Dr Hans Jakob Schindler

Presentation in the European Parliament conference 'Extremist Networks and European Security', March 5 2025, organised by IMPAC aisbl and Bert-Jan Ruissen MEP (ECR), Malik Azmani MEP (Renew), Hannes Heide MEP (S&D) and Antonio López-Istúriz White MEP (EPP).

Dr Hans-Jakob Schindler
Dr Schindler is the Senior Director of the Counter Extremism Project in New York and Berlin and the Auschwitz Research Center on Hate, Extremism and Radicalization (ARCHER) at House 88 in Poland. He is also the co-chair of the Advisory Board of the Global Diplomatic Forum (GDF) in London, a member of the international advisory board of the Global Counter Terrorism Council (GCTC) in India, chairs a UNDOC-GPML project for financial investigators focusing on the financing of extremism and is teaching fellow at the Academy for Security in the Economy (ASW Akademie AG) in Essen, Germany. Between 2013 and 2018 he served as the Coordinator and Expert of the ISIL (Da’esh)/ Al -Qaida/Taliban Sanctions Monitoring Team as mandated by the United Nations Security Council. From 2011 and 2013 he worked as Program Director of the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) in London (UK) and as Associate Partner for Political Risk at West Sands, London (UK). Prior to these engagements, Dr Schindler served as First Secretary for Political Affairs and Liaison Officer to the Security Forces at the Germany Embassy in Tehran (Iran) between 2005 and 2011 and held other positions with the Federal Government of Germany related to conflict analysis and counter-terrorism since 2001.