Amanda van Eck Duymaer van Twist, Ph.D., is the Deputy Director of
Inform, a non-profit information centre specializing in alternative religious
movements, based at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
Her Ph.D., completed at the LSE in the Department of Sociology, examined the
second generation of sectarian movements and the impact their "segregated
childhoods" have had. As part of her work at Inform she has encountered many
individuals affected by alternative religious movements, and frequently writes
in-depth reports on particular new and/or alternative religions, or issues
pertaining to such groups.