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.
My network of professionals working on countering hate in all its forms grew exponentially after attending Eradicate Hate in 2021. The myriad voices represented at Eradicate Hate, from big tech companies to academic researchers to those with lived experience, reinforced to me the importance of cross-cutting and collaborative approaches to counter hate and its devastating impacts on society. I’ve been fortunate to sustain and build those networks with many of those I met at Eradicate Hate in 2021.
