Peter Bergen
Director, National Security Studies Program, New America Foundation
Research Fellow, Center on Law and Security, New York University
National Security Analyst, CNN


Biography
Peter Bergen is the director of the National Security Studies Programat the New America Foundation and CNN’s National Security Analyst. He has held teaching positions at Harvard and at Johns Hopkins University and is the author of four books about al-Qaeda, which have been translated into twenty languages and three of which were New York Times bestsellers. Bergen is a contributing editor at The New Republic and has worked as a correspondent or producer for multiple documentaries about terrorism that have aired on National Geographic, Discovery and CNN. For CNN in 1997 Bergen produced Osama bin Laden’s first television interview. He has a degree in Modern History from Oxford.

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