Petra Regeni

Petra Regeni is a Research Analyst and Project Officer in the Terrorism and Conflict group at RUSI Europe, based in Brussels. Petra primarily works on the EU-funded Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) Policy Support programme and the Extremism and Gaming Research Network (EGRN), as well as the Far-Right Extremism and Terrorism programme.

Her research focus encompasses radicalisation and extremism, including preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE) and deradicalisation efforts, jihadist and right-wing ideologies, and the online realm. Her recent research outputs and works include the online gaming and extremism nexus, extremist foreign funding and influence, terrorist content online, propaganda and mis/disinformation, and EU counterterrorism policy. Prior to joining RUSI Europe, she worked in the research and analysis department at Hedayah, and served as a capacity building and third-party M&E officer at Trust Consultancy in Gaziantep, Turkey. Petra holds a BA with Honours in Political Science from Dalhousie University, completed an exchange programme at the Australian National University, and an MSc in International Crimes, Conflict and Criminology at the VU Amsterdam. She was also an output lead for the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism's (GIFCT) 2023 Working Group on Legal Frameworks and is an alumna of the German Marshal Fund’s 2022 Young Professionals Summit programme.