Sajjan Gohel

Sajjansinh Mayur Gohel (aka, Sajjan Gohel; born 1980) is "Director of International Security for the London-based Asia-Pacific Foundation, a terrorism think tank that researches security issues for international businesses." He runs the organisation with his father, M. J. Gohel.
As of July 2005, an individual named Sajjan Gohel is a PhD student at the London School of Economics (LSE). His supervisor is Dr Kirsten Schulze, Senior Lecturer in International History, and his research topic is "The Globalisation of Bin Ladinism: Origins, Doctrines Development and conflicts" Kirsten Schulze: Profile (Accessed: 8 November 2007).
He is the grandson of the late Jay K. Gohel, a friend of Margaret Thatcher and Conservative Party stalwart .
==Expertise==
===TV===
Gohel is regularly interviewed in the mainstream media as s terror expert. Between 1 January 2000 and 31 December 2006 he appeared 12 times on ITN and Channel four News and 15 times on BBC News and Current Affairs programmes on television.See Powerbase page: Terrorexpertise:UK Television List. Since mid 2003, Gohel has participated in a number of radio/television interviews as an expert on terrorism with the U.S., British, and Australian news media. He is variously described as functioning at the Asia-Pacific Foundation.
*By ABC News, Australia:
:*as a "security analyst": July 13, 2005.
:*as a "terror analyst": 12 July 2005.
:On Pakistan post February 2008 elections.Musharraf faces calls to resign, 20 February 2008
*By BBC:
:1 Nov 2007, Newsnight
:*no title: 6 October 2004.
:*as a "security analyst": 30 April 2004.
*By Bloomberg News:
:*as a "director at the London-based Asia Pacific Foundation, a security-analysis company": 16 September 2004.
:*as a "terrorism expert": 24 November 2004.
*By CBS News (Dallas, Texas):
:*as a "leading counterterrorism expert who works closely with British intelligence": July 7, 2005. 
*By Christian Science Monitor:
:*as a "terrorism expert": February 1, 2005. 
*By CNN:
:*no title: September 29, 2003. 
:*as "director of International Security": July 15, 2003; November 20, 2003; June 14, 2004; July 25, 2005. 
:*as an "international security analyst": April 15, 2004. 
:*as a "terrorism expert": 23 November 2003; March 18, 2004; November 11, 2004. 
*By NBC News/MSNBC:
:*as an "analyst at Asia-Pacific Foundation": 21 January 2005. 
:*as a "director of international studies at the Asia-Pacific Foundation, terrorism expert": 8 September 2004. 
*By Voice of America:
:*as a "security analyst": 11 March 2004. 
For a longer list of his TV appearances see IMdb profile.
===Print===
Quoted by:
*Sebastian Rotella, Britain to free LAX bomb suspect, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2008.
==References, Resources and Contact==
===Resources===
*Asia-Pacific Foundation
*Geo Political Research Limited
*Jay K. Gohel
*Lord Peter Inchcape
*M. J. Gohel
*Richard Cobbold
* HY501 Provisional Introductory Workshop Programme, Lent-Summer Term, 2004-05, LSE. Features Sajjan Gohel on the programme (as an MPhil to PhD upgrade candidate).
*ukdata.com - Company director listing for Sajjan Gohel.
*The Rathore Dynasty genealogy. Gives relationship between Jay K, MJ, and Sajjan Gohel.
===Articles that quote Sajjan Gohel===
*Clare Shoesmith, "Russian School Siege May Signal More Terror Attacks on Children", Bloomberg News, September 29, 2004. Gives Sajjan Gohel's age.
*Todd Bensman and Robert Riggs, "Violence-Preaching Web Magazine Linked To N. Texas Brothers," The Investigators CBS-11 News (KTVT, Dallas), February 10, 2005.
*Sajjan Gohel on the Heathrow Terror Plot: 'Transnational Terrorism's Obsession with the Aviation Industry' Interview by Jesse Brown terrorism.openDemocracy.net, undated
===References===
Gohel, Sajjan
Gohel, Sajjan