Christopher James Flaherty

Dr. Christopher Flaherty has been based in London since 2008. He is an active contributor on security, terrorism early warning, and related international intelligence issues. He was involved in the development of a 'Scripted Agent Based Microsimulation Project', at the University of Wollongong (NSW, Australia). Dr. Flaherty specializes in the area of Mass Gathering Vulnerability analysis, and risk analysis projects for building facilities in the U.K. and U.S. His work covers a broad spectrum of risk-related endeavors including resilience, counter-terrorism, critical infrastructure protection, 3D tactics, fragmentation and vulnerability analysis. He has a Ph.D. in Economic Relations from the University of Melbourne with a focus on networking and, following this, he pursued a career in Defence and security research initially in the Australian Department of Defence where he published a series of articles, namely "Mimicking Operations" in the Australian Army Journal and "International and Australian Preemption Theory" and "The Role of Command and Influence in Australian Multidimensional Manoeuvre Theory" in the Defence Force Journal. His most recent work has been as the author of a research monograph/report sponsored by U.S. based OODA Loop (www.oodaloop.com): Flaherty, C. (2012) Dangerous Minds: A Monograph on the Relationship Between Beliefs -Behaviours - Tactics. Published by OODA LOOP (7 September 2012).