IAC Chair
Jonathan Russell is the International Director at Violence Prevention Network (VPN). Headquartered in Germany, VPN is Europe’s largest tertiary prevention practitioner organisation in P/CVE, having supported over 3000 terrorism-connected offenders through its disengagement and rehabilitation programmes. Jonathan’s focus is to share VPN’s expertise and practitioner approach around the world through initiatives such as Diversions (online-offline referrals to practitioners) and INDEX – the international network for disengagement and exit (professional association for tertiary prevention practitioners). Jonathan has over a decade of experience in counter-terrorism, previously working on terrorism prevention in Meta’s Safety Policy team, leading the counter violent extremism portfolio at a strategic communications agency, and sitting on the steering committee for the European Union’s Radicalisation Awareness Network (EU RAN).