John Jay College "Dr. Marc Sageman: Leaderless Jihad" Mitsuru Fukuda Report, Columbia University

Dr. Marc Sageman
"Leaderless Jihad: Radicalization in the West."
Friday seminar of the semester on October 3 in Room 630T of John Jay College.
PM 2:30.Center on Terrorism.



John Jay College?CCenter on Terrorism.	Professor Charles B. Strozier

Professor Charles B. Strozier is a coodinater.	Dr. Marc Sageman

Dr. Marc Sageman	Dr. Marc Sageman and his Model

Dr. Marc Sageman, a Senior Research Fellow at our Center on Terrorism and currently the first Resident Scholar of the New York Police Department, is the founder of Sageman Consulting, LLC. He holds various academic positions at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Maryland and national think tanks, such as the Foreign Policy Research Institute.
After graduating from Harvard, he obtained an M.D. and a Ph.D. in sociology from New York University. After a tour as a flight surgeon in the U.S. Navy, he joined the Central Intelligence Agency in 1984. He spent a year on the Afghan Task Force then went to Islamabad from 1987 to 1989, where he ran the U.S. unilateral programs with the Afghan Mujahedin, and New Delhi from 1989 to 1991. In 1991, he resigned from the agency to return to medicine. He completed a residency in psychiatry at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Since 1994, he has been in the private practice of forensic and clinical psychiatry, and had the opportunity to evaluate about 500 murderers. After 9/11/01, he started collecting biographical material on some 400 al Qaeda terrorists to test the validity of the conventional wisdom on terrorism. This research has been published as Understanding Terror Networks (University of Pennsylvania Press 2004) and more recently as Leaderless Jihad (University of Pennsylvania, 2008). He may be the only individual to have testified before both the 9/11 Commission in the U.S. and the Beslan Commission in Russia. As an expert on al Qaeda and related terrorist organizations, he has consulted with various branches of the U.S. government, including the National Security Council, the Department of Defense, the Combatant Commanders, the National Laboratories, the Department of Homeland Security, various agencies in the U.S. Intelligence Community and various law enforcement agencies.
He has lectured at many universities, including Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, MIT, the University of Chicago, the University of Michigan, the University of California at Berkeley, and John's Hopkins University. He has also consulted with foreign government (France, Australia, Spain, Canada, Germany, Britain) and lectured extensively at foreign universities.