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The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs & Islam in the West Program will host a Directors' Seminar with Marc Sageman on Thursday April 10th in the Belfer Center Library (L369).
Marc Sageman is a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, an independent researcher on terrorism and the founder of Sageman Consulting, LLC. He is the author of the best-seller Understanding Terror Networks and most recently Leaderless Jihad. As an expert on Al Qaeda and related terrorist organizations, he has consulted with various branches of the U.S. government, including the National Security Council, the Department of Defense, the Combatant Commanders, the National Laboratories, the Department of Homeland Security, various agencies in the U.S. intelligence community, the U.S. Secret Service, the New York Police Department, and other law enforcement agencies.
After a tour as a flight surgeon in the U.S. Navy, he joined the Central Intelligence Agency and spent a year on the Afghan Task Force, where he was stationed in Islamabad. During this time he ran the U.S. unilateral programs with the Afghan Mujahedin. After his stint at the CIA he returned to medicine and completed a residency in psychiatry at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
He holds various academic positions at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Maryland, and national think tanks including FPRI and the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He is a graduate of Harvard College and obtained an M.D. and a Ph.D. in sociology from New York University.
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