Quintan Wiktorowicz is the co-founder and managing partner of Affinis Labs (www.affinislabs.com), focused on building an ecosystem of private sector solutions to global challenges. He also serves as an advisor for international efforts to leverage the tools and principles of entrepreneurship and innovation to promote peace, combat human trafficking, and tackle climate change. He previously served in two senior positions at the White House, where he was responsible for national security engagement policies that leverage diplo­macy, com­munications, development assistance, and community outreach. Prior to joining the White House, Quintan developed ground breaking counter-radicalization initiatives for the Intelligence Community and the Depart­ment of State. Before his government service, he was one of Amer­ica’s leading academics on the Muslim World, publishing three peer-reviewed books, an award winning audio book, and 33 arti­cles and book chapters.In his last role in government, he served as the White House’s first Senior Director for Community Partnerships at the National Security Council, focused on maximizing the federal government’s capacity to collab­orate with communities, businesses, and the American public to address homeland security priori­ties. In this posi­tion, he led an interagency committee involving 22 agencies to support cross-sector collab­ora­tion for homeland security priorities, including countering violent extremism, combating human trafficking, coun­tering transnational gang recruitment, and building initiatives with diaspora communities. He also established the first director positions for national security innovation at the White House and supported the use of open innovation, human-centered design, and principles of entrepreneurship to catalyze new approaches to national security. Quintan also served as the Senior Director for Global Engagement at the White House, where he planned, directed, and coordinated national security engagement policies that leveraged diplo­macy, com­munications, development assistance, and community outreach. He developed the country’s first na­tional strategy for countering violent extremism and was responsible for U.S. Government partnerships with Muslim communities throughout the world in areas of mutual interest, including security, science and technology, education, health, and entrepreneurship.Prior to his roles at the White House, Quintan was a senior advisor for the U.S. Embassy in London and established the Department of State’s first embassy-based counter-radicalization pro­gram, focused on partnering with Muslim communities at the grassroots level to counter violent extremism. The program has since been expanded to multiple countries and regions. He has served as chair of the Interagency Intelligence Subcommittee on Radicalization and was a senior analyst for the Intelligence Community, where he supported counterterrorism op­era­tions and helped build the U.S. Government’s analytic capabilities for countering violent extremism. Quintan received his Ph.D. in political science from American University, studied Islam in Cairo with an al-Azhar shaykh, and conducted fieldwork on violent extremism in Jordan and the UK, where he witnessed radicalization first hand. He was a Fulbright Scholar; professor at Rhodes Col­lege, Dartmouth College, and Shippensburg University; and Scholar-in-Residence for the U.S. Government.