About Christopher
Christopher Wall is a PhD student at King’s College London’s War Studies Department where he researches and writes about the global far-right from a comparative perspective. He has a secondary research track examining how AI/ML affects the national security enterprise in democratic societies. In addition, he serves as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University and a lecturer for USSOCOM’s Strategic Leadership International Course.
On a more personal level, he’s a huge dork. He’s obsessed with dystopic science fiction, punk rock and hip-hop, 1980’s pop culture, art and art history, poetry, Latin American literature, cyberpunk novels, classics, old maps, and anything that speaks to the human condition. If you get him going on the topic of music, be forewarned he considers the Talking Heads’ Naïve Melody the greatest song ever, Weezer’s Pinkerton the best power-pop album of all time, A Tribe Called Quest the great hip-hop group, and Cutty Ranks the best dancehall toaster. He’s a sucker for impressionist art, considering Monet the visual equivalent of poetry because he takes to heart Octavio Paz’s argument that poetry’s function is to immortalize the essence of beauty.
Brief CV
Experience
Senior Consultant
Deloitte
2022 to present
Social Scientist
Giant Oak
2017 to 2022
Research Analyst
Ntrepid Corporation
2014-2017
Adjunct Professor
Georgetown University
2019 to present
Lecturer
USSOCOM
2015 to present
Research Fellow
Georgetown University
2013 to 2014
Research Assistant
Ft. McNair
2013
Education
PhD War Studies
King’s College London
Expected in 2023
MA Security Studies
Georgetown University
May 2015
BA in Political Science
University of North Texas
May 2011
Select Publications
Books
Laqueur, Walter, and Christopher Wall, The Future of Terrorism: ISIS, al-Qaeda, and the Far-Right, New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2018.
Journal Publications
Wall, Christopher and Gary Shiffman, “It’s not the algorithm, it’s the ethics,” Journal of Financial Compliance, vol 6, no. 3, 2023, 222-231
Wall, Christopher, “The (Non) Deus-Ex Machina: A Realistic Assessment of Machine Learning for Counter Domestic Terrorism,” Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, October 2021.
Wall, Christopher, “The last great historian: Walter Laqueur and political violence,” Small Wars & Insurgencies, vol. 30, no. 1, 2019, pp. 255-262.
Non-Peer Reviewed Publications
Wall, Christopher, “The Robots Will Not Save Us: The Limits of Machine Learning for Counterterrorism,” Global Network on Extremism & Technology, November 4, 2021, https://gnet-research.org/2021/11/04/the-robots-will-not-save-us-the-limits-of-machine-learning-for-counterterrorism/
Wall, Christopher, “As machine learning becomes standard in military and politics, it needs moral safeguards,” The Hill, October 30, 2021, https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/579132-as-machine-learning-becomes-standard-in-military-and-politics-it-needs
Wall, Christopher, “The challenge of right-wing extremism is bigger than Donald Trump and his presidency,” The Hill, March, 17 2021, https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/543425-the-challenge-of-right-wing-extremism-is-bigger-than-donald-trump
Wall, Christopher, “América Latina 2050: la transición del Nuevo Mundo al envejecimiento,” La Vanguardia Dossier Nº69, Julio/Septiembre 2018, https://www.lavanguardia.com/internacional/vanguardia-dossier/revista/revista/20180615/4584615330/como-demografia-cambiara-mundo.html
Foreign and Technical Languages
Spanish
Russian
Python
R
Honors, Awards, and Fellowships
Modern War Institute at West Point Non-Resident Fellow (2019-2020)
NED’s Penn Kemble Forum Fellow (2018-2019)
Georgetown University Director’s Citizen Award (2013- 2014)
American Political Science Association Minority Fellow (2011-2013)
Ralph Bunche Summer Institute Fellow (2010)
International Law Fellow at the ICTY (2009)
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