Biography
Graham is a part-time PhD student within King’s War Studies Department, where he is researching the resurgence of terrorist groups in Afghanistan since the withdrawal in 2021, with a particular focus on the challenges of intelligence collection.
He holds a joint law degree from the University of Central Lancashire and Central Connecticut State University, from where he graduated in 2003. He spent several years as a senior private banker with Coutts & Co, where he developed an extensive knowledge of tax havens, terrorism financing and sanctions, before establishing his own training consultancy in 2012. He has studied extensively the events of 9/11, its antecedents and the subsequent ‘Global War on Terror’.
Graham undertook a Master’s degree in Covert Action, HUMINT and the Psychology of Intelligence Elicitation and his Master’s dissertation focused on the Investigatory Power’s Commissioner’s role in overseeing the UK intelligence agencies treatment of detainees and the sharing of intelligence with their liaison partners.
He recently attended a week-long summer institute for educators at the 9/11 Memorial & Museum and volunteers at the annual 9/11 commemorations in New York.
Thesis title
An analysis of the resurgence of terrorist groups in Afghanistan since the withdrawal in 2021
Research Interest
- The events of 9/11 and its antecedents
- The Global War on Terror
- Transnational jihadi terrorist groups
- Counterterrorism
- The role of HUMINT
- Intelligence oversight