Boaz Ganor is the dean and Ronald Lauder Chair for Counter-Terrorism at the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, as well as the founder and executive director of the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism at IDC, Herzliya, Israel. Dr. Ganor also serves as the founding president of the International Academic Counter-Terrorism Community, an international association of academic institutions, experts, and researchers in fields related to the study of terrorism and counterterrorism.