Daniel Byman: Jihadist Terrorism

Daniel Byman is a Professor and Senior Associate Dean at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. Dr. Byman has served as a Professional Staff Member with both the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks on the United States (“The 9-11 Commission”) and the Joint 9/11 Inquiry Staff of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees. He has also worked as the Research Director of the Center for Middle East Public Policy at the RAND Corporation and as an analyst of the Middle East for the U.S. intelligence community. Dr. Byman has written widely on a range of topics related to terrorism, international security, and the Middle East. His publications have appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, International Security, and numerous other scholarly, policy, and popular journalsHis books include Deadly Connections: States that Sponsor Terrorism (Cambridge 2005) and A High Price: The Triumphs and Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism (Oxford, 2011). His latest book is Al Qaeda, the Islamic State, and the Global Jihadist Movement: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford, 2015). Dr. Byman received his BA in religion from Amherst College and his Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research that influenced Daniel's career Fouad Ajami (1986) The Vanished Imam: Musa al Sadr and the Shia of Lebanon Bruce Hoffman (1998) Inside Terrorism Alan Cullinson (2004) Inside Al Qaeda's Hard Drive Some of Daniel's key research A High Price: The Triumphs and Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism (2013) Al Qaeda, the Islamic State, and the Global Jiahdist Movement (2015) Deadly Connections: States that Sponsor Terrorism (2005)