Dr. Nicole Matejic is an Author, PRVE (Preventing Radicalisation to Violent Extremism) Pracademic and National Security focused Behavioural Economist.
Nicole is an internationally recognised and trusted authority on forecasting and navigating national security related crisis and emergency management challenges in environments of converged hybrid risk and threat. Previously a regular instructor and guest speaker at NATO, Nicole is highly regarded for her work in distilling how high-demand groups influence the radicalisation of their followers towards non-violent and violent extremism; and in forecasting emergent tech's likely impacts. She has contributed to research conducted by the United Nations as a subject matter expert.
Nicole's doctoral thesis 'The Radicalisation Cascade: Using Behavioural Economics to Understand how people are Influenced towards Violent Extremes by al-Qaeda and ISIS' considered the role of technology, particularly terrorist and violent extremist content in permissive environments that can influence people towards violence. Her current research focuses on the intersection of AI, GAI, AR/VR/MR/MX/XR, algorithmic influence, and their potential influence on radicalisation, violent extremism, cybercrime, and information integrity.
Currently working with the Christchurch Call Foundation, Nicole is also an Adjunct Lecturer at Australia's Charles Sturt University in the School of Terrorism and Security Studies and a Partner (National Security and Sovereign Risk) with Immuto Group. From 2020 to 2023, Nicole was a Non-Resident Fellow at The Brute Krulak Center for Innovation in Future Warfighting at the United States Marine Corps University. Nicole has previously worked for the New Zealand Government's Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet and Department of Internal Affairs; the Australian Defence Force and Australian Border Force.
A published author, Nicole's first book 'Social Media Rules of Engagement' was published by Wiley in 2015. She has several titles underway: 'The Hate Economy: The Lies People Sell that lead to Violence' (TBC), a memoir 'They Called Him Barney' (publication date TBC) recounting her family history surviving World War II before arriving in Australia as stateless refugees, and a six-part FICINT series 'Twin Strangers' (publication TBC).
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