Dr. Ghayda Hassan
Founder and Director of the Canadian Practitioners Network for the Prevention of Radicalization and Extremist Violence; Full Professor of Clinical Psychology, Université du Québec à Montréal
Dr. Ghayda Hassan is a clinical psychologist and professor of clinical psychology at UQÀM. She has a number of research, clinical, and community-based national and international affiliations. She is the director of the Canada Practitioners Network for the Prevention of Radicalization and Extremist Violence (CPN-PREV). She also is a UNESCO co-chair on Prevention of Violence Radicalization, as well as a researcher and clinical consultant at the SHERPA-RAPS team and the CIUSSS-CODIM. She is a researcher, clinician, as well as a policy consultant in matters of interventions in the context of violence (radicalization, family violence, and war).
Dr. Cécile Rousseau, MD
Full Professor of Social and Cultural Psychiatry, McGill University; Scientific Director of SHERPA, the Research Institute of the CIUSSS West-Central Montreal/The Polarization Clinic
Dr. Cécile Rousseau, MD, is professor at McGill University Division of Social and Cultural Psychiatry and holds a Canada Research Chair in the prevention of violent radicalization. She is also the Scientific Director of SHERPA, the Research Institute of CIUSSS West-Central Montreal/The Polarization Clinic. She has worked extensively with immigrant and refugee communities, developing specific school based interventions and leading policy oriented research. Presently her research focuses on intervention and prevention programs to address social polarization and violent radicalization.
Dr. Michael King
Director of Research, Evolve, Organization for the Prevention of Violence, Edmonton
Dr. Michael King is Director of Research at the Organization for the Prevention of Violence (OPV). He is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto as well as a sessional lecturer at the University of Calgary. He held several positions in the field of counterterrorism within the Government of Canada; most recently as Senior Research Advisor at the Canada Centre for Community Engagement and Prevention of Violence. He completed his PhD in social psychology from McGill University, where he researched how individuals legitimize the use of terrorism.