Daniel L. Byman | |
Other Names: | Daniel Byman |
Birth Name: | Daniel L. Byman |
Birth Place: | United States |
Education: | Amherst College (BA) |
Alma Mater: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) |
Occupation: | Professor |
Employer: | Georgetown University |
Daniel L. Byman (born 1967[1]) is one of the world's leading researchers on terrorism, Counterterrorism and the Middle East.[2] Dr. Byman is 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 advises high-level policy makers and tech companies. He is Senior Advisor to the U.S. Department of State as part of the International Security Advisory Board. He is also a senior fellow with the Transnational Threats Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a bipartisan think tank analyzing global issues. He is the Foreign Policy Editor for Lawfare, a "publication dedicated to hard national security choices."[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 a distinguished teacher and is the lead course instructor for Georgetown's massive open online course on Terrorism and Counter Terrorism.
He writes about a range of topics related to terrorism, insurgency, intelligence, social media, artificial intelligence, Iran, and other Middle East security issues. He is the author or co-author of almost 200 academic and policy articles.
His most recent book is Spreading Hate: The White Power Movement Goes Global (Oxford, 2022)
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 a political analyst for the U.S. government.[7] He holds a BA from Amherst College and a PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Byman's most recent 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.[8]
Byman's publications include the books A High Price:The Triumphs and Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism, The Five Front War: A Better Way to Fight Global Jihad, Things Fall Apart: Containing the Spillover From an Iraqi Civil War, Keeping the Peace: Lasting Solutions to Ethnic Conflicts, and Deadly Connections: States That Sponsor Terrorism.[9] Byman has written extensively on a range of topics related to terrorism, international security, civil and ethnic conflict, and the Middle East. He is a frequent contributor to Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy and The Washington Post, and his work has appeared in a range of scholarly and policy journals.