The Radical Right During Crisis

Dr Eviane Leidig is a postdoctoral affiliate at the Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX) at the University of Oslo, and an Associate Fellow at the Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET). Her research compares far-right online communities in India and North America. She is a founding member of the Steering Group at the Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right (CARR).

Dr Alan Waring, lead contributor and editor: Originally qualifying as an industrial chemist, he switched mid-career to management and social sciences, involving a PhD on management of change (1993) at Westminster University jointly with Aston Business School. He was an international risk management consultant on a range of corporate, strategic and operational risk issues to government departments, institutions and large corporations 1986-2016 (now retired). More than 80 assignments in 14 countries. Sometime visiting academic roles in Beijing (International Risk Consultant, Tsinghua University 2005-2007), Hong Kong (Adjunct Professor, Centre for Corporate Governance and Financial Policy, HK Baptist University 2006-2008) and Cyprus since 2012 (Visiting Professor, now Adjunct Professor, CERIDES (Centre for Risk and Decision Sciences), European University Cyprus). Appointed Policy & Practitioner Fellow by CARR (Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right) based in London in 2020, and regular contributor of articles to CARR Insight Blog.
Waring’s books include The New Authoritarianism Vol 1: A Risk Analysis of the US Alt-Right Phenomenon (2018), The New Authoritarianism Vol 2: A Risk Analysis of the European Alt-Right Phenomenon (2019), Corporate Risk and Governance (2013), Managing Risk (1998, co-authored with Ian Glendon), and Practical Systems Thinking (1996). Over 100 conference and seminar papers in UK, USA, Australia, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Iran and Cyprus. Several hundred articles in the academic, business and popular press. Contributor of The Risk Watch column in Financial Mirror 2004-2018. Interviewed by BBC News, Shanghai TV, IRNN, and FM Online TV.

Dr William Allchorn is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Leeds and Associate Director at the Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right (CARR). He is an expert on anti-Islamic radical-right social movements in the UK and Western Europe. He is the author of Anti-Islamic Protest in the UK (Routledge, 2018). In 2019, he started a new research project—with Hedayah CVE—looking at violent far-right extremist narratives and counter narratives globally.

Valerio Alfonso Bruno is Research Fellow at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, where he collaborates with Polidemos (Center for the Study of Democracy and Political Change) and fellow at the Far-Right Analyis Network (FRAN). Bruno is a specialist on the Italian far-right and has recently contributed to the Routledge Handbook of Far-Right Extremism in Europe and the Handbook Non-Violent Extremism. His online analyses have appeared, among others, on Al Jazeera, Financial Times, The Economist, France24.

Michael Colborne is a Canadian journalist and researcher who focuses on the far right in Eastern Europe. He is a Policy and Practitioner Fellow with the Centre for the Analysis of the Radical Right (CARR) and has been part of the Bellingcat Monitoring Project team at the investigative journalism website Bellingcat, primarily researching Ukraine’s far right. Colborne’s work has appeared in Al Jazeera, Haaretz, The New Republic, Balkan Insight, and other publications.