Dr. Matthew Levitt
Senior Fellow & Director of the Counterterrorism Program, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy; Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University
2023, 2024
Dr. Matthew Levitt is the Fromer-Wexler Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy where he directs the Institute’s Reinhard Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence. Previously, Levitt served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis at the U.S. Department of the Treasury and before that as an FBI counterterrorism analyst, including work on the Millennial and September 11th plots. He also served as a State Department counterterrorism advisor to Gen James L. Jones, the special envoy for Middle East regional security.
Levitt teaches at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and the Center for Jewish Civilization and has previously taught at Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and sits on the advisory boards of several think tanks around the world.
Widely published, Levitt is the author of Hezbollah: The Global Footprint of Lebanon’s Party of God (Georgetown, 2013 & updated 2024) and Hamas: Politics, Charity and Terrorism in the Service of Jihad (Yale, 2006).
Dr. Levitt runs a CVE working group of some 1500 experts and practitioners around the world that meets virtually several times a month.
It is a tragic reality that hateful ideology has found fertile ground online and offline, with consequences affecting not only Americans but people around the world. We cannot stand idle in the face of bias, bigotry, and extremism. Together, at the Eradicate Hate Summit and beyond, the collective will of individuals and organizations is needed to galvanize all people of good will to protect and defend our communities.
