Daniel Benjamin

Daniel Benjamin

Daniel Benjamin is Director of the Center on the United States and Europe at the Brookings Institution. He is a former journalist and White House advisor and is considered an expert on jihadist terrorism.

Education and career

Benjamin graduated from Harvard College in 1983 and was awarded an M.A. by Oxford University in 1985. Below is a summary of Benjamin's carrer from the Brookings Institution:

TIME Magazine (1988-1992)

Wall Street Journal (1993-1994)

Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and Presidential Speechwriter, the National Security Council, the White House (1994-1997)

Director for Transnational Threats, the National Security Council, the White House (1998-1999)

Senior Fellow, the United States Institute of Peace (2000)

Senior Fellow, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) (2001-2006)

Director of the Center on the United States and Europe, the Brookings Institution (Dec 2006-present)

Publications

• Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon, The next attack : the failure of the war on terror and a strategy for getting it right (New York: Times Books, 2005) (ISBN: 9780805079418; 0805079416)
• Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon, The age of sacred terror (New York, Random House, 2002) (ISBN: 0375508597; 9780375508592)

Affiliations

Organisations

• United States Institute of Peace, former Senior Fellow
• Center for Strategic and International Studies, former Senior Fellow

Individuals

Steven Simon, co-author