Jonathan Russell

International Director at Violence Prevention Network (VPN), Germany's leading practitioner hub for the prevention of violent extremism. His aim is to scale and export VPN's longstanding and successful deradicalisation and rehabilitation model globally to increase its impact and keep ever more societies safe. Part of this is continuing to evolve our approach to deal with the online-offline nexus of radicalisation, and building hyperlocal partnerships to apply our methodology to different contexts and institutions.

Jonathan has worked across the public, private, and civil society sector for more than a decade with a singular mission: preventing violent extremist radicalisation and making society safer against the changing threats that terrorism pose. Most recently he led terrorism prevention interventions for Meta's Trust and Safety Policy team.

He seeks to combine the worlds of strategic communications, technology, public health, international development, and national security to solve one of the toughest problems of our time.