Professor Boaz Ganor is a leading global counter-terrorism specialist and Dean of the Lauder School of Government at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel.  He has published widely including a book on counter-terrorism called “The Counter-Terrorism Puzzle – a Guide for Decision Makers” which has been translated into Japanese. He has also held positions at Stanford University and U.C. Berkeley and regularly briefs various global organizations tasked with confronting terrorism including the Australian Parliament, the US Congress, the FBI, and the US Army.