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The P4 laboratory, on the campus of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, in Wuhan, in China's central Hubei province. (Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images)
Associate Analyst, Programme on Violent Radicalisation and Global Terrorism at the Elcano Royal Institute
Dr. Sergio Altuna is a Senior Research Fellow for the Program on Extremism at The George Washington University. His areas of expertise include violent non-state actors in the Great Maghreb and the Sahel; contemporary Islamist thought; Islamist narratives; and the development of alternative narratives and counternarratives. He also specializes in the creation of monitoring and evaluation tools to measure the impact of security policies in unstable environments.