Munira Mustaffa
Munira Mustaffa, the founder, Executive Director, and principal consultant of Chasseur Group, has more than a decade of extensive experience in private, public, and military security sectors. She is a non-resident fellow at the New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy, a Washington DC-based policy think tank, a recipient of the 2023 visiting fellowship to the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT) The Hague, and a fellow at Verve Research, an independent research collective focusing on military-society relations in the Indo-Pacific region's political development. Her work primarily identifies and analyses non-traditional security challenges, including terrorism, extremism, paramilitary organisations, and media and information warfare. She holds a master's degree from University College London (UCL) in the United Kingdom.
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