Joana Cook
Project Lead, Terrorism & Ungoverned Spaces
Dr. Joana Cook is an Assistant Professor of Terrorism and Political Violence at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA), Leiden University (Netherlands), a Senior Project Coordinator/Editor in Chief at the International Centre for Counterterrorism (ICCT, Netherlands), and an Adjunct Lecturer at Johns Hopkins University (US). Her research focuses primarily on terrorism and counterterrorism, with a specialisation in the roles of women, children, and gender dynamics. More recently, she has also focused on non-state actor governance.
Her first book, ‘A Woman’s Place: U.S. Counterterrorism Since 9/11’ was published in 2019 with Hurst Publishers, and 2020 with Oxford University Press (softcover forthcoming). She is currently co-editing a volume on Islamist Governance (both state and non-state actors) with Dr. Shiraz Maher (Hurst 2022). She has published numerous academic and policy publications on security, counterterrorism and human security published which you can find on her website.
Previously, she was a Senior Research Fellow with the International Centre for the Study of Radicalization (ICSR) at King’s College London. She has additionally worked on an ad-hoc basis with organisations such as the Independent Commission for Aid Impact (UK), the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Public Safety Canada, Moonshot CVE and Saferworld, amongst others. In another life, she was an international journalist who focused on mining. She received both her PhD and MA from the Department of War Studies, King’s College London, UK, and her BA from the University of Regina, Canada.
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