Dr. Anat Berko is a world-renowned expert on terrorism whose research focuses on suicide bombers and their handlers. She conducted research for Israel’s counterterrorism team and Israel’s National Security Council, and has served as an advisor to senior government officials. She was a visiting professor at George Washington University and a research fellow at the International Institute for Counterterrorism at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliyya. She also lectured at the IDC’s Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Security, and on counter-terrorism for NATO and before the Congress, the State Department, the FBI and the U.S. armed forces, and many universities throughout the United States and abroad. She was a lecturer at Israel’s National Defense College and the coordinator of its counter-terrorism program.

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Dr. Anat Berko is married to Middle East expert, Dr. Reuven Berko, and mother of three.