Milo Comerford

Senior Director of Policy & Research

Milo Comerford is Senior Director of Policy & Research at ISD UK, leading a global team of extremism experts and an international programme of research and policy partnerships across Europe, North America and Australasia. Milo is an internationally recognised subject-matter expert on extremism, providing regular briefings for senior decision makers on the evolving threat landscape, and featuring frequently in international media, including BBC News, CNN, PBS, the Washington Post and the New York Times. Milo studied Philosophy and Theology at Oxford University, and was previously Senior Analyst at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, where he led major studies on online extremism, Salafi-jihadi propaganda and educational responses to extremism. Milo is a member of Spotify’s Safety Advisory Council, and has recently provided expert testimony to the UK Home Affairs Committee Inquiry on New Forms of Extremism and the Southport Inquiry.