Dr. Hans Jakob
Schindler
Following a career with the federal government of Germany from 2001 to 2011, within the private sector from 2011 to 2013 and as a member and Coordinator of the ISIL, Al-Qaida and Taliban Monitoring Team of the United Nations Security Council until 2018, Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler currently serves as the Senior Director of the Counter Extremism Project (CEP).
In addition, he chairs the advisory board of BerFin Advisory, is a member of the Berlin Anti-Financial Crime Forum and chairs an UNODC-GPML project bringing together financial investigators from government authorities focusing on combatting the financing of violent extremism.
He also serves as the co-chair of the Advisory Board of the Global Diplomatic Forum (GDF) in London, is a member of the international advisory board of the Global Counter Terrorism Council (GCTC) in India, a member of the Board of Directors of Compliance and Capacity Skills International (CCSI) in New York and London, and a teaching fellow at the academy for Security in the Economy (ASW Akademie AG) in Essen. Having studied in Tübingen, at Georgetown in Washington D.C. and Tel Aviv, he holds a Master’s and PhD degree in International Terrorism from St. Andrews University.