Professor of Security Studies at Georgetown University and Director of its Security Studies Program, he's been appointed by Congress to an independent commission to review the FBI's Post-9/11 Response to Terrorism and Radicalization; author of Anonymous Soldiers: The struggle for Israel 1917-1947, The Evolution of the Global Terrorist Threat: From 9/11 to Osama bin Laden's Death and Inside Terrorism; former senior fellow at West Point's Combating Terrorism Center; former terrorism expert with RAND Corporation and founding director of the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland
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