Lionel von Frederick Rawlins Ficj

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT LIONEL VON FREDERICK RAWLINS FICJ

Dr. Lionel C. M. von Frederick Rawlins is the Vice President of Safety and Security Systems Management at the American University of Nigeria. He is also Director of the Center for Conflict Analysis, Early Warning, and Peace Building, as well as an Associate Professor. Prior, he was the Director General of the Center for Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance. Dr. Rawlins is the President and Chairman of the Governing Council of the Institute of Criminal Justice and Criminology Administration,(the only one in Africa) and also a Fellow. He is a Fellow of the Environment and Safety Management Institute (FESMI), a Fellow of the International Institute of Professional Security (FIIPS), and a Distinguished Fellow of the Institute of Leadership Manpower and Management Development (DFILMMD). He is a Certified Safety Manager (CESM) and is the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate (honoris causa/ad honorem). Dr. Rawlins is a trained, sought-after Hostage Negotiator and an experienced Corporate Strategic Crisis Manager. He has presented before Members of Congress, the United States Institute of Peace, the Department of Defense, the Pentagon, and the National Press Club in Washington DC. He has also provided Executive Security and Protective Services for many world leaders and Ambassadors and Embassy Officials. As a scholar, Dr. Rawlins has published and presented at international conferences and seminars, given keynote addresses, and served on television and radio as an international security analyst and expert. He has written and co-authored several books including the popular Satanic Cults and Ritualistic Crimes. He has also been featured in several distinguished magazines such as The Smithsonian, The Economist, Rotarian, National Geographic, and many international news publications. He has also appeared on GoTel Africa, NTA, BBC, Fox News, CBC Canada, and Al Jazeera to name a few. Dr. Rawlins is president and founder of The VonFrederick Group, a Sacramento, California, based counter-terrorism and criminological organization, as well as a sister agency, VonFrederick Global Security - Africa, based on the African continent. Dr. Rawlins has also lectured at Gakushuin University, in Tokyo, Japan and is a lecturer/trainer at the Rwanda Defence Force Command and Staff College. Dr. Rawlins also worked as the Executive Director of a facility that housed teenage female gang-members involved in drugs, prostitution and extremely violent crimes. He was the administrator of another facility for extremely violent adolescent boys affiliated with gangs.