Susanne Therese Hansen is a Senior Researcher at the research institute NTNU Social Research in Trondheim, Norway. She holds a PhD (2016) in Political Science. Her current research interests include but are not confined to societal security, security policy and risk governance. She leads research projects on governmental and industrial security risk governance in the face of hybrid threats to critical infrastructure. She has also conducted extensive research on compliance with risk-based regulation in trade in armaments and licensed technology.