We are pleased to welcome Andrew Zammit as the newest member of our Executive Committee. Andrew Zammit is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Victoria University and his research career in political science, including both public-facing research and applied research with government partners, has focused on terrorism and violent extremism in Australia along with other areas of public policy and national security. He was recently appointed as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism and is a member of the Victorian Government's Expert Advisory Committee on Countering Violent Extremism. Before his current position at Victoria University, Andrew was employed as a researcher at Monash University's Global Terrorism Research Centre and as an editor for the website Australian Policy Online (APO) at Swinburne University.
Andrew's recent publications include an article on the Bondi terrorist attack (co-authored with Levi J. West), which featured as the cover story for the March 2026 issue of West Point's Combating Terrorism Center Sentinel, and a review article on the US Federal Bureau of Investigation's CVE handbook. He is currently focused on the project “How events abroad shape threats at home: grounded approaches for forecasting violent extremism”, supported by a National Intelligence Postdoctoral Grant.
Andrew's expertise on terrorism and violent extremism in Australia, experience working with government partners, and wide-ranging research interests, will bring great value to the Committee and we look forward to working with him. He hopes to use his political science background bring a strengthened focus on understanding terrorism as part of the transnational mobilisation of political violence, and how highly contingent contextual factors (the outbreak of a new war, a change of government, a strategic decision by the leaders of an armed movement or a state, or the adoption of a new technology) can have unexpected and outsized impacts on the threat environment.