Hybrid Warfare as a Cross-Disciplinary Imperative

 January 30 – 31, 2026 

Hybrid Warfare as a Cross-Disciplinary Imperative

January 30 - 31, 2026

Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University

This conference is designed to foster cross-disciplinary collaboration by examining who different research and practice fields – law, business, policy, technology, conflict resolution, and beyond – intersect through the lens of hybrid warfare. Our goal is to foster structured exchanges between experts on the topic of hybrid warfare, generate academic work and teaching tools, and lay the foundation for future publications and training.

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Key information

  • January 30 - 31, 2026
  • Conference location:
    Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, ASU
    111 East Taylor Street, Phoenix, AZ 85004
  • Hotel location:
    Hampton Inn
    77 E Polk St, Phoenix, AZ 85004

Conference participants

Lilian Alessa

President’s Professor and Director at the University of Idaho

Dr. Lilian “Doc” Alessa’s federal service includes serving as a Defense Intelligence Senior Level Special Advisor to the Office of the Director for National Intelligence, Arctic Advisor to the Pentagon, Chief Scientist (J5) United States Special Operations Command and Deputy Chief of Global Strategies with the Department of Homeland Security. When she is not serving as a federal detailee, she holds the rank of President’s Professor and Director, at the University of Idaho. She has published over 150 peer reviewed papers in the unclassified domain alone and developed capabilities that incorporate local and place-based knowledge for improved environmental awareness around the world. An internationally recognized expert in Arctic science, intelligence, early warning systems and rural regions, she sits on several national committees such as the Defense Science Board, and the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. She is the recipient of the Governor General’s Award in Canada as well as numerous other academic and governmental awards in the United States. She and her teams have developed strategic intelligence frameworks and tools that have been adopted by agencies in both the United States and Canada. She holds courtesy appointments with Arizona State University and George Mason University.

Cynthia Alkon​

Cynthia Alkon

Professor of Law and Director of the Criminal Law, Justice & Policy Program at Texas A&M University School of Law

Cynthia Alkon is a Professor of Law and Director of the Criminal Law, Justice & Policy Program at Texas A&M University School of Law. She is a Senior Fellow and Steering Committee Member of the Council on Countering Hybrid Warfare. Her scholarship addresses hybrid warfare, comparative criminal procedure, and dispute resolution in the criminal legal system, with a focus on plea bargaining. Professor Alkon is the co-author, with Andrea Kupfer Schneider, of Negotiating Crime: Plea Bargaining, Problem Solving, and Dispute Resolution in the Criminal Context. In 2024, she developed and taught an interdisciplinary course on Conflict Management and Hybrid Warfare. In Spring/Summer 2026, she will co-teach a course on Energy Security and Hybrid Warfare with Professor Guillermo Sanchez Garcia. Before entering academia, Professor Alkon served as a deputy public defender in Los Angeles County and held senior rule-of-law positions with the American Bar Association (in Belarus) and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) (in Albania), and at the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, where she oversaw criminal justice reform projects across Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Eastern Europe.

Adrian Borbely

Adrian Borbely

Professor of Negotiations at emlyon business school

Adrian Borbely is a Professor of Negotiation at emlyon business school in France. A litigation lawyer by training, he has been teaching and developing negotiation theory and pedagogy for over 15 years. He is a trained mediator, an entrepreneur, and an administrator of the French Non-Profit Organization PRONEGO-DBS, which gathers negotiation and conflict management practitioners, trainers and theoreticians. He has been interested in hybrid warfare for a few years and is a founding member of the Council for Countering Hybrid Warfare. He is the editor of Hybrid Warfare, a collection of scenarios, DRI Press.

Michael Burstein

Professor of Law at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law

Michael J. Burstein teaches and writes about intellectual property, innovation policy, and law and entrepreneurship. He served as Vice Dean of the Law School from 2018-2023. Professor Burstein’s research focuses on the how law influences the direction of innovation, collaboration and co-creation in innovative and creative ecosystems, innovation and geopolitics, and the law and political economy of innovation. His academic work draws on legal and qualitative empirical tools to address the ways in which intellectual property law, corporate law, and public law facilitate relationships among entrepreneurs and creatives, markets, and government actors and influence the production and dissemination of innovative works and ideas. His previous publications include articles about patent markets, innovation prizes, and non-IP strategies for information exchange. From 2016-208, Professor Burstein served as the Knowledge Lead of the Growth Technology practice at McKinsey & Company, the global management consultancy, where he oversaw the Firm’s research into tech startups, venture capital, and innovation ecosystems. Professor Burstein joined the Cardozo faculty in 2011. He previously was a Climenko Fellow at Harvard Law School, an appellate litigator in private practice in Washington, DC, a Bristow Fellow in the Office of the Solicitor General, U.S. Department of Justice, and a law clerk for Judge A. Raymond Randolph of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Professor Burstein holds a J.D., magna cum laude, from the New York University School of Law and a B.A. in Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry and Ethics, Politics & Economics from Yale University.

Andrea Cayley

Professor of Practice and Executive Director, Center for Law and Global Affairs, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law

Andrea Matačić Cayley, J.D., Ph.D., is the Executive Director of the Center for Law and Global Affairs at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. She has over 20 years of experience as a war crimes prosecutor at the ICTY and the ECCC. Andrea serves on the Atrocity Crimes Advisory Group for Ukraine, advises NATO on protecting cultural property, and is part of the OSCE Heritage Crime Task Force. She co-founded the Heritage Warfare Consortium and was elected co-chair of ASIL’s Transitional Justice and Rule of Law Interest Group. She holds degrees from Columbia University, the University of Zagreb, Temple University, and Leiden University.

Calvin W. Chrustie​

Calvin W. Chrustie

Senior Partner and Critical Risk Consultant at the Critical Risk Team

Calvin W. Chrustie is a Senior Partner and Critical Risk Consultant with more than three decades of global experience managing crises, complex investigations, and high-stakes conflicts and negotiations across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Americas, and Asia. A former senior operations officer with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and a United Nations peacekeeping veteran, Calvin led international investigations into transnational organized crime and served as Team Leader of Canada’s International Negotiators Team, specializing in terrorist kidnappings and extortion. He is a graduate of the FBI and Scotland Yard hostage negotiation programs and holds two Bachelor’s degrees, an LL.M. in Dispute Resolution, and Harvard University’s Executive Program in Cybersecurity. Calvin is a Founder of the Critical Risk Team, advising corporate and government clients worldwide on security, intelligence, and strategic risk from his base in Vancouver, Canada. He currently serves as a Senior Director with the Council on Countering Hybrid Warfare and is the co-founder and co-host of Security Disruptors—an online global security program illuminating modern threat actors, hybrid threats, and geopolitical risk, while supporting allied collaboration in the information space.

Deven Desai

Deven Desai

Sue and John Staton Professor of Business Law and Ethics, Georgia Institute of Technology Scheller College of Business; Associate Director for Law, Policy, and Ethics, Machine Learning Center, Georgia Institute of Technology

Deven Desai is the Sue and John Staton Professor of Business Law and Ethics at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Scheller College of Business and the Associate Director for Law, Policy, and Ethics for ML@GATECH. He was Academic Research Counsel at Google, Inc., and a Visiting Fellow at Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy. Professor Desai has been writing about computer science, AI, and the law since 2009. His scholarship examines how business, science, and economic theories shape privacy, technology, competition, and intellectual property law and either explain productivity or fail to capture society’s interest in freedom and development.

Atiba Ellis

Atiba Ellis

Associate Dean for Enrichment and Engagement, Distinguished Research Scholar, and Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Atiba R. Ellis is the Laura B. Chisolm Distinguished Research Scholar, Associate Dean for Enrichment and Engagement, and Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University School of Law. A nationally noted voting rights scholar, his primary research focuses on how racial and class-based oppression interact continues to abridge and deny the right to vote to communities on the margins of American democracy. His work has analyzed voter identification laws for their socioeconomic effects, situated felon disenfranchisement laws as enforcing a political underclass, analyzed the theoretical scope of the Citizens United decision and described the ideological drivers of vote suppression. His work is interdisciplinary in nature, spanning doctrinal legal analysis, critical political theory, race and the law, legal history, and innovative legal pedagogy.

Janice Fischer

Janice Fischer

Council on Countering Hybrid Warfare, Senior Director and Steering Committee Member, Corporate Sector Engagement at Critical Risk Team

Janice Fischer is a Transformation Executive and cybersecurity leader specializing in enterprise resilience, hybrid threat response, and operational risk. As Principal and Founder of Fiscenzie Solutions, she advises enterprise clients on transformation strategy and execution, M&A integration, and operational resilience across technology and financial services sectors. A Critical Risk Team Associate and Senior Director on the Council on Countering Hybrid Warfare, Janice provides cross-sector cyber and geopolitical insights to government, intelligence, and commercial clients. Her 25+ years of experience includes serving as Global CISO for IBM Cloud, where she built security frameworks enabling competition in regulated industries and deployed critical infrastructure across five continents. She holds a B.Sc. from the University of Waterloo and a Post Graduate Diploma in Business from Wilfrid Laurier University.

Guillermo J. Garcia-Sanchez

Guillermo J. Garcia-Sanchez

Professor at Texas A&M University School of Law

Guillermo J. Garcia-Sanchez is a Professor at Texas A&M University School of Law, currently Senior Fellow at Sciences Po Law School. His research and teaching focus on international energy governance and dispute resolution. He has published in leading law reviews and edited volumes with Oxford and Edward Elgar. He serves as Co-Chair of ASIL’s International Economic Law Interest Group and as a U.S. representative to the ILA’s Committee on ADR in International Law. He holds advanced degrees from Harvard Law School (S.J.D) and the Fletcher School (LL.M.), and dual B.A.s in Law and International Relations from ITAM. Before entering academia, he practiced international arbitration and advised Mexico’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Matthew Gaske

Matthew Gaske

Assistant Professor of Business Law & Ethics at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business

Matthew Gaske is an Assistant Professor of Business Law & Ethics at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business. His professional experience includes mergers and acquisitions consulting and bankruptcy litigation. His research focuses on public governance of novel technologies, particularly commercialized AI tools.

Amos N. Guiora

Amos N. Guiora

Professor (Lecturer) at the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah

Amos N. Guiora, S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah, directs the Bystander Initiative, https://www.law.utah.edu/bystander-initiative/. For the past 10 years, Guiora has researched bystanders and enablers; his books include, The Crime of Complicity: The Bystander in the Holocaust, Armies of Enablers: Survivor Stories of Complicity and Betrayal in Sexual Assaults, The Complicity of Silence: Confronting Ecosystems of Child Sexual Abuse in Schools, and a forthcoming book, Enablers: Normalizing the Unimaginable. 

Wes E. Henricksen

Wes E. Henricksen

Associate Professor of Law at Barry University School of Law

Wes Henricksen is an Associate Professor at Barry University School of Law. He writes and teaches about constitutional law, with a focus on free speech protections under the First Amendment. He is the author of the book In Fraud We Trust, which was awarded the 2025 Book Award by Scribes—the American Society of Legal Writers.

Art Hinshaw

Associate Dean for Experiential Learning; Clinical Professor of Law at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law

Art Hinshaw is the Associate Dean for Experiential Learning, the John J. Bouma Fellow in ADR, Director of the Lodestar Dispute Resolution Program, and a Clinical Professor of Law at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at ASU. His scholarship bridges dispute resolution theory and practice, producing four books and more than thirty articles and chapters. He is a four-time recipient of CPR awards from the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution, including the 2024 and 2017 Best Professional Article Awards and the 2021 Best Book Award. Active nationally in the dispute resolution community, Dean Hinshaw also serves on numerous academic and professional committees and is a regular contributor to Indisputably, the ADR law professors’ blog.

Miron Kaufman

Miron Kaufman

Professor Emeritus at Cleveland State University

Miron Kaufman joined Cleveland State University in 1985. He has served as department chair for 12 years, and became Professor Emeritus in 2021. His research contributions to understanding complex social systems have accrued a significant number of academic citations. Kaufman’s research draws on interdisciplinary collaborations with physicists, social scientists, and engineers.  He has applied physics concepts to cognitive science, health science, urban studies, and geography. He developed models of multi-group social conflicts to generate scenarios of collective attitudes and conflict dynamics.  Recently he applied statistical mechanics models to political polarization and election dynamics.

Sanda Kaufman

Sanda Kaufman

Professor Emerita of Planning, Public Policy and Administration at Cleveland State University

Sanda Kaufman is Professor Emerita of Planning, Public Policy and Administration, Cleveland State University. She is member of the Council on Countering Hybrid Warfare. She holds degrees in Architecture, Urban Planning, and Public Policy Analysis; she is also a trained mediator. Her research spans negotiations in public conflicts; dynamic modeling of conflicts and of social polarization; hybrid warfare; social-environmental systems resilience; disaster preparedness; and negotiation pedagogy. She conducts interdisciplinary research with scholars in law, political science, sociology, management, statistics, physics, and geography. She has published articles on hybrid warfare, environmental, planning, public policy, labor, and international conflicts, and agent-based modeling of elections and of polarization. Her recent research explores the dynamic generation of anticipatory scenarios in various complex contexts, to enable addressing “wicked problems” and for strategizing in conflict management.

David Kliemann

Head of Cloud Risk at IBM Cloud

Dave Kliemann is the Head of Cloud Risk for the IBM Cloud. He drives the IBM Cloud risk management posture ensuring key hybrid cloud & AI cybersecurity risks and regulatory requirements are managed.  Dave also provides support helping clients in regulated industries take a risk-centric approach to their digital transformation. Prior to joining IBM, Dave held several cybersecurity roles at Fiserv, a Fortune 500 Fintech, leading Cyber Risk, Cyber Threat Intelligence, Security Monitoring/Threat Hunting, and IT Audit Programs.  Dave was also a 20-year U.S. Naval Officer, which included leading Information Operations and Cybersecurity teams.  He currently is an adjunct instructor teaching cybersecurity at Marquette University and an advisory board member of MU’s Center for Cybersecurity Awareness and Cyber Defense.

Denis Leclerc​

Denis Leclerc

Clinical Associate Professor at the Thunderbird School of Global Management

Denis Leclerc teaches cross-cultural communication and global negotiation at Thunderbird School of Global Management. His work focuses on intercultural competence and executive education, and he has directed custom programs for organizations such as Raytheon, Novartis, and Medtronic. A frequent consultant and keynote speaker, he has worked with companies including American Express and ExxonMobil. His research appears in leading intercultural communication journals. Originally from Normandy, France, he holds graduate degrees from Arizona State University and a doctorate in cross-cultural communication, and he has earned multiple teaching awards from Thunderbird’s MBA and Executive MBA students.

Irina S. Litchfield

Chief Investment Officer at Aureum Alliance Capital and Principal at Lumeria

Irina S. Litchfield is the Chief Investment Officer of Aureum Alliance Capital and Principal of Lumeria, where she focuses on frontier, dual-use, and defense-aligned space and technology innovation. She also serves as Chairwoman of the Quantum Standards & Implementation Institute, advancing cross-industry frameworks for emerging technologies. A published author in the Space Force Association’s journal, Irina holds an Executive Masters in Space Business and Policy and works at the intersection of space, quantum systems, and innovation finance—bringing a cross-disciplinary technology perspective aligned with the conference’s focus on hybrid warfare.

Matt Malone

Matt Malone

Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law

Professor Malone is an Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law. He is also the founder of the Open by Default project. Called to the bar in British Columbia, California, and New York, he is a graduate of the University of Toronto, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and McGill University. 

Scott A. McGregor​

Scott A. McGregor

Senior Fellow/Security Advisor at Council on Countering Hybrid Warfare; Senior Fellow at Frontier Centre on Public Policy; Managing Partner at Close hold Intelligence Consulting

Scott A. McGregor, CD, BCom, LL.M, DBA Candidate is a Canadian intelligence and national security professional specialising in hybrid threats, illicit finance, and transnational organised crime–national security convergence. He is the Managing Partner and Principal of Close Hold Intelligence Consulting Ltd. and serves as a Senior Fellow and Security Advisor with the Council on Countering Hybrid Warfare, and as a Senior Fellow with Frontier Centre for Public Policy. His background includes senior intelligence roles supporting public sector and law enforcement decision making, with experience assessing threat finance, influence operations, insider risk, and economic coercion. Scott is also a doctoral researcher examining how private sector firms strengthen governance, risk management, and resilience in the face of state sponsored hybrid activity. He is the co-author of The Mosaic Effect: How the Chinese Communist Party Started a Hybrid War in America’s Backyard.

Sean K. Moon

Retired Civil Servant and U.S. Coast Guard Officer

Sean Moon is a retired civil servant and U.S. Coast Guard officer. His final federal position was Chief of Global Strategies in the United States Department of Homeland Security Office of Strategy, Policy, and Plans. Prior to that, he served as the Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Borders, Immigration, and Trade, as the Director, Transportation and Cargo Security, and as a Senior Policy Advisor (Maritime). Among other projects, he led development of policies and strategies for Arctic security, the DHS Small Vessel Security Strategy, the National Strategy for Global Supply Chain Security, and the DHS Northern Border Strategy. Between 2011 and 2016, he chaired the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Sub-group for Maritime Security, both developing U.S. policies and facilitating global and regional integration amongst the 21 member economies. Between 2021 and 2022 he served on a rotational assignment to the Department of Defense as a Special Advisor to the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy.  Over the course of his 20-year Coast Guard service, he specialized in port operations and emergency management, conducting and supervising commercial and passenger vessel and facility safety and security programs, waterways management programs, and oil/hazardous materials and natural disaster response operations. His final Coast Guard tour was on detached duty to DHS, a position that the Department made permanent in 2009. Mr. Moon is an Excellence in Government Senior Fellow and a Certified Port Executive/member of the International Association of Maritime & Port Executives.

Dr. Anjanette Raymond

Anjanette Raymond

Professor of Business Law and Ethics; Director of the Program on Data Management and Information Governance at the Ostrom Workshop at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University

Dr. Anjanette (Angie) Raymond is the Director of the Program on Data Management and Information Governance at the Ostrom Workshop, is the Chair of the Department of Business Law and Ethics, at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, and an Adjunct Professor of Law at Maurer Law School (Indiana). She completed her PhD at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary, University of London where she researched the creation of policy to assist in Managing Bias, Partiality, and Dependence in Online Justice Environments. Angie has written widely in the areas of online dispute resolution, data governance, artificial intelligence governance, privacy, international finance, and commercial dispute resolution in such publications as the Harvard Negotiation Law Review, Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Dispute Resolution, Wisconsin Law Review, Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property, and the American Review of International Arbitration. Angie is currently one of the US National Consultant delegates to UNCITRAL reporting on Electronic Commerce related issues and has previously attended the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law Online Dispute Resolution Working Group, Non-Governmental Organization (Institute of International Commercial Law (IICL)).  She is an identified expert in Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) where she is one of the academic leads in the Collaborative Framework project on cross-border ODR.

Daniel Rothenberg​

Daniel Rothenberg

Co-Director of the Future Security Initiative; Professor of Practice at the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University

Daniel Rothenberg is co-director of the Future Security Initiative and professor of practice at Arizona State University and a senior fellow at New America. He works on international human rights and transitional justice and has designed and managed rule of law projects in Afghanistan, Iraq, Central Africa and throughout Latin America. His books include With These Hands, Memory of Silence: The Guatemalan Truth Commission Report, Drone Wars: Transforming Conflict, Law, and Policy, and Understanding the New Proxy Wars. He has a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Chicago and a PhD in international law from the University of Nottingham.

Les Schiefelbein

Les Schiefelbein

CEO & Founder, Schiefelbein Global | International Arbitrator | Chair of the Board of Directors, Silicon Valley Arbitration & Mediation Center

Les Schiefelbein is an internationally recognized Arbitrator and Mediator with over forty years corporate law and government law expertise in US and International business and technology matters. Les was previously Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company and a US Air Force Judge Advocate Reserve (Colonel), serving clients on US and international aerospace, national security, technology transactions and arbitration and mediation matters. Les is a founding member and Chair of the Board of Directors for the Silicon Valley Arbitration & Mediation Center.

Andrea Schneider

Andrea Schneider

Professor of Law and Director of the Kukin Program for Conflict Resolution at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law

Andrea Kupfer Schneider is a Professor of Law and Director of the Kukin Program for Conflict Resolution at Cardozo School of Law. In 2024, Professor Schneider was awarded the Rubin Theory to Practice Award given by the International Association of Conflict Management (IACM) honoring meritorious and long-standing contributions at the nexus of theory, research and practice. She was named the 2017 recipient of the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution Award for Outstanding Scholarly Work, the highest scholarly award given by the ABA in the field of dispute resolution.  Professor Schneider has published numerous articles and textbooks on negotiation, plea bargaining, negotiation pedagogy, ethics, gender and international conflict. She is a founding editor of Indisputably, the blog for ADR law faculty, and started the Dispute Resolution Works-in-Progress annual conferences in 2007. In 2016, she gave her first TEDx talk titled Women Don’t Negotiate and Other Similar Nonsense.

Scott J. Shackelford​

Scott J. Shackelford

Associate Vice President & Vice Chancellor for Research at Indiana University-Bloomington; Provost Professor of Business Law and Ethics at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business

Professor Scott J. Shackelford is Associate Vice President and Vice Chancellor for Research at Indiana University-Bloomington. He is also the Provost Professor of Business Law and Ethics at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business. Professor Shackelford has written more than 100 articles, book chapters, essays, and op-eds for diverse publications. He is the author of Governing New Frontiers in the Information Age: Toward Cyber Peace (Cambridge University Press, 2020), and Managing Cyber Attacks in International Law, Business, and Relations: In Search of Cyber Peace (Cambridge University Press, 2014). He is also the lead editor of the first volume dedicated to cyber peace entitled Cyber Peace: Charting a Path Toward a Sustainable, Stable, and Secure Cyberspace (Cambridge University Press, 2022).

Abbey Stemler​

Abbey Stemler

Associate Professor of Business Law and Ethics at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business; Faculty Associate at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society

Abbey Stemler is an Associate Professor of Business Law and Ethics and Weimer Faculty Fellow at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business and Faculty Associate at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. Her research explores how tech platforms exploit the gap between what technology enables and what the law allows. Drawing on economics, behavioral sciences, and history, her scholarship develops legal frameworks to protect autonomy, privacy, and democracy without stifling innovation. Her work appears in leading law journals, and she is frequently consulted by lawmakers, intergovernmental organizations, and journalists on platform regulation. She has received multiple national awards, including the Academy of Legal Studies in Business’s Outstanding Early Career Achievement Award and the Jerry S. Cohen Award for Antitrust Scholarship.

Kristan Stoddart​

Kristan Stoddart

Associate Professor for Cyber Threats at Swansea University

Kristan Stoddart is an Associate Professor for Cyber Threats in the Politics, Philosophy, and International Relations Department in the School of Social Sciences at Swansea University, UK. He has spoken at a wide number of conferences, nationally and internationally, including NATO, GCHQ, and US Strategic Command, and for various forms of media, including the BBC. He is the author or co-author of eight books and over 25 articles and book chapters. His last three books are: Cyberwar: Threats to Critical Infrastructure (Palgrave/Springer, 2022), China and its Embrace of Offensive Cyberespionage (De Gruyter: 2025), and Russia’s Hybrid Warfare Offensive Against the West (2026). This is alongside a further edited book, the result of a 2023 conference he organised, Hybrid Warfare: Western and non-Western definitions, concepts, and regional case studies (Quantico, VA: Marine Corps University Press, 2026). He was previously engaged in a research project examining EU resilience to hybrid warfare funded by the European Union.

Peter Tait

Peter Tait

Strategic Advisor for Public Safety at the City of Surrey, BC

Peter Tait is the Strategic Advisor for Public Safety at the City of Surrey, BC. His background includes 20 years in criminal intelligence with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and INTERPOL (Africa), with experience in over 700 files and multi-year major projects.  Areas of expertise include transnational organized crime, fraud, financial crimes, trade-based money laundering, drugs, precursors, environmental and wildlife crimes, human trafficking, corruption, hybrid warfare, foreign-actor interference, and national security threats.