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Biography
Superintendent Grignard has been assigned to the anti-terrorist department of the gendarmerie (then the Federal Police) since 1980 and from 2000 to the present he has served as Superintendent, Assistant Director at the anti-terrorist division of the Federal Police in Brussels.

In addition to his police assignments Superintendent Grignard has compiled a distinguished academic career as an expert on political Islam. His educational achievements including:

• Attaché, Institute of Philology and Oriental History (IPHO) and the Center of Religious Studies and Secularity (CIERL) at the "Université Libre de Bruxelles - ULB (since1993).
• In charge of education at the "ESCLA" and "IHESI" in Paris
• Master of Conference at the University of Liège (Department of Political Science). Teaching the course "Elements of introduction to the Islamic politic".
• In charge of education at "The Royal Superior Institute of defense" (IRSD) at the Royal Military School (ERA)
• Member of the French Association for the study of the Arab and Muslim world.
• Member of the Royal Institute of International relations (IRRI) in Brussels
• Member of the Geopolitical Observatory of Organized Crime (OGCI)
• Numerous educational activities including academic and Police conferences. (including 2004 training conferences in Brussels in partnership with "Panthéon" – Sorbonne , in Switzerland and Brazil)

In addition to his distinguished Police and educational work Superintendent Grignard has published extensively on Islamism, Islamic armed groups, Islamic propaganda and myths and organizational methods..

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Session IN12:
20 years of activities of Islamic groups in Belgium: from Islamic-nationalism to internationalization
February 18, 10:00 - 10:45 Abstract:
It is to demonstrate; after the dismantling of different networks since the 90's in Belgium, the process of globalization of the groups, via the ideological basis of the Taliban in London and Afghanistan. This is where the fusion amongst the different groups bearing the project of "Islamic Nationalism" took place and the holders of a "Global Islam" regrouped around Osama Bin Laden while structuring Al Qaeda, heir to the "Office of Services to the Moujahedin", which was founded during the Soviet conflict.