Bruce Hoffman

Bruce Hoffman is Director of the RAND Corporation's Washington office.

His biog from the RAND site:

BRUCE HOFFMAN is Director of RAND’s Washington, D.C., office and holds the RAND Corporate Chair in Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency. He is one of the leading experts on terrorism and counter-terrorism in the country. He was the founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. Bruce has been awarded the United States Intelligence Community Seal Medallion, the highest level of commendation given to a non-government employee, which recognizes sustained superior performance of high value that distinctly benefits the interests and national security of the United States. He has served as a member of the U.S. Department of Defense Counter-Terrorism Advisory Board and has been a consultant to the National Academy of Sciences; the U.S. Department of Energy, the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence; the World Cup USA94 Security Planning and Management Staff; the U.S. General Accounting Office; the American Academy of Arts and Science's Religious Fundamentalism Project; and, the New York State Emergency Management Office. He is also Editor-in-Chief of Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, the leading scholarly journal in the field. He holds a doctorate in International Relations at Oxford University.