Aviva Guttmann

Aviva Guttmann is a Visiting Researcher in War Studies at King’s College London and a Marie Skłodowska Curie Senior Researcher at Southern Denmark University’s Center for War Studies. She chairs the Women’s Intelligence Network (WIN), promoting women in intelligence studies. Her research focuses on Cold War-era intelligence cooperation, counterterrorism, and security policies in Europe and the Middle East.

Education includes institutions such as the University of Basel, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva), Sciences Po Paris, and the London School of Economics. Her work is supported by grants from the Swiss National Sciences Foundation and the European Research Council, including her current ERC Marie Curie project LINSEC, analyzing informal counterterrorism intelligence sharing in Europe.

Research interests span EU security integration, intelligence’s role in counterterrorism, clandestine diplomacy, and the ethics of targeted killings. She has published a monograph The Origins of International Counterterrorism (2018) and peer-reviewed articles in journals like Journal for Strategic Studies and Intelligence and National Security. Media contributions include commentary on Swiss news platforms and The Conversation.

Her projects include INTEL, examining intelligence failures in foreign policy during events like the Arab uprisings and the Russia-Ukraine crisis. Grants and awards include a prestigious Swiss National Sciences Foundation postdoctoral fellowship and ERC funding. Professional experience includes Security Sector Reform projects in Nigeria and work with the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF).