Ten Year Anniversary of Sept. 11

Daniel Byman, professor in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and former director of Georgetown's Security Studies Program and the Center for Peace and Security Studies, served as a professional staff member with the 9/11 Commission and with the Joint 9/11 Inquiry Staff of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees. Currently a senior fellow with the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brooking Institution, he previously served as research director of the Center for Middle East Public Policy at the Rand Corporation. He has also written widely on a range of topics related to terrorism, international security and the Middle East.

Paul Pillar, director of graduate studies and core faculty member of Georgetown's Security Studies Program at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, served 28 years in the United States intelligence community before retiring in 2005 as National Intelligence Office for the Near East and South Asia. He previously served as chief of analytic units at the CIA, covering portions of the Near East, Persian Gulf and South Asia. Pillar also served in the National Intelligence Council and has been executive assistant to the CIA's Deputy Director for Intelligence and Executive Assistant to then-Director of Central Intelligence William Webster. He also headed the assessments and information group of the DCI Counterterrorist Center and from 1997-99 was deputy chief.

Mark Rom, associate professor at Georgetown Public Policy Institute, specializes in American politics and public policy, especially social welfare policy, and ethics and values in public policy. Professor Rom can discuss political culture, public opinion, and the Administration in relation to 9/11.

George Shambaugh, chair of the government department and associate professor of international affairs and government in the School of Foreign Service, is an expert in topics of international politics, foreign policy, international political economy, and the environment. He has been studying the public's perception of threats from terrorism, environmental disaster and financial crises. This research has been conducted under the auspices of a multi-year project with sponsored by the National Science Foundation on public responses to traumatic events. His most recent work in this area involves an assessment of how trust in government affects the perception of threat and the level of public support for counter terrorism policies and war-fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.

John Esposito, Professor of Religion and International Affairs and of Islamic Studies at Georgetown University, John L. Esposito is Founding Director of the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding in the Walsh School of Foreign Service. Esposito recently co-authored an opinion piece in the Huffington Post on the need for a new narrative around the West’s approach to counter-terrorism.

Fathali M. Moghaddam is a professor in the department of psychology and the director of the Conflict Resolution Program in the department of government. He is an Iranian-born, English-educated scholar, who came to Georgetown in 1990 via work at McGill University and the United Nations. He has published extensively on intergroup relations, justice, radicalization, terrorism, and globalization. His most recent book is The New Global Insecurity (2010). More details about his research can be found at fathalimoghaddam.com. Dr. Moghaddam’s essay “The Post-Tragedy ‘Opportunity-bubble’ and the Prospect of Citizen Engagement” recently appeared in Homeland Security Affairs: The 9/11 Essays, a series of reflective essays with authors including Secretaries Napolitano, Chertoff and Ridge, and Assistant Secretary Stockton.