Jessica Davis is a former senior strategic intelligence analyst with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. She now works as an international consultant on counterterrorism, terrorist financing and women in terrorism. She is the president of Insight Threat Intelligence and the Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies, a visiting senior associate fellow at the Soufan Center, and an associate fellow at the Royal United Services' Institute's Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies and the Global Network on Extremism and Technology. She is also the author of “Illicit Money: Financing Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century” (Lynne Rienner, 2021).
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