is a globally recognized hostage negotiation, kidnap response, and counterterrorism specialist, who possesses a unique blend of academic and practitioner qualifications and backgrounds. Adam is an internationally trained hostage negotiator (New Scotland Yard, FBI, Police Scotland, Greater Manchester Police) who deploys globally on cases of kidnap, hijack, siege, threat extortion, product contamination and malicious detention.

In the past Adam was the Lead Expert Consultant on Kidnapping for Ransom (KFR) at the United Nations Counterterrorism Centre (UNCCT); a Professor of Terrorism Studies at the University of Wollongong, Australia; Professor of Counterterrorism at the George C. Marshall Center for European Security Studies in Garmisch, Germany; Chief Trainer at the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research (ICPVTR) in Singapore; and a researcher at the Weapons of Mass Destruction Terrorism Research Project at the Monterey Institute of International Studies in California.

Adam has delivered lectures and training courses for various organizations and agencies in over 65 countries, and regularly works in challenging environments (i.e. Chechnya, Ingushetia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Lebanon, Uganda, Sudan, Southern Philippines, DRC, Nigeria, Colombia, Myanmar, Indonesia, Southern Thailand, Russia, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Cameroon, India, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Kenya, Algeria, Peru, Mauritania etc.) Adam is a frequent trainer on the UN Hostage Incident Management (HIM) course, and is regularly invited to share his knowledge with the International Negotiators’ Working Group (INWG), which brings together representatives of the world's top hostage negotiation teams, and the International Hostage Senior Leader Working Group under the US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM).

Adam’s academic publications include Understanding Terrorist Innovation: Technologies, Tactics, and Global Trends (London: Routledge, 2007) and Negotiating Hostage Crises with the New Terrorists (Westport CT: Praeger Security International, 2007), Conducting Terrorism Field Research: A Guide (London: Routledge, 2013), Negotiating the Siege of Lal Masjid (Oxford University Press, 2016), and Understanding the Lord's Resistance Army Insurgency (World Scientific, 2016), as well as over 60 reports and academic articles. Adam also serves on the Editorial Board of “Terrorism and Political Violence”, a leading academic journal in the field.