International security
Humanitarian and crisis issues
Refugees and Migration
Cities
Disinformation - risk management
Intelligence
Terrorism
The Soufan Center
Jane’s Intelligence Review
International Rescue Committee
International Crisis Group
Global Interagency Security Forum
IHS Markit
Western Hemisphere Drug Commission
I currently work as a senior security and political officer for ClientEarth, an environmental NGO based from its London office, where I share responsibilities for managing global security. My work involves working with lawyers on high risk matters, crisis management, and enterprise risk management. Prior to this position I did a consultancy with Medical Aid for Palestinians to design their crisis management policy prior to the start of the Gaza-Israel conflict. My second book AI Security Imperative was published over the summer.
Prior to returning to London in 2022, I worked on a variety of security, humanitarian preparedness, conflict risk and with several leading consultancies, which included with the International Monetary Fund embedded during the Arab Spring as a security advisor for the wider Middle East, working within the International Rescue Committee’s emergency unit and as an Associate Director with Veracity Worldwide.
My first book Crisis Readiness is available for purchase on Amazon and received reviews from several leading experts within the insurance, corporate security and climate risk management space. My second book the AI Security Imperative was published in summer 2025 and is available to purchase on Amazon.
I have spoken as an expert security analyst on an array of international media outlets in addition to speaking at an array of events including at Freshfields on Shadow AI risks; for the New York Analysts’ Roundatable on emerging risk trends based on work I did for a humanitarian organisation, and at various large institutions in Washington, DC. I have an ongoing interest in improving humanitarian security and have published on this topic extensively for the Global Interagency Security Forum.
To accompany my professional experience, I have published widely including extensively for Janes Intelligence Review, various leading US think tanks, and Foreign Policy Magazine. I was fortunate enough to be asked to write Chapter 5 for the Western Hemisphere Drug Commission, which went to the US Congress on December 1 2020: https://democrats-foreignaffairs.house.gov/2020/12/engel-releases-western-hemisphere-drug-policy-commission-report.
Among my most prominent work was looking into fentanyl smuggling across the US border from Tijuana, conducting research into far-right extremism and work on cartels, along with the drivers of migration, from El Salvador and Guatemala.
Prior to moving to Washington DC in 2012, I worked for five years with the security and risk arm of The Risk Advisory Group, which included with an array of large multinational companies and the insurance company, Aon.
The majority of my articles are categorised in the article section of the following page. But a selection of higher-profile pieces are detailed below.
Please contact me for speaking enquiries related to AI and security; climate change and emerging risks, and emerging security risks.
My company website, which I maintain in addition to my full-time position at ClientEarth, is www.nextgenrisk.org
“After losing everything, we simply have no energy left to fight the disease,” said an 11 year-old boy in a displacement camp in Idlib, Syria. (full story in the new project: Through the Lens of Crisis: COVID-19 and the People on the Frontlines of Conflict, The Soufan Center)
As we have seen over recent weeks, the impact of Covid-19 has caused unprecedented disruption, deaths, and confusion in developed countries. (full story: New Security Beat, Wilson Center)
By working collectively and innovatively, the region can prevent the next security and humanitarian disaster. (full story: Foreign Policy)
All across Latin America, leaders are targeting the reduction of organized crime as a key objective for their terms in power. But how important are state-level policies versus what’s being done at the local level? (full story: Just Security)
Following political events in Syria and Turkey over recent weeks, the 2016 Turkey-EU refugee deal is deeply unstable, which is unsurprising given that Turkey was already hosting 4.1 million refugees. (full story: Devex)
The Mexican government accepted the US proposal to become the wall, border patrol, and waiting room for asylum seekers. (full story: The New Humanitarian)
New arrivals are ticking up again, but Europe doesn’t even have a short-term plan in place—much less a long-term strategy. (full story: Foreign Policy)
“The authorities didn’t believe coronavirus existed at all in Yemen, even though the virus was spreading exponentially, and deaths cases were surging…” (Through the Lens of Crisis: COVID-19 and the People on the Frontlines of Conflict, The Soufan Center)