Milo Comerford

Senior Director of Policy & Research, Counter-Extremism

Milo 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, Politico, CNN, 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, extremist propaganda and educational responses to extremism. Milo is an advisory board member of the Prevention Practitioners Network, a network of more than a thousand frontline practitioners working to tackle terrorism and targeted violence across the US, as well as a member of Spotify’s Safety Advisory Council.