Jessica Davis
Dr. Jessica Davis completed her PhD in 2024 at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University, examining counterterrorist financing policy and practice. Prior to undertaking her PhD, Jessica worked for the government of Canada in various roles in the Canadian Armed Forces, Global Affairs Canada, FINTRAC, and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. She is the author of Illicit Money: Financing Terrorism in the 21st Century (2021) and Women in Modern Terrorism (2018) and has published extensively in the Globe and Mail, Just Security, Lawfare, and in academic journals. Jessica is an associate fellow with the Royal United Services Institute's Centre for Finance and Security, a senior visiting fellow with the Soufan Center, and a senior associate with the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS). She is a SSHRC Bombardier scholar, and in 2023, she won the prestigious SSHRC Impact Talent award. She is also the President of Insight Threat Intelligence and the non-profit Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies and co-host of Secure Line podcast. She is currently a post-doctoral associate at the University of Calgary Faculty of Law.
