Andrew Staniforth is the Director of Innovation at SAHER Europe, a security research and training consultancy operating globally. As an international security and innovation expert with extensive operational experience in counter-terrorism gained as a counter-terrorism police detective, he has supported missions for the United Nations Terrorism Prevention Branch. As a Senior Research Fellow and guest lecturer, he has held academic positions at leading research institutes and is the author, co-author, editor, and co-publisher of 12 books, including the Blackstone’s Counter-Terrorism Handbook published by Oxford University Press. Andrew is the coordinator of the Tech Against Terrorism Europe (TATE) project, supported by the European Union’s Internal Security Fund.