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Gina Ligon

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Gina Ligon

Gina Ligon

  • Director of NCITE
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email:
gligon@unomaha.edu
area of focus:
  • I-O psychology, national security

Additional Information

Bio

Gina Ligon is the founder and director of the National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology, and Education Center (NCITE). She is an internationally known industrial and organizational psychologist with proven terrorism expertise in both the academic and policy spheres.

Ligon has served on Office of the Director of National Intelligence panels for the National Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. She regularly briefs the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, National Media Exploitation Center, and other federal agencies on international and domestic terrorism.

She serves on the advisory board of CREST, the U.K.-based Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats.

Ligon has published more than 80 peer-reviewed publications related to violent extremist organizations, leadership, and collaboration, and has had federal funding for her research since 2008. She also serves on the editorial board of four academic journals related to terrorism studies, leadership, and innovation.

Ligon received her Ph.D. in industrial and organizational (I-O) psychology and minor in Quantitative Psychology from the University of Oklahoma.

Prior to joining the University of Nebraska at Omaha, she was a full time faculty member at Villanova University in the Graduate Programs in Human Resource Development. She also worked as a director of performance consulting at St. Louis-based Psychological Associates.

Research Interests

Leadership, innovation, ideological organizations

Education

Ph.D. Industrial and Organizational Psychology; University of Oklahoma

M.S. Industrial and Organizational Psychology; University of Oklahoma

B.S. Psychology, Spanish (minor); Southwestern Oklahoma State University

For media inquiries about the National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology, and Education (NCITE) Center, please contact Erin Grace, director of strategic communications and external relations, at egrace@unomaha.edu

Additional Information

Bio

Gina Ligon is the founder and director of the National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology, and Education Center (NCITE). She is an internationally known industrial and organizational psychologist with proven terrorism expertise in both the academic and policy spheres.

Ligon has served on Office of the Director of National Intelligence panels for the National Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. She regularly briefs the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, National Media Exploitation Center, and other federal agencies on international and domestic terrorism.

She serves on the advisory board of CREST, the U.K.-based Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats.

Ligon has published more than 80 peer-reviewed publications related to violent extremist organizations, leadership, and collaboration, and has had federal funding for her research since 2008. She also serves on the editorial board of four academic journals related to terrorism studies, leadership, and innovation.

Ligon received her Ph.D. in industrial and organizational (I-O) psychology and minor in Quantitative Psychology from the University of Oklahoma.

Prior to joining the University of Nebraska at Omaha, she was a full time faculty member at Villanova University in the Graduate Programs in Human Resource Development. She also worked as a director of performance consulting at St. Louis-based Psychological Associates.

Research Interests

Leadership, innovation, ideological organizations

Education

Ph.D. Industrial and Organizational Psychology; University of Oklahoma

M.S. Industrial and Organizational Psychology; University of Oklahoma

B.S. Psychology, Spanish (minor); Southwestern Oklahoma State University

For media inquiries about the National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology, and Education (NCITE) Center, please contact Erin Grace, director of strategic communications and external relations, at egrace@unomaha.edu

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Bio Research Interests Education

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