Meriem Rebbani has been actively working in the field of Crime Prevention & Counterterrorism since 2015. She was recently awarded by Women in International Security (WIIS) the 2020 Emerging Thought Leader Award. For the past six years, she has worked for the Canadian Federal Police (RCMP) and for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) as a Counterterrorism & Countering Violent Extremism specialist, and has completed several missions in the Middle East in Tunisia and Iraq.

She holds a BA and an MA in social anthropology from Concordia University with a specialization in mass shootings, gendered violence and criminology. She is a junior affiliate of the Canadian Network for Research on Terrorism, Security & Society (TSAS), and is currently completing a PhD in criminology at the University of Montréal on the subject of Canadian CVE Efforts.

Her research interests and activities at the Van Vollenhoven Institute focuses on Preventing Violent Extremism and the issues surrounding Risk Governance in prisons & detention facilities.

Phone: +31 6 87 84 51 89