Director of the World Terror Watch Service and Database at the European Strategic Intelligence and Security Centre in Brussels, where he specialises in international security, geopolitics and terrorism.
Visiting Fellow at the University of Glasgow, where he lectures on security scenarios in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Sahel, with a specific focus on international actors and armed groups active in the region.
He contributes to specialist journals and international media, writing on foreign affairs, jihadist terrorism and far-right terrorism.