When: Monday, March 15th, 2010 @ 6:00pm
Where: University of Ottawa Desmarais Building (DMS 3120)
What: Matthew Levitt is a senior fellow and director at the Washington Institute’s Stein Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence. He is also a professorial lecturer in international relations and strategic studies at John Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). From 2005 to early 2007, he served as a deputy assistant secretary for intelligence and analysis at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, playing a central role in efforts to protect the U.S. financial system from abuse and to deny terrorists, weapons proliferators, and other rogue actors the ability to Finance threats to the U.S. national security. Dr. Levitt has written extensively on terrorism, the Middle East, and Arab-Israeli peace negotiations, with articles appearing in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Baltimore Sun, Weekly Standard, Daily Star (Beirut), Jerusalem Post, The Australian, National Post (Canada), and numerous other publications. He is also a frequent guest on the national and international media, including NPR, CNN, BBC, FOX News, ABC, CBS, and NBC. His latest books include Hamas: Politics, Charity and Terrorism in the Service of the Jihad (Yale University Press, 2006) and Negotiating Under Fire: Preserving Peace Talks in the Face of Terror Attacks (Rowman &Littlefield, 2008)
