Mr. Peter BERGEN

Peter Bergen is a vice president at New America, CNN national security analyst, professor of practice at Arizona State University, and the author or editor of ten books, three of which were New York Times bestsellers and four of which were named among the best non-fiction books of the year by the Washington Post. The books have been translated into twenty-four languages, and documentaries based on them have been nominated for two Emmys and won the Emmy for best documentary. He hosts the Audible podcast “In the Room with Peter Bergen.”

Bergen is the chairman of the Global SOF Foundation, a member of the Homeland Security Experts Group, a fellow at Fordham University’s Center on National Security, and on the editorial board of Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, a leading scholarly journal. He has held teaching positions at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. He has testified before US Congressional committees eighteen times about national security issues. Bergen has hosted, produced, or executive produced multiple documentaries for CNN, Discovery, HBO, National Geographic, and Showtime. He has a degree in modern history from Oxford.