Daniel L. Byman

Research Director, Saban Center for Middle East Policy | Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Saban Center for Middle East Policy

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A move to reconstitute al Qaeda by increasing its affiliate organizations is underway. These mergers aren’t wholly effective, however, and tensions between al Qaeda’s core and its affiliates could be exploited, notes Senior Fellow Daniel Byman.

Daniel Byman focuses on counterterrorism and Middle East security. He is also a professor at Georgetown University's Security Studies Program. He served as a staff member on the 9/11 Commission and worked for the U.S. government. His most recent book is A High Price: The Triumphs and Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism.

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Expertise

  • Middle East security
  • terrorism

Experience

Current Positions

  • Professor in the Security Studies Program of the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University

Past Positions

  • Director of the Center for Peace and Security Studies and the Security Studies Program at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
  • Staff Member, 9/11 Commission
  • Professional Staff Member, Joint 9/11 Inquiry, U.S. House and Senate Intelligence Committees (2001-2002)
  • Policy Analyst and Director for Research, Center for Middle East Public Policy, The RAND Corporation (1997-2002)
  • Political Analyst, U.S. Government (1990-1993)

Education

  • Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997
  • B.A., Amherst College, 1989

Featured Books

  • A High Price: The Triumphs and Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism

    Daniel L. Byman

  • The Arab Awakening

    America and the Transformation of the Middle East

    Akram Al-Turk , Pavel K. Baev, Daniel L. Byman, Michael Doran, Khaled Elgindy, Stephen R. Grand, Shadi Hamid, Bruce Jones, Suzanne Maloney, Jonathan D. Pollack, Kenneth M. Pollack, Bruce Riedel, Ruth H. Santini, Salman Shaikh, Ibrahim Sharqieh, Ömer Taşpınar, Shibley Telhami and Sarah Yerkes

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