Peter Bergen is Vice President of Global Studies & Fellows, Director of the Future Security program at New America, and Professor of Practice in the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University. He is co-director of the Future Security Initiative and the Director of the Intelligence Community Center of Academic Excellence at ASU.
Bergen has written or edited ten books about national security issues, three of which were New York Times best sellers. The books have been translated into 24 languages and named among the best non-fiction books of the year by the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, Amazon, and Kirkus. Bergen has testified before US Congressional committees 18 times about national security issues and has held positions teaching graduate students about those issues at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School and Johns Hopkins’ School of Advanced International Studies.
Bergen is a National Security Analyst at CNN and hosts the Audible podcast, In the Room with Peter Bergen, which covers national security issues. He has written about those issues for the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, Time, and other publications worldwide. Bergen has produced multiple documentaries on national security issues for CNN, HBO, Discovery, National Geographic, and Showtime. He has been nominated for four Emmys, and an HBO film based on one of his books won the Emmy for Best Documentary.
He is the chairman of the board of the Global Special Operations Foundation, a leading non-profit advocating for the interests of Special Operations Forces, and is on the advisory council of the James Foley Legacy Foundation, a leading non-profit advocating for American hostages. He is a member of the Homeland Security Experts Group and is on the editorial board of Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, the leading academic journal in the field.