Professor Alison focuses on high-profile critical and major incidents (from disaster management to terrorism) and has over 28 years of experience working on applied projects for law enforcement and the security services. He currently provides training to the USA’s FBI/CIA/DoD, The UK’s National Counter Terrorism interviewing cadre, and the British Army in the ORBIT framework for rapport-based interrogation methods.
He was the key psychological advisor on over 450 critical and major incidents debriefs, including the 7/7 bombings, the Sharm El Sheik attacks, the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko, and the preparations for the London Olympics.
He has over 200 published articles, books, edited books and government and industry reports and was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s New Year Honours list 2020 for services to critical incident handling and to the NHS during COVID-19.