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"The Global Salafi Jihad," Belfer Center Directors' Seminar with Marc Sageman, Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania
The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs is proud to host a Director's Seminar on "The Global Salafi Jihad" with Marc Sageman, Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
After completing his education at Harvard and New York University (M.D. and Ph.D.) and spending a tour as a flight surgeon in the U.S. Navy, Marc Sageman joined the Central Intelligence Agency. He spent a year on the Afghan Task Force then went to Islamabad from 1987 to 1989, where he ran the U.S. unilateral programs with the Afghan Mujahedin, and New Delhi from 1989 to 1991. In 1991, he resigned from the agency to return to medicine.
Marc Sageman is a researcher on terrorism and a clinical assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Since 1994, he has been in the private practice of forensic and clinical psychiatry, and has had the opportunity to evaluate about 500 murderers. After 9/11/01, he started collecting biographical material on about 400 al Qaeda terrorists to test the validity of the conventional wisdom on terrorism. This research has been published as Understanding Terror Networks (University of Pennsylvania Press 2004). He has testified before the 9/11 Commission and has become a consultant on terrorism. He has lectured extensively both in the U.S. and abroad.