Daniel L. Byman | |
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![]() Byman in March 2012 | |
Born | Daniel L. Byman 1967 (age 57–58) |
Education | Amherst College (BA) |
Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) |
Occupation | Political scientist |
Employer | Georgetown University |
Daniel L. Byman (born 1967 [1] ) is an American political scientist. His research focuses on terrorism, Counterterrorism and the Middle East. [2] Byman is currently a professor in Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service and director of Georgetown's security studies program [3] He is a former Vice-Dean of the school.
Byman is Senior Advisor to the U.S. Department of State as part of the International Security Advisory Board, a senior fellow with the Transnational Threats Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and the Foreign Policy Editor for Lawfare. [4]
Byman played key roles in the post 9/11 intelligence committees and in many distinguished think tanks. He was a senior fellow at the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. [5] He was also the research director of the Center for Middle East Public Policy at the RAND Corporation. [6]
He is also the lead course instructor for Georgetown's massive open online course on Terrorism and Counter Terrorism.
Byman holds a BA from Amherst College and a PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [7]
Byman was a professional staff member on both the 9/11 Commission and the Joint 9/11 Inquiry staff of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees.
Early in his career, he served as an analyst for the U.S. government. [8]
Byman's book Road Warriors: Foreign Fighters in the Armies of Jihad, published by Oxford University Press in 2019, provides a sweeping history of the jihadist foreign fighter movement. He also authored the book, Al Qaeda, the Islamic State, and the Global Jihadist Movement: What Everyone Needs to Know, published by Oxford University Press in 2015. [9]
His most recent book is Spreading Hate: The White Power Movement Goes Global (Oxford, 2022). [10]
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