Matthew Levitt

Matthew Levitt is an American expert on Islamist terrorism. Levitt is director of the Stein Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

The Washington Institute for Near East Policy is a Washington, DC-based think tank which concerns itself with U.S.-Middle East policy. It was founded in 1985, with backing from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee , by Martin Indyk, an American lobbyist and research director for AIPAC,...

 and professorial lecturer in International Relations and Strategic Studies at Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University

The Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins, is a private research university located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Johns Hopkins also maintains full-time campuses elsewhere in Maryland, Washington, D.C., Italy, China, and Singapore...

's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies

Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies

The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies , a division of Johns Hopkins University based in Washington, D.C., is one of the world's most prestigious and leading graduate schools devoted to the study of international affairs, economics, diplomacy, and policy research and...

 (SAIS). He was deputy assistant secretary for intelligence and analysis at the U.S. Department of the Treasury (2005-07). He previously worked in anti-terrorism at the FBI.

He received his B.A.

Matthew Levitt is an American expert on Islamist terrorism. Levitt is director of the Stein Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

The Washington Institute for Near East Policy is a Washington, DC-based think tank which concerns itself with U.S.-Middle East policy. It was founded in 1985, with backing from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee , by Martin Indyk, an American lobbyist and research director for AIPAC,...

 and professorial lecturer in International Relations and Strategic Studies at Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University

The Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins, is a private research university located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Johns Hopkins also maintains full-time campuses elsewhere in Maryland, Washington, D.C., Italy, China, and Singapore...

's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies

Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies

The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies , a division of Johns Hopkins University based in Washington, D.C., is one of the world's most prestigious and leading graduate schools devoted to the study of international affairs, economics, diplomacy, and policy research and...

 (SAIS). He was deputy assistant secretary for intelligence and analysis at the U.S. Department of the Treasury (2005-07). He previously worked in anti-terrorism at the FBI.

He received his B.A. from Yeshiva University

Yeshiva University

Yeshiva University is a private university in New York City, with six campuses in New York and one in Israel. Founded in 1886, it is classified as a very high research activity university and it ranked as 50th in the US among national universities by U.S...

 and his M.A. in PhD from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy

The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy

The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, also called simply The Fletcher School, is the oldest school in the United States dedicated solely to graduate studies in international relations. It is one of the eight schools and colleges comprising Tufts University...

 at Tufts University

Tufts University

Tufts University is a private research university in Medford/Somerville, near Boston, Massachusetts, USA. The university is home to the nation's oldest graduate school of international relations, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy....

. He was a graduate research fellow at Harvard Law School's Program on Negotiation, and has taught at Johns Hopkins University. He attended high school at the Maimonides School

Maimonides School

Maimonides School is a coeducational, Modern Orthodox, Jewish day school located in Brookline, Massachusetts. The school was founded in 1937 by Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik and is named after Rabbi Moses Maimonides....

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Levitt is a frequent media commentator on terrorism.

Published works

• Hamas: Politics, Charity, and Terrorism in the Service of Jihad April 2006
• Targeting Terror: U.S. Policy toward Middle Eastern State Sponsors and Terrorist Organizations, Post-September 11 2002
• Negotiating Under Fire: Preserving Peace Talks in the Face of Terror Attacks (Rowman & Littlefield, forthcoming)

• “Hezbollah Finances: Funding the Party of God,” in Terrorism Financing and State Responses: a Comparative Perspective (Stanford University Press, 2007)
• “Hamas Social Welfare: In the Service of Terror,” in The Making of a Terrorist: Recruitment, Training, and Root Causes (New York: Praeger Publishers, 2005)
• “The Impact of Acute Security Crises on the Process of Ongoing Negotiations: Lessons from the Palestinian-Israeli Peace Process, 1993-1996” (Ph.D. dissertation, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, 2005).