Biography
Dr. Boaz Ganor is the Associate Dean of the Lauder School of Government, the founder and Executive Director of the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT), and the Head of the Homeland Security Studies Programs (Graduate Degrees, Executive Program, and Bachelor specialization) at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya, Israel. He is also the founder and Chairman of the International Academic Counter-Terrorism Community (ICTAC).
Dr. Ganor is a Senior Fellow at The Memorial Institute for Prevention of Terrorism (MIPT), Oklahoma City, USA); member of the International Advisory Council of the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research at the Institute of Defense and Strategic Studies (IDSS), Nanyang Technological University, The Republic of Singapore. Dr. Ganor is also a member of the Board of Directors of The International Centre for the Study of Radicalization and Political Violence (ICSR), a partnership of University of Pennsylvania (U.S.A.), the Interdisciplinary Center (Israel), King’s College, London, and the Regional Center on Conflict Prevention (RCCP) (Amman, Jordan). He is a member of the International Advisory Team of the Manhattan Institute (CTCT) to the New York Police Department (NYPD).
Dr. Ganor was a Member of the Israeli Delegation to the Trilateral (American- Palestinian-Israeli) Committee for Monitoring Incitement to Violence and Terrorism and a Member of The Israeli National Committee for Homeland Security Technologies. He served as advisor on Counter-Terrorism topics to the Israeli Ministry of Defense, the Israeli Counter-Terrorism Coordinator at the Prime Minister’s Office, Israel’s National Security Council, and the Israeli Ministry of Transportation during the peace talks with Jordan. He also advised Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on his book Fighting Terrorism – How Democracies can Defeat Domestic and International Terrorism.
Dr. Ganor has published numerous articles on terrorism and counter-terrorism. His latest book, The Counter-Terrorism Puzzle – A Guide for Decision Makers (Transaction Publishers, 2005), is being used as a textbook in many universities worldwide. He is also editor of Post Modern Terrorism, (Transaction Publishers, 2006) and co-editor of Trends in International Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism (2007), and of Hypermedia Seduction for Terrorist Recruiting.
Topics for HR Missions
- “The Arab Spring and its Implications for Israel and the Local and Global Arena” (Nov 2012)
