Emily Dyer and Olivier Guitta

Researcher, Director of Research, Henry Jackson Society

Emily Dyer joined the Henry Jackson Society as a researcher in January 2012. She is currently researching women’s rights in Egypt having recently returned from Cairo. Prior to that she co-authored <i>Al-Qaeda in the United States: A Complete Analysis of Terrorism Offenses</i> and helped present its findings to policy makers on various platforms, including British parliament, the White House and the National Counterterrorism Center. Emily previously worked as a Higher Executive Officer for the Preventing Extremism Unit at the Department for Education, where she wrote several papers on extremism within educational settings. <br /> <br /> Olivier Guitta is the Director of Research at the Henry Jackson Society, responsible for setting the strategic agenda for the research department and overseeing the Society’s academic focus, as well as conducting his own research on geopolitics in the MENA region. He is an expert on security and counter-terrorism, having briefed the European Union, the United States Congress and NATO, as well as US presidential candidates, SOCOM and Europol. He is a regular speaker at international security conferences and has lectured at the National Defense University and the Joint Special Operations University.