Suzanne Raine

Affiliated Lecturer at Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS), University of Cambridge

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Affiliate Lecturer, University of Cambridge

Suzanne Raine is an Affiliate Lecturer at the Centre for Geopolitics, University of Cambridge, and a Visiting Professor at the Department of War Studies, King's College London. She worked for 24 years in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on foreign policy and national security issues. This included postings in Poland, Iraq and Pakistan. She specialised in counter-terrorism, holding a number of senior domestic appointments including Head of the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre from 2015-2017 and Director Counter Terrorism from 2017-19. She was also a senior member of the UK government assessment community. Suzanne has an MA in History from Cambridge.

Her current academic interests are in the history and evolution of counter terrorism and the interaction between counter terrorist and other geopolitical interests in policy-making. She is also interested in the structures and practice of UK government analysis and its contribution to policy-making.

She is a Trustee at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), the Imperial War Museum (IWM) and at Stop the Traffik, a charity aiming to disrupt human trafficking worldwide

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    Government data, science and evidence: national security

    In CSaP’s first Policy Fellow seminar on the government's use of data, science and evidence we welcomed Suzanne Raine, Affiliate Lecturer at the Centre for Geopolitics, University of Cambridge. Suzanne asked the question: “What is the role of evidence in risk management, anticipation and warning?” and drew on her experience leading the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre, looking at wider lessons for governments.