Majeed Khader

Majeed Khader is the Director of the Home Team Behavioural Sciences Centre under the Ministry of Home Affairs, and Deputy Director of the Police Psychological Services Division. Dr Majeed is also the Chief Psychologist of the Singapore Police Force. A trained hostage negotiator, his previous operational duties include being the ex-Deputy Commander of the Crisis Negotiation Unit and a trainer with the negotiation unit. He teaches criminal psychology part time as an Assistant Professor (Adjunct) at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Nanyang Technology University, Singapore. For the past 23 years, Dr Majeed has overseen the development of psychological services in the areas of stress, resilience, employee selection, deception psychology, leadership, crisis negotiations, crime profiling, and crisis psychology. For his work on the psychology of terrorism, he was awarded the National Day Public Administration Award (Bronze) in 2006 by the President of Singapore, and once again the Public Administration Award Silver in 2014. A forensic psychologist by training, Majeed holds a Masters degree (with Distinction) in Forensic Psychology from the University of Leicester (United Kingdom) and a PhD in Psychology (specialising in personality and crisis leadership) from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. He also holds a degree in Economics and Sociology from the University of London. Dr Majeed has been invited as a speaker to organisations in Indonesia, Malaysia, Japan, Canada, Hong Kong and the United States to share on crime psychology, terrorism and leadership. He has also presented at the FBI, NCIS and the RCMP. He has been the Chairman of two major international conferences held in Singapore titled the ‘Asian Conference of Criminal and Operations Psychology’. He has been the Asian Director and sits on the board of the United States based Society of Police and Criminal Psychology. He is a Registered Psychologist with the Singapore Psychological Society, and a member of the British, and American psychological Societies. He has contributed several book chapters and published widely in peer-reviewed journal such as Journal of Research in Personality, Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, Psychology & Health, Cognition and Emotion, International Journal of Psychophysiology, Personality and Individual Differences, International Journal of Police Science & Management, Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology, Security Journal, etc.

Publications

Crime-Fake News Nexus
Xingyu Chen, John Yu, Pamela Goh, Loo Seng Neo, Verity Er, Majeed Khader. © 2020. 14 pages.
Fake news has been a popular topic since the 2016 U.S. elections, where researchers have studied its impact on politics and social unrest. In recent times, there have been cases...
What We Know and What Else We Need to Do to Address the Problem of Violent Extremism Online: Concluding Chapter
Majeed Khader. © 2020. 11 pages.
This concluding chapter is an attempt made to summarise and analyse the chapters provided by the various authors in this book. The analysis used in this chapter is based on a...
Combating Violent Extremism and Radicalization in the Digital Era
Majeed Khader, Loo Seng Neo, Gabriel Ong, Eunice Tan Mingyi, Jeffery Chin. © 2016. 582 pages.
Advances in digital technologies have provided ample positive impacts to modern society; however, in addition to such benefits, these innovations have inadvertently created a new...
What We Know and What Else We Need to Do to Address the Problem of Violent Extremism Online: Concluding Chapter
Majeed Khader. © 2016. 10 pages.
This concluding chapter is an attempt made to summarise and analyse the chapters provided by the various authors in this book. The analysis used in this chapter is based on a...