Bruce Hoffman is a professor in Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, where he directs the Center for Security Studies and the Security Studies Program. Appointed by Congress to serve on the Independent Commission to Review the FBI's Post-9/11 Response to Terrorism and Radicalization, he was a lead author of the commission's final report. He also served as a counterinsurgency advisor at Multinational Force-Iraq Headquarters in 2004-2005, among other posts. His publications include Inside Terrorism (3rd ed. forthcoming in 2017) and Anonymous Soldiers: The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947, which won The Washington Institute's 2015 Book Prize.