Jolene Jerard's Bio

Jolene Jerard is an Associate Research Fellow and Manager of the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research (ICPVTR), one of the largest counter terrorism research and training centres in the world. She is a specialist on terrorist and extremist groups in Asia.

She holds a Masters of Science in Strategic Studies with a Certificate in Terrorism Studies from the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and was a Visiting Research
Fellow at the Centre for Conflict and Peace Studies, Kabul. She has done work in several threat zones including Southern Thailand, Southern Philippines, Afghanistan, Bangladesh (Chittagong Hill Tracts), Iraq, Yemen and Libya. Her work at the centre focuses on terrorist and extremist groups. In that connection she interviewed leaders and members of threat groups including politico-religious and ethno-nationalist groups.