An expert on terrorism and post-traumtaic stress disorder. Policy consultant. Serves on the Hoover Institution Task Force on National Security and Law. Awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for her work on trauma and violence. Professor at Harvard Law School. Served at President Clinton’s National Security Council. Time magazine’s 100 people with bold ideas. Member of the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations. Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow. National Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Fellow of the World Economic Forum. Harvard MacArthur Fellow. Fellow at the Yaddo Colony for the Arts and the MacDowell Colony. Erikson Scholar at the Erik Erikson Institute. Inspiration for “The Peacemaker” with Nicole Kidman and George Clooney.

Authored: DENIAL: A MEMOIR OF TERROR, named one of Washington Post's Best Nonfiction of 2010; TERROR IN THE NAME OF GOD: Why Religious Militants Kill, selected by the New York Times as a notable book of the year; THE ULTIMATE TERRORISTS; and numerous articles on terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.

BS from Barnard College in chemistry. MA from MIT in chemical engineering/technology policy. PhD from Harvard University in public policy.

Learn more about her recently released book in paperback, "DENIAL: A MEMOIR."

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