Dr. Matthew Levitt

Dr. Matthew Levitt is the Fromer-Wexler Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near

East Policy where he directs the Institute's Reinhard Program on Counterterrorism and

Intelligence.  Previously, Levitt served in the senior executive service as the Deputy

Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis at the U.S. Department of the

Treasury and before that as an FBI counterterrorism analyst, including work on the

Millennial and September 11th plots.  He also served as a State Department

counterterrorism advisor to Gen James L. Jones, the special envoy for Middle East

regional security (SEMERS).

Levitt has taught at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International

Studies, held fellowships with the Combating Terrorism Center aat the U.S. Military

Academy (West Point) and the Homeland Security Policy Institute at George

Washington University, is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and sits on

the advisory boards of think tanks in Washington DC, Singapore, Israel and the

United Arab Emirates.

Widely published, Dr. Levitt is the author of Hezbollah: The Global Footprint of

Lebanon’s Party of God (Georgetown University Press/Hurst Publishers, 2013). 

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