David Wells is a global security consultant and an Honorary Research Associate at Swansea University’s Cyber Threats Research Centre. His work focuses on developing responses to emerging terrorism challenges, with a focus on the relationship between new technologies and terrorism and counter-terrorism.
Between 2017 and 2022, he was Head of Research and Analysis at the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Directorate in New York, monitoring terrorism trends for the Counter-Terrorism Committee of the Security Council. David began his career coordinating international counter-terrorism investigations for the United Kingdom’s intelligence agency GCHQ, and subsequently worked for multiple agencies in the Australian intelligence community in a variety of practitioner and policy roles.
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