Board Members

Simon Ball is a Chartered Security Professional (CSyP) specialising in threat, risk, and crisis management. He provides training and advice to both public and private sector clients.

With 30 years’ policing experience in Northern Ireland, Simon has developed expertise in the fields of public order and public safety, personnel security, information security, change management, and corporate governance. Most recently, he served as a Detective Chief Inspector with the Intelligence Branch (C3) of the Police Service of Northern Ireland.

Simon is an Expert on Crime and Terrorism with the EU Commission. He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Strategic Risk Management (F.ISRM) and a Member of the Security Institute (MSyI). In addition to serving as Chair of the Board of the International Association for Intelligence Education (IAFIE) Europe, he also serves on the Education Practices Committee of IAFIE Global.

Simon’s academic experience includes a BA (Hons.) in Psychology, where he focused on social identity theory and intergroup conflict. He has a MA in Intelligence & Security, with his dissertation examining how the approach to tackling violent extremism can be informed by the Northern Ireland experience, and a MSc in Police Leadership & Management, where he studied the fear of crime. He holds certifications in information and cyber security. His academic research interests are:

• Enhancing public safety through more effective use of intelligence and information technology, particularly in preventing targeted violence; and

• Developing evidence-based approaches to preventing violent extremism, with an emphasis on understanding the mechanisms of radicalisation.

Simon is a qualified Mountain Leader and a passionate volunteer with Autism NI, leading fundraising mountain events for the charity since 2009.

I am a Lecturer in Intelligence and Security in the School of History, Politics and International Relations (HyPIR) at the University of Leicester. I am also Co-Director of Distance Learning for HyPIR. Before becoming a full-time academic I worked in the private security sector as an intelligence analyst and intelligence manager for 10 years, and served in the Intelligence Corps in the British Army and the West Midlands Police Force. I hold a BA (Hons) Degree in War Studies with Politics, and Ph.D., both awarded by the University of Wolverhampton. My Ph.D. thesis was an analysis of the origins and implementation of the US Marine Corps counterinsurgency strategy in Vietnam.

My recent publications include: Spreading Ink Blots from Da Nang to the DMZ: An Analysis of the US Marine Corps Strategy in Vietnam, a monograph published by Helion in 2020; ‘Intelligence and the Russo-Ukrainian War: Introduction to the Special Issue’ (co-authored with Mark Phythian) in Intelligence and National Security (available online in advance of publication); ‘Developing Theory on the Use of Intelligence by Non-State Actors: Five Case Studies on Insurgent Intelligence’, in Intelligence and National Security, Vol 34, No 7, December 2019; ‘The Use of Intelligence by Insurgent Groups: the North Vietnamese in the Second Indochina War as a Case Study’, in Intelligence and National Security, Vol 34, No 7, December 2019; ‘The Who, What, Why, and How of Teaching Intelligence: The Leicester Approach’ (co-authored with Mark Phythian and Helen Dexter), in Intelligence and National Security, Vol. 32, No. 7, June 2017. My current research interests are strategic intelligence, military intelligence, and the role of intelligence in assessing risk and uncertainty.

I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Association, a Fellow of the Institute of Strategic Risk Management, and a Member of the Security Institute of Ireland. I am on the editorial boards of the Journal of Policing, Intelligence, and Counterterrorism, Journal of Security, Intelligence, and Resilience Education, and Intelligence and National Security, and I am a board member of the Europe Chapter of the International Association for Intelligence Education (IAFIE). I am also the IAFIE Regional Director for Europe, and my duties include outreach and membership recruitment. I previously served on the IAFIE Board as the Vice President (International) and as a member of the Governance Committee. In 2018 I organised and hosted the IAFIE Europe Chapter Annual Conference at the University of Leicester.

Raffaele Magurano is an Italian author in Social Sciences and Criminology, working for the Italian Public Administration in the Law Enforcement field, actively seeking for new opportunities. He is a Police Tactics & Techniques Instructor and IPA member, also actively researching in Neurosophy, an experimental branch of Neurosciences.

Prior to being professionally involved in the public sector, he has been a consultant operating in Italy and Romania, building business relations with Middle East and North-American companies. After graduating in Law, he completed two Master degrees in Jurisprudence and Public Administration & Safety and a Master Programme in Forensic Criminology, cultivating at the same time great interest in Intelligence, which has led him joining IAFIE in 2022.

Jeremy spent 30 years working with intelligence in the government sector – collecting it, processing it, analysing it, and communicating it to decision makers.

Since 2012 he has taught military and civilian students throughout Europe and North America about the business of intelligence analysis; how to inspire creativity, structure analytical thought, solve complex problems, and communicate analytic results. Now operating as Questimation, his mission is to train others how to use these intelligence methodologies and help organisations perform better analysis and make better decisions.

Dr. Anastasios-Nikolaos Kanellopoulos is a Senior Intelligence Executive with 13+ years of experience in Counterintelligence, Counterterrorism and Business Intelligence.

He combines operational law enforcement expertise with advanced academic training, holding a PhD in Competitive Intelligence and Counterintelligence, an MSc in Intelligence, Security, International Relations, and Strategy, a BA in Business Administration and Management and a BSc in Homeland Security and Policing.

He also serves as a member of the CT Travel Pool of Experts at the United Nations Office of Counterterrorism (UNOCT), the International Propeller Club of the United States and the Hellenic Institute for Strategic Studies (HELISS).