Dr. G.G. (Giliam) de Valk

About Gilliam

Giliam de Valk is an independent consultant affiliated with the Knowledge Centre. He has an extensive track record in providing training to professionals from both operational fields and government sectors. He is capable of delivering courses to the corporate sector, police, and government, as well as to highly trained analysts from international organisations. He is well-versed in both the intelligence and security domains, as well as the relevant related fields, enabling him to draw meaningful connections during teaching and consultancy work. He possesses both strong academic knowledge and practical experience within the (inter)national community. Nowadays, as a freelancer, he mainly works for government clients. In 2021, he was awarded the Scientific Excellence Award by the Zagreb Security Forum.

After completing his PhD on intelligence analysis in 2005, he gained extensive experience as a university lecturer in teaching intelligence and analytical techniques. At an academic level, he was the initiator of all three bachelor’s minors in intelligence studies ever offered in the Netherlands. These are, respectively: the Intelligence Studies minor at the University of Amsterdam (Ad de Jonge Centre) from 2007–2017; its successor, the Intelligence Studies minor at ISGA, The Hague Campus, Leiden University (2017–present); and the Intelligence Studies minor at the Netherlands Defence Academy (NLDA), Breda, where he taught from 2010–2012. He has also lectured on counter-insurgency and counter-terrorism (Utrecht University and NLDA), humanitarian interventions, military strategic thinkers, and Clausewitz (Utrecht University). This broad orientation ensures that he also masters the relevant disciplines connected to the intelligence and security domain.

Publications

Vaandrager, Leeuwenkamp, De Valk, A Horizonscan Based on a System Analysis, In: Holjevac e.a., Miroslav Tudman. 2023.
Valk, G.G. de, Analytic Black Holes: a data-oriented perspective, National Security and the Future, Vol. 23 No. 1, 2022.
Valk, G.G. de & Onno Goldbach, Towards a robust β research design: on reasoning and different classes of unknowns, Journal of Intelligence History, Pages 72-87 (Published online: 20 Oct 2020).
Valk, G.G., On Screening and the Insider Threat – A Methodological Exploration. National Security and the Future, Volume 20, br. 1-2, 2019.
Valk, G.G., Case studies into the Unknown – Logic & Tooling. Romanian Intelligence Studies Review no. 21/2019, 243-268.
Boeke S. & Valk G.G. de (2019), The Unforeseen 2012 Crisis in Mali: The Diverging Outcomes of Risk and Threat Analyses, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism.
Valk G.G. de (2018), Critical Infrastructure and The Unknown: A Methodological Quest, National Security and the Future 19(1-2): 15-44.
Valk G.G. de & Aerdts W.J.M. (2018), Inlichtingenwerk vanuit een methodologisch perspectief, Justitiële Verkenningen 44(1): 114-132.
Aerdts W.J.M. & Valk G.G. de (2018), Privacy from an intelligence perspective. In: Sloot B. van der, Groot A. de (red.) The Handbook of Privacy Studies: An Interdisciplinary Introduction.: Amsterdam University Press. 263-294.
Valk, Giliam de, Roy Lindelauf & Nico Timmermans, “Headquarters Anonymous.” Ducheine, Osinga, Soeters, Cyber Warfare, Critical Perspectives, Asser Press/NL Arms: 2012, 185-197.
Lindelauf, Roy & Giliam de Valk, “Het verschijnsel Al Qaeda: op zoek naar de geheimen van Escher.” Osinga, Soeters, Van Rossum, Nine Eleven: tien jaar later, NL Arms: 2011, 182-199.
Valk, Giliam de, “All-source intelligence,” in: De Graaf, Muller, Van Reijn, Inlichtingen- en veiligheidsdienten, Kluwer: 2010, 507-533
Valk, Giliam de, Dutch Intelligence: Towards a Qualitative Framework for Analysis. Den Haag: Boom juridisch, 2005.