Boaz Ganor

A biographical note states:

Dr. Boaz Ganor is the deputy dean of the Lauder School of Government and Diplomacy at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya. He is also the founder and the Executive Director of the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT - http://www.ict.org.il). He is a member of Israel’s National Committee for Homeland Security Technologies, of the International Advisory Board of Institute of Defense and Strategic Studies, (IDSS), Singapore, and of the International Advisory team of the Manhattan Institute (CTCT) to the New-York Police Department (NYPD). Dr. Ganor lectures on Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism at the High Command Academic Courses of the Israel’s Defense Forces, as well as at the Lauder School of Government and Diplomacy, and other Academic and International forums. Boaz Ganor obtained his B.A. in Political Sciences from Hebrew University, and his M.A. in Political Studies from Tel-Aviv University (thesis: “Terrorism and Public Opinion in Israel”). His Ph.D. thesis for the Hebrew University was on “Israel’s Counter-Terrorism Strategy”. Dr. Ganor served as a consultant to Israeli Government Ministries on Counter-Terrorism. From 1989 to 2003, he was a member of the trilateral—Palestinian, Israeli, American—Committee on Incitement, established under the Wye Accords. Boaz Ganor is the author of numerous articles on counter-terrorism published in Israel and abroad.

Affiliations

• International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research, International Advisory Council
• International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence, leadership
• Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism, Senior Fellow