Rashmi Singh is Associate Professor at the Postgraduate Program in International Relations at PUC Minas, Brazil and a Research Productivity Scholar at CnPQ. She holds a PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is co-founder and co-director of the Research Network on Terrorism, Radicalization and Transnational Crime (TRAC) and Coordinator of the Laboratory for Research and Projects in International Relations at PUC Minas. She has over 20 years of experience working on the topic of terrorism with a focus on the Middle East and South Asia. More recently, she has expanded her focus to include organised crime and Latin America (specifically the Southern Cone region).

Dr. Singh is as an Associate Editor of Perspectives on Terrorism and on the editorial boards of International Politics, International Journal of Conflict and Violence and Asian Journal of International Peace and Conflict. She was Lecturer of Terrorism Studies at the University of St. Andrews from 2008-2016. She has also served as a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Terrorism between 2013 and 2014.