Gavin McNicoll

Gavin McNicoll is a member of the Advisory Board of Strategic Communication Laboratories. McNicoll has an M.A. in International relations and Philosophy from St Andrews University with honours in Intelligence, Terrorism, U.S. Foreign Policy and the Middle East. He is the founder of Eden Intelligence, a specialist provider of small scale, high impact conferences on counter-terrorism and security related issues and the responsible for the International Terrorism and Intelligence programme, now a landmark event in the counter-terrorism calendar, bringing together the leading counter-terrorist minds from around the world. In 2005 he founded a new programme of work International Terrorism and Finance to focus on financial intelligence cooperation issues on a G8 plus level. The meeting and agenda for ITF have been supported by assistance form the Home Office, Her Majesty’s Treasury, The Foreign & Commonwealth Office, The National Criminal Intelligence Service and The Metropolitan Police.

Prior to founding Eden Intelligence, McNicoll managed many large-scale social marketing and charity events. He was a consultant in its founding years to the Laureus World Sports Awards, a major sports marketing event with a worldwide TV audience of over a billion people and which is a leading example of global corporate social responsibility on behalf of Richemont and DaimlerChrysler. McNicoll has also worked in governmental lobbying.