Sissel Haugdal Jore is a Professor in Risk Management and Societal Safety at the University of Stavanger (UiS), Norway. Her research focuses on terrorism, counterterrorism, hybrid threats, defence and security policies and security risk management. Jore is a member of the External Expert Group on Strategic Risk Analysis at Frontex and serves on the Portfolio Board for Democracy and Global Development in the Norwegian Research Council. She was a member of the Government appointed Norwegian defence commission. She is the post- chair of the Security Defence Speciality Group in the Society for Risk Analysis – International. Previously, she was an elected board member of the Nordic Society for Risk Analysis and Head of the Security-Technical Committees for the European Safety and Reliability Association.