Dr Jacqueline Sebire is the Executive Director of Thinking Blue Line. She is an experienced strategic practitioner in policing, leadership, innovation, organizational change, and an applied criminologist. She delivers specialist training in crisis management, innovation and future foresight, risk perception, decision-making under uncertainty, and institutional responses to harm. She designs and delivers bespoke consultancy, training, and advisory services tailored to organizational context, risk profile, and strategic objectives. She previously served as an Assistant Professor at Rabdan Academy in Abu Dhabi (2024–2025) and is an affiliated lecturer at the University of Cambridge.
Prior to academia, Jacqueline served for over 30 years as a senior operational and strategic police commander in the United Kingdom, attaining the rank of Assistant Chief Constable. Her leadership experience included major and specialist crime, firearms command, and multi-agency major incident command.
Jacqueline’s expertise sits at the intersection of executive leadership, complex investigations, safeguarding, and evidence-based practice, with particular depth in domestic abuse, coercive control, and gender-based violence against women and girls. She is widely published in peer-reviewed outlets and has contributed to international policy and research forums, including the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women.
Since 2025, Jacqueline has worked as an independent academic and research consultant, providing specialist advisory, research, and training support across higher education, policing, and professional practice, including work with Rabdan Academy programmers, Dubai Police, the Police Executive Research Forum (USA), and PwC Middle East.