Auteur: Leo S. F. Lin

Dr Anthony Masys is a Senior Defence Scientist for the Department of National Defence, Defence Research and Development Canada, Centre for Security Science. His research interests focus on safety and security, risk, crisis and disaster management, critical infrastructure analysis, humanitarian aid, development and disasters, scenario planning, human security, intelligence (alternative analysis), counter-terrorism, complex socio-technical system analysis, modeling and simulation, systems thinking, knowledge management and operational analysis. A former senior Air Force Officer, Dr Masys has a BSc in Physics and MSc in Underwater Acoustics and Oceanography from the Royal Military College of Canada and a Ph D from the University of Leicester. He is Editor in Chief for Springer Publishing book series: Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications and holds various advisory board positions with academic journals and books series. Dr Masys is aninternationally recognized author, speaker and facilitator and has held workshops in Europe, North and South America and Asia including at the UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction March 2015 in Sendai, Japan. He has published extensively in the domains of physics and the social sciences.  Lieutenant Colonel Leo S.F. Lin is the police attaché of Taiwan’s National Police Agency (NPA) to U.S. and Canada. In his capacity, he deals with broad issues covering police, fire and disasters. Thus, he liaises with various leading law enforcement agencies, namely FBI, ICE, FEMA, RCMP, INTERPOL, among others. He put special focus on international cooperation, transnational crime and terrorism, and international major event security. Lin graduated from Taiwan Central Police University and he holds a M.A. in International Relations from the University of Indianapolis. He is a Research Associate with the Research Institute for European and American Studies (RIEAS) in Athens, and member of the Standing Group on Organised Crime of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR).