Margaret Gilmore is an award winning writer and broadcaster, and a Senior Research Fellow with the leading security and defence think tank RUSI (Royal United Services Institute). She's currently writing and lecturing on UK counter-terrorism, Olympic 2012 security, policing, Northern Ireland and cyber security. (Search the BBC and RUSI websites for her latest academic work and TV appearances).

She is best known as an authoritative face on our television screens. For 19 years she worked for the BBC, most recently as Senior Home Affairs Correspondent, before that as Environment Correspondent and on “Newsnight” and “Panorama”. She continues to appear as a security analyst for television companies across the world and to write and make films and chair conferences. (Did you see her on the BBC News Channel on Feb 1, 2012?) She’s also a Non-Executive Director on the Board of the Food Standards Agency and is Chair of its Risk Committee. 

The book she’s written with Andy Hayman, former police chief in charge of UK Counter-terrorism, is now available in paper-back. “The Terrorist Hunters” contains a graphic, harrowing, insider's account of the July 7th 2005, bomb attacks in London and is an analysis of the current terrorist threat to the UK. Sometimes the truth is more incredible than spy fiction!     

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