Tom Quiggin

Following military service, including time served in Croatia and Bosnia as well as multiple arms control inspections in Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Belarus and Albania, Tom worked in an intelligence capacity for a number of different institutions. These have included the RCMP (national security), Citizenship and Immigration (war crimes) The Privy Council Office, The International War Crimes Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, and the Canada Revenue Agency.  He was also a Senior Research Fellow in Singapore’s Nanyang Technological and is currently a Senior Fellow at the Canadian Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies at Carlton University.  He is also on contract at the Bank of Canada.

Tom has been declared a court expert in three different courts including the Ontario Superior Court, the Federal Court of Canada and the Immigration and Refugee Board.  He has also testified in the Ontario Criminal Court as a fact witness in two different cases related to terrorism and international hostage taking.  The areas of expertise noted by the Ontario Superior Court and the Federal Court related to the structure and organization of the global jihadist movement.  Additionally, the Federal Court recognized him as an expert in the matter of the reliability of intelligence and evidence as they appear in court.

Tom has published a single author book on national security intelligence requirements as well as several book chapters on matters related to terrorism, national security and military affairs.  These have been published in Canada, the USA, Singapore, the UK, Germany and the Netherlands.  He has made recent conference presentations in Australia, the Netherlands, the USA, Belgium and Canada.

Featuring Tom Quiggin …

Articles and Blog posts by Tom Quiggin on Global Brief.

Author of Seeing the Invisible: National Security Intelligence in an Uncertain World (World Scientific Press 2007).

Author of “Open Source Intelligence Support to Investigations in a Hostile Climate,” in La voir Canadienne vers la Cours pénale internationale: tous les chemins mènent à Rome (2004).

Articles and book contributions.

Quiggin has a chapter titled “Intelligence and War Crimes: Some Views from Operational Experience” in the book Canada and International Humanitarian Law (2002).

Article titled, “Extremist Activity Associated with the 2010 Olympics, the G8, and the SPP” through the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism.

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