Christine Bradley

Christine Bradley

  • Chief, Countering Terrorist Travel Section, Head of Programme Office
  • United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT)

Ms. Bradley is the Chief of the Countering Terrorist Travel Section within the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT). Within this role, Ms. Bradley leads overall management and coordination of UNOCT’s flagship global initiative, the United Nations Countering Terrorist Travel Programme, as well as serving as Head of UNOCT’s Programme Office in Budapest, Hungary.
Prior to her appointment as Chief of Section within UNOCT, Ms. Bradley managed global programming on Border Security and Management (BSM) within the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Centre (UNCCT). Ms. Bradley has also worked with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Regional Office for Eastern Africa, serving as Head of Office and Programme Coordinator for the country programme in Ethiopia. Her work in this regard included leading national projects relating to criminal justice reform, better migration management and countering transnational organized crime and terrorism.
Ms. Bradley’s professional career includes more than twenty years with the Government of Canada working within the fields of border security, migration management, and national security intelligence. This includes more than ten years within diplomatic missions managing border security and migration integrity programming in Southern and Eastern Africa and Eastern Europe.
Ms. Bradley holds a postgraduate diploma/M.Litt in Terrorism Studies from the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV) at the University of St. Andrews, and a bachelor’s degree in criminology from the University of Calgary, Canada.

Sessions

  • Interagency Cooperation and Collaboration

    It is widely acknowledged that interagency cooperation is the key to the effective border management, facilitating the movement of goods and people whilst simultaneously preventing bad actors from travelling and interdicting the movement of illicit goods. But what can be in practical terms on the ground to increase communication, share actionable intelligence and best practise.