Edwin Bakker

Edwin Bakker is a professor of (Counter-)Terrorism Studies at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs at Leiden University and a fellow at the International Centre for Counter Terrorism – The Hague. Prior to his tenure at Leiden, he was a fellow at the Netherlands Institute of International Relations ‘Clingendael,’ where he led the Clingendael Security and Conflict Programme. Bakker graduated from Groningen University with a degree in Economic Geography and earned his PhD in 1997 with a thesis on minority conflicts in Slovakia and Hungary. His research interests encompass radicalization processes, jihadi terrorism, foreign fighters, unconventional security threats, and crisis/terrorism impact management