Michael Duffin
Senior Advisor, U.S. Department of State Bureau of Counterterrorism
2021, 2022, 2023
Michael Duffin is a senior advisor on countering violent extremism for the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Counterterrorism. He joined the State Department in 2013 as a Presidential Management Fellow and has traveled to more than 25 countries in his official capacity. Duffin received his Bachelor of Arts degree from DePaul University and earned graduate degrees in journalism from Northwestern University, public diplomacy from the University of Southern California, and international public policy from Johns Hopkins University.
At the Summit
This cannot be thought of as a conference or a summit. The stakes are simply too high and the data/conversation and methods to drive action more valuable/motivating than any gathering I have attended. I took more than 100 pages of notes and have shared them with my CBS News leadership team, anchors, producers, and correspondents. Nothing about this gathering was easy. The agony around this topic is real. But no one curious about it could ask for a more devoted, rational, or unflinching look into this dark but decipherable world.
