Center for Asymmetric Threat Studies Department of Security, Strategy, and Leadership Swedish Defence University,
Stockholm, Sweden

Dr. Lars Nicander is Director for the Centre for Asymmetric Threat Studies at The Swedish Defence University—an independent government Think Tank. He was also, between 1997-2002, appointed Secretary of the Cabinet Working-Group on Defensive Information Operations. He is a political scientist with a dissertation on “New Threats—Old Routines” at Åbo Akademi University in Finland, and has served in various positions within the Swedish national security environment during the last 30 years. He has been an elected member of the Institute of Strategic Studies in London (IISS) and Fellow of The Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences for many years.