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Biographies
Spencer Ackerman's 25-year work as a national-security reporter for outlets like Wired, The Guardian and The Daily Beast has earned him a Pultizer Prize (shared), a National Magazine Award, an Investigative Reporters & Editors Medal, and other accolades. His book Reign of Terror: How The 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump won a 2022 American Book Award and was named a book of the year by the New York Times critics, the Washington Post, Foreign Policy and the PBS NewsHour. Ackerman lives in his native Brooklyn with his family and publishes the newsletter Forever Wars.
Dr. Colin P. Clarke is the Executive Director of The Soufan Center (TSC), an independent nonprofit research organization based in New York City.
Clarke is recognized internationally as a highly-regarded terrorism expert. At TSC, Dr. Clarke's research focuses on domestic and transnational terrorism, international security, and geopolitics. Previously, Dr. Clarke was a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, where he taught courses on terrorism, insurgency, and conflict to undergraduate and graduate students at the Institute for Politics & Strategy. He was also a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation, where he spent a decade researching terrorism, insurgency, and criminal networks.
Dr. Clarke has published several books on terrorism and irregular warfare, including After the Caliphate: The Islamic State and the Future Terrorist Diaspora.
Clarke serves on the editorial board of three of the leading scholarly journals in the field of terrorism studies, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Terrorism and Political Violence, and Perspectives on Terrorism. Clarke has testified before Congress on numerous occasions as an expert witness on a range of terrorism-related issues and appears frequently in the media to discuss national security-related matters. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Eradicate Hate Global Summit and as an Honorary Senior Adviser to Tech Against Terrorism.
He received his Ph.D. in international security policy from the University of Pittsburgh and is an affiliated scholar at the Matthew B. Ridgway Center for International Security Studies at Pitt's School of Public and International Affairs.
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