Meet the Experts

The CELL Exhibit was developed in partnership with preeminent scholars and practitioners in the fields of counterterrorism, national and global security, foreign affairs and public safety. Learn more about these distinguished subject matter experts and their contributions below.

Bruce Hoffman

Professor and Director, Center for Jewish Civilization (CJC), Georgetown University

Paul Cruickshank

Editor-in-Chief, CTC Sentinel & Terrorism Analyst, CNN

Zainab Al-Suwaij

Co-Founder and Executive Director, American Islamic Congress

Juan Carlos Zarate

Global Co-Managing Partner and Chief Strategy Officer, K2 Integrity

Thomas M. Sanderson

Geopolitical Risk Consultant

John McLaughlin

Distinguished Practitioner-in-Residence at the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies

George Selim

Senior Advisor to the CEO, Anti-Defamation League

Elizabeth Neumann

Chief Strategy Officer at Moonshot; National Security Analyst at ABC News; former Assistant Secretary for Counterterrorism at DHS

Samuel Rascoff

Faculty Director, NYU Center on Law and Security

Clifford D. May

Founder and President, Foundation for Defense of Democracies

Jonathan Schanzer

Senior Vice President for Research, Foundation for Defense of Democracies

Emanuele Ottolenghi

Senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies

Thomas Joscelyn

Senior Fellow and Senior Editor of FDD's Long War Journal, Foundation for Defense of Democracies

Bill Roggio

Senior Fellow and Editor of FDD's Long War Journal, Foundation for Defense of Democracies

Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

CEO, Valens Global; Senior Advisor on Asymmetric Warfare, Foundation for Defense of Democracies

Reuel Marc Gerecht

Senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies

Jenny Presswalla

Acting Director of the Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships, DHS

Christian Picciolini

Counter-Extremism Specialist

Tom O'Connor

Principal Consultant, FEDSquared Consulting; former FBI Special Agent