Education: AB, Government and History, Connecticut College 1976; BPhil, International Relations, University of Oxford 1978; DPhil, International Relations, University of Oxford 1986

Career: Bruce Hoffman is Professor in the Security Studies Program in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, Washington, DC and has been studying terrorism and insurgency for thirty years. Professor Hoffman previously held the Corporate Chair in Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency at the RAND Corporation and was also Director of RAND’s Washington, DC Office. From 2001–04 he served as RAND’s Vice-President for External Affairs and in 2004 he also was Acting Director of RAND’s Center for Middle East Public Policy. Professor Hoffman was adviser on counterterrorism to the Office of National Security Affairs, Coalition Provisional Authority, Baghdad, Iraq during the spring of 2004, and from 2004–05 was an adviser on counterinsurgency to the Strategy, Plans, and Analysis Office at Multi-National Forces-Iraq Headquarters, Baghdad. He was also an adviser to the Iraq Study Group (Baker-Hamilton Commission), serving on the Military and Security Experts Working Group. Professor Hoffman is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Terrorism and Counterterrorism Program, Human Rights Watch, New York, NY, a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC, a Senior Fellow at the Combating Terrorism Center, US Military Academy, West Point, NY, a Senior Fellow at the National Security Studies Center at Haifa University, Israel, and a Visiting Professor at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He was the founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St Andrews in the UK, where he was also Reader in International Relations and Chairman of the Department of International Relations. Professor Hoffman is a regular contributor to the Atlantic Monthly and was the author of ‘The Logic of Suicide Terrorism’, which was the cover story of the June 2003 issue. He was a Fellow and C. V. Starr Distinguished Visitor at the American Academy of Berlin, Germany in 2006. Bruce Hoffman is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Studies in Conflict and Terrorism (see url below) and a member of the Advisory Board of Terrorism and Political Violence.

Honours and awards: US Intelligence Community Seal Medallion 1994

Publications include: Inside Terrorism 1998 (revised and updated edition 2006); numerous articles in professional journals

Contact details: Address: School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, 214 3600 N Street, NW, Washington, DC 20057, USA; Tel: +1 202-687-7847; Email: brh6@georgetown.edu ; Website: http://www12.georgetown.edu/sfs/ ; Website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/1057610X.asp/ .