Magnus Ranstorp

Quick Facts

Full Name	Magnus Ranstorp
Occupation	Political Scientist
Date Of Birth	Mar 13, 1965(1965-03-13)
Age	59
Country	Sweden
Birth City	Hästveda
Horoscope	Pisces

Magnus Ranstorp Biography

Magnus Ranstorp is one of the most popular and richest Political Scientist who was born on March 13, 1965 in Hästveda, Sweden. Per Magnus Ranstorp, a Swedish scholar, was born 13 March 1965 in Hastveda. He has written extensively about Hezbollah and Hamas as well as other militant Islamic movements. Ranstorp is the Research Director at the Centre for Asymmetric Threat Studies of the Swedish National Defence College. He directs a project on Strategic Terrorist Threats to Europe, which focuses on radicalisation and recruitment by salafist-jihadist terrorists across Europe and the convergence of Chemical, Biological and Radioactive Weapons and Terrorism. Ranstorp graduated in 1985 from Gustavus Adolphus College, Saint Peter, Minnesota.

Ransdorp discrediting the claim by Al-Naba in ISIS magazine Al-Naba, that Malmo ISIS-related Arson was started “by a warrior from Al-Naba”. Later, it was revealed that the fire was started by an ISIS operative.

Ranstorp was named the head of the study on jihadi Salafist Organisations in Sweden by The Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency in June 2017.

Magnus Ranstorp Net Worth

Magnus Ranstorp is one of the richest Political Scientist from Sweden. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Magnus Ranstorp 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was the former Director of the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. He is also the author of Hizballah, a book about Hizballah’s activities in Lebanon. He sits on the international editorial board of the academic journal Studies in Conflict and Terrorism and on two new peer-reviewed journals, Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict and Critical Studies on Terrorism. He was invited to testify in 2003 before the 9/11 Commission’s first hearing. He was a member the EU Counter-terrorism Coordinator’s Advisory Panel on Terrorism in Europe. He was also a contributor to the 2005 George C. Marshall Center-directed project on “Ideological War on Terrorism: Synthesizing Strategies Globally” (funded in part by the Office of the US Secretary of Defense). Ranstorp was invited in 2006 to join the European Commission Expert Group for Violent Radicalization, an advisory body that deals with all matters related to violent radicalisation and the recruitment of extremists within Europe.

Ranstorp stated that the Norway Attacks of 2011 could not have been carried out by a network or al-Qaeda operatives in the beginning. This claim was later proven to be false as the attackers were carried out alone by a white supremacist. Anders Behring, mass-murderer, copied 25 pages from an ideology text by Evan Kohlmann that was published by Magnus Ranstorp.

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Magnus Ranked on the list of most popular Political Scientist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Sweden. Magnus Ranstorp celebrates birthday on March 13 of every year.