“Janika Albers Memorial Lecture on Political Risk Managing the Risk from Violent Political Extremism: Swimming Upstream”

Anja Dalgaard-Nielsen
Director, Preventive Security Department, Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET), Soborg, Denmark


Part of the Risk Seminar Series and the Global Risk Management Course, supported by Advisory Council Member Robert S. Singer

On November 24, 2011, Janika Albers , SAIS alumna Bologna 2006 Washington DC 2007 from Germany, passed away. She was a person of tremendous energy and determination, a dedicated member of the Bologna Center community and a much-valued member of Oxford Analytica, the advisory firm where she had worked since completing her SAIS degree. Over the years, she not only spearheaded a number of important projects, but also collaborated closely with other SAIS alumni and members of the faculty.

Following Janika's untimely death, both her classmates from Bologna Class of 2006 and her colleagues at Oxford Analytica Ltd began exploring ways to honor Janika's memory. Political Risk was one of Janika's strongest interests, and the Class of 2006, together with Janika’s family, decided to undertake the project that Janika was organizing with Professor Erik Jones at the time of her passing and support the Janika Albers Memorial Lecture on Political Risk.

Oxford Analytica decided to honor her memory by sponsoring an internship for a Bologna Center student at their Advisory Practice and by establishing an educational partnership aiming to support the SAIS European Studies Program.

Both these initiatives will contribute to keep Janika's presence alive at SAIS Bologna. Janika's family express its gratitude for this endeavor to honor in perpetuity Janika's memory.

For further information on this initiative see:
http://www.jhubc.it/SUPPORT-THE-BC/CLASS-INITIATIVES/classinitiative2006.cfm

ANJA DALGAARD-NIELSEN
Anja Dalgaard-Nielsen serves on the board of directors of the Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET) with line responsibility for strategic analysis, national and international preventive efforts, and protective security.

Previously, she headed the research unit "Political Violence, Terrorism, and Radicalization" at the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), where she also worked as senior researcher.

Anja Dalgaard-Nielsen is a non-resident fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations, Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). She also serves on the board of advisers of the Center on Global Counter-Terrorism Cooperation in Washington D.C. and on the board of advisers of the Center for Asymmetric Threat Studies at the National Defence College in Sweden.

Anja Dalgaard-Nielsen holds a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University SAIS, and has published widely on topics such as terrorism, radicalization, homeland security, peace-keeping operations, and transatlantic relations. She has conducted research as an embedded researcher with Danish armed forces in Kosovo, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

Publications: Umulig mission? Danmark i Afghanistan og Irak (Gyldendal 2008); Germany, pacifism and peace enforcement (Manchester University Press 2006); Transatlantic Homeland Security. Protecting Society in the Age of Catastrophic Terrorism (Routledge 2006) (redigeret med Daniel Hamilton).


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