Emily Dyer

Emily Dyer joined the Henry Jackson Society as a Junior Research Fellow in January 2012. Emily previously worked as a Higher Executive Officer for the Preventing Extremism Unit at the Department for Education, where she wrote several papers on extremism within educational settings. Beforehand she was based at the Policy Exchange think tank. Emily has a breadth of journalistic experience, having previously been based at the Sunday Times and the Observer, where her work on a range of issues – including Russia, student fees and Wikileaks – has been published several times. She has also written on Islamist and right-wing extremism on student campuses for Standpoint magazine. She has written on Islamic feminism and women’s rights in the Middle East and has travelled widely within Syria.