Max Taylor is Professor of International Relations at the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV) in the School of International Relations, University of St Andrews. He is a Legal and Forensic Psychologist with wide international experience of research and consultancy in the area of terrorism and terrorist behaviour, including consultancies for Government and Private companies, and legal and forensic court work. Max is a Non Executive Director on the Board of Dryad Maritime Intelligence Service and has helped mould the predictive intelligence doctrine that Dryad utilises.
His current research interests include the role of the new technologies in terrorism, Sudan and Darfur, the exploration of psychological processes in the emergence of terrorist behaviour, and the psychological and behavioural context to the emergence of radical Islamic terrorism. He has been a member of a number of government and international advisory committees.
His books include The Terrorist (1988), The Fanatic (1991), Terrorist Lives (with E. Quayle: 1994), Future Developments of Terrorism (with J. Horgan: 2000).