About the Author:
Dr. Joshua Sinai is a Washington-based educator and consultant on terrorism, counterterrorism, and homeland security studies. He has worked as a senior manager for national security programs at In nity Technology, LLC, in McLean, VA, and as an Associate Professor for Research at Virginia Tech s Research Center - Arlington, which he joined in April 2010. Some of the highlights of his professional career include working at the Department of Homeland Security s (DHS) Science & Technology Directorate in 2004-05, where he managed a project on the social and behavioral components of terrorism, including assessing the impact of terrorist attacks on society. While at DHS, Dr. Sinai served on a White House Office of Science & Technology Policy s (OSTP) interagency working group, which produced a report on the contribution of the social, behavioral, and economic sciences to counterterrorism. He also served on the DHS team that developed the solicitation, and evaluated the proposals, to create a new university center on these issues. From 2006 to April 2010, Dr. Sinai worked as a program manager on counterterrorism studies at The Analysis Corporation (TAC) (later known as Sotera Defense Solutions), which was led at the time by John Brennan, President Obama s counterterrorism adviser. From 2008 to 2010, Dr. Sinai was a member of a TAC team at a U.S. government counterterrorism operations center. Dr. Sinai has published more than 80 articles and book reviews on terrorism, counterterrorism and insider threats-related topics in academic publications, magazines, and newspapers. Dr. Sinai holds a Ph.D. in Political Science, with a specialization in Comparative Politics and the Middle East, from Columbia University.
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