Assaf Moghadam is Associate Professor at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, Israel, and Director of Academic Affairs at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT), also at IDC. He is also a non-resident fellow at the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point and a Research Affiliate of the Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) at the University of Maryland. Assaf's research examines the dynamics within and between terrorist actors. He is the author of The Globalization of Martyrdom: Al Qaeda, Salafi Jihad, and the Diffusion of Suicide Attacks (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008) and The Roots of Terrorism (Chelsea House, 2006), the editor of Militancy and Political Violence in Shiism: Trends and Patterns (Routledge, 2012) and co-editor of Fault Lines in Global Jihad: Organizational, Strategic, and Ideological Fissures (Routledge, 2011). Two of Assaf's books are listed among the top 150 books on terrorism in the journal Perspectives on Terrorism. Assaf has held pre-doctoral and post-doctoral fellowships at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, and at the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard. He holds a Ph.D. in international relations and a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy (MALD), both from The Fletcher School at Tufts University, and a B.A. in political science from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.