Tom Parker has spent the past three years as a European Union-sponsored adviser to the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) in Baghdad, Iraq, prior to which he served as a Counter-Terrorism Strategist at the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Centre (UNCCT) and as the Adviser on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism to the United Nations Counter Terrorism Implementation Task Force (CTITF), where he co-authored the Secretary-General’s Plan of Action to Prevent Violent Extremism. Over the past decade Tom has worked extensively as a consultant on post-conflict justice, security sector reform, and counter-terrorism projects around the world, including assignments in Chad, Colombia, Georgia, Guatemala, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Mexico, Nepal, Peru, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Thailand, Uganda and Ukraine. He has also served as the Policy Director for Terrorism, Counterterrorism and Human Rights for Amnesty International USA, as the Special Adviser on Transitional Justice to the Coalition Provisional Authority, as a war crimes investigator with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in both Bosnia and Kosovo, and as an Intelligence Officer in the British Security Service (MI5).Tom has taught courses on international terrorism as an adjunct professor at Bard College, the National Defense University at Fort Bragg, Yale University, and John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He is also a member of the adjunct faculty of the Defense Institute for International Legal Studies (DIILS) and has been an occasional lecturer at the Joint Special Operations University (JSOU). He is a graduate of the London School of Economics, the University of Leiden, and Brown, and has held research fellowships at Yale and Duke universities.