Peter Bergen
Print and TV Journalist; Author; Terrorism Analyst for CNN

Peter Bergen is a print and television journalist and author. He has written about al Qaeda, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and counterterrorism for major U.S. and international newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, Foreign Affairs, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, TIME, The Guardian, The Times, The Daily Telegraph, International Herald Tribune, El Mundo, La Repubblica and Die Welt. He has worked as a correspondent for National Geographic Television, Discovery Television and CNN, reporting from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Russia, Singapore, Yemen, Mexico and Indonesia. Mr. Bergen is a Schwartz Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation, a Research Fellow at New York University’s Center on Law and Security, and an Adjunct Professor at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. In 1997, as a producer for CNN, he famously produced Osama bin Laden’s first television interview. He has written several books on terrorism, including the best-selling “The Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of al Qaeda’s Leader” (Free Press, 2006) and “Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Bin Laden” (Free Press, 2001).