Denis Suljić
Denis is a Research Associate in the Research and Analysis Department. He joined Hedayah in August 2020. Denis leads and supports several projects and programs within the Department such as the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) project seeking to extract best practices and lessons learned in regional CVE efforts, the Counter-Narrative Library database, the Fellowship Program, and the Foreign Terrorist Fighters Catalogue.
Before Hedayah, Denis worked for several departments in the Government of Canada as a project and policy analyst, including Global Affairs Canada, Employment and Social Development Canada, Health Canada, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, and Shared Services Canada.
Denis holds a Master's degree from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs (NPSIA), Carleton University and a B.A Honors Double Major degree in Political Science and Sociology from the University of Ottawa. Denis’s published Master’s dissertation that focused on radicalization processes of Canadian domestic and foreign terrorist fighters is entitled “From Conversion to Violent Extremism: Empirical Analysis of Three Canadian Muslim Converts to Islam.”