Dr. Matthew Levitt has spent his entire career on the front­line in the glob­al bat­tle against ter­ror­ism. The direc­tor of The Wash­ing­ton Insti­tute for Near East Pol­i­cy’s Stein Pro­gram on Coun­tert­er­ror­ism and Intel­li­gence, Dr. Levitt is one of Washington’s lead­ing experts on com­bat­ing inter­na­tion­al ter­ror­ist net­works, a schol­ar, and for­mer gov­ern­ment offi­cial. He is a fre­quent con­trib­u­tor to the media, includ­ing the Wall Street Jour­nal and Wash­ing­ton Post. Dr. Levitt, a for­mer coun­tert­er­ror­ism intel­li­gence ana­lyst at the Fed­er­al Bureau of Inves­ti­ga­tion (FBI), served from 2005 to 2007 as deputy assis­tant sec­re­tary for intel­li­gence and analy­sis at the U.S. Depart­ment of the Trea­sury. In 2008 – 2009, he was a State Depart­ment coun­tert­er­ror­ism advi­sor to the spe­cial envoy for Mid­dle East region­al secu­ri­ty, Gen. James L. Jones. Dr. Levitt earned a B.A. from Yeshi­va Uni­ver­si­ty and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Tufts Uni­ver­si­ty’s Fletch­er School of Law and Diplomacy.