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Gina Ligon, Ph.D.

Jack and Stephanie Koraleski Chair of Collaboration Science Professor, Management and Leadership, College of Business Administration

Director of NCITE

gligon@unomaha.edu 402.554.2972

Gina Ligon director of NCITE, is an internationally known industrial/organizational psychologist with proven terrorism expertise in the academic & policy spheres.

Biography

Gina Ligon, Ph.D., is the founder and director of the National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology, and Education Center (NCITE) at UNO.

NCITE is a Department of Homeland Security Center of Excellence with over 30 academic partners in the U.S. and Europe.

Ligon also serves as a principal investigator on an international project that aims to grow counterterrorism expertise globally.

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

Ligon’s research spans organizational structures and leadership in violent ideological groups. With over 80 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, her work has been featured in Homeland Security News Wire, The Independent, and The Washington Post, and she is the co-editor of the forthcoming De Gruyter academic publishing Psychology of Terrorism Handbook

In the News

"’Why Omaha?’: DHS bets on Nebraska as the future of terrorism research” - The Washington Post
“'They've never stopped thinking about us': NCITE breaks down ISIS-K terror attack in Russia” - KETV
"Rising Threats to Public Officials: A Review of 10 Years of Federal Data” - Homeland Security News Wire

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  • National Security

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