IAC Chair
Dr. Ghayda Hassan is a clinical psychologist and professor of clinical psychology at UQAM university in Montreal and has several research, clinical and community based national and international affiliations. In addition to Chairing the Independent Advisory Committee for the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, she is the director of the Canadian Practioner Network for the Prevention of Radicalization and Extremist Violence (RPC-PREV; funded by PS Canada) She is also a UNESCO co-chair in Prevention of Radicalization and Extremist Violence (UNESCO-PREV).
She is a researcher and senior clinical consultant at the SHERPA-RAPS (SHERPA subteam RAPS for Research and Action on Radicalisation and Social Suffering at the CIUSSS Center-West of the island of Montreal – to name a few. Her systematic reviews, research and clinical activities are centred around four main areas of clinical cultural psychology: 1) Social suffering, intercommunity relations, radicalization and extremist violence ; 2) Intervention in family violence & cultural diversity; 2) Identity, belonging and mental health of children and adolescents from ethnic/religious minorities ; 3) working with vulnerable immigrants and refugees.