The National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) recently named Amy Pate as its new executive director.
Pate is a political scientist with a doctorate in government and politics specializing in international relations and comparative politics. She will maintain her role as START’s research director.
In her dual roles, Pate will run day-to-day operations, craft long-term strategy and provide guidance for START researchers from proposal development to the submission of final deliverables.
She teaches a course through START’s Global Terrorism Minor Program and often speaks at lectures and conferences within government departments and agencies.
“START is very fortunate to have Amy in this position,” William Braniff, START director, said. “She has been a graduate student with START, a project coordinator, a researcher, a primary investigator, an acting director of administrative services, an acting education director and our research director. When you combine her work ethic with all of these experiences, you get an exceptionally versatile, informed, empathetic and skilled leader for the organization.”
START also recently published a new database of 517 chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) terrorism–related events from 1990 to 2017.
Each event involves more than 140 consequence, geospatial, motivational, operational, temporal, and tactical variables.