Munira Mustaffa is the founder and Executive Director of Chasseur Group and Senior Fellow at Verve Research, specialising in emerging security challenges across political violence, hybrid threats, and irregular warfare. A former analyst at SEARCCT and Malaysia’s Defence Intelligence Organisation (MDIO), she holds an MSc in Countering Organised Crime and Terrorism from University College London and is an incoming PhD candidate in War Studies at King’s College London. Her work spans transnational threat analysis to strategic vulnerabilities, and she recently co-authored a good practice manual on countering terrorism financing for the International Institute for Justice and the Rule of Law (IIJ). She is also an Affiliate Member of the AVERT Research Network and previously held fellowships at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT) in The Hague and the New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy in Washington, DC. Her analyses have been published by NATO StratCom COE, GNET, ASPI, ICCT, and the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point. She regularly briefs senior government and military stakeholders, as well as police and international law enforcement agencies including the FBI, and has provided expert analysis to news outlets such as Reuters, Washington Post, and Al Jazeera.
