Daveed Gartenstein-Ross is the vice president of research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. He consults for a number of clients who need to be at the forefront of understanding terrorism and Islamic extremism, including the Manhattan Institute's Center for Policing Terrorism, the Christian Broadcasting Network, and law enforcement.

Gartenstein-Ross brings a unique perspective to his work. Born into a Jewish family, he converted to Islam in his early twenties and worked for the head U.S. office of the Al Haramain Islamic Foundation, an international Wahhabi charity that proved to be a major al-Qaeda financier. Prior to 9/11, Gartenstein-Ross left the Islamic faith for Christianity. By the time the FBI raided the offices where he had worked, he was ready to assist the investigation. This experience is detailed in Gartenstein-Ross's first book, My Year Inside Radical Islam.

Gartenstein-Ross has testified about religious radicalization in prisons before the U.S. Senate's Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and Georgia's state legislature. His writings on the global war on terror have appeared in Reader's Digest, Middle East Quarterly, The Wall Street Journal Europe, Commentary, The Weekly Standard, The Dallas Morning News, and The Washington Times. The Manhattan Institute has also published a monograph he wrote about the convergence of crime and terrorism. Gartenstein-Ross is a contributing expert at The Counterterrorism Blog, the first multi-expert blog dedicated solely to counterterrorism issues, and also writes for The Tank, National Review's military affairs blog. A complete list of his published works can be found at http://www.daveedgr.com/publications/.

Gartenstein-Ross frequently appears on TV and talk radio to discuss terrorism. Recent appearances include al-Jazeera, Hannity & Colmes (Fox News Channel), Glenn Beck on Headline News (CNN), The Live Desk (Fox News Channel), Your World with Neil Cavuto (Fox News Channel), The 700 Club (CBN), PBS, ABC News Now, NPR, The Laura Ingraham Show, The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly, The Dennis Prager Show, and The Michael Medved Show.

A highly regarded public speaker, Gartenstein-Ross frequently addresses college and university audiences, law enforcement, civic and political groups, and religious groups. Venues where he has spoken include Harvard Law School, Kenyon College, Southern Connecticut State University, and Tyndale University College & Seminary (Toronto, Canada). He has also appeared on academic and policy panels at the LAPD's Joint Regional Intelligence Conference, the Cato Institute, and the Conservative Political Action Conference.

Previous positions that Gartenstein-Ross has held include senior terrorism analyst at the Investigative Project on Terrorism, commercial litigator at Boies, Schiller & Flexner, and law clerk on the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He earned a J.D. from the New York University School of Law, where he was a member of the Law Review, and a B.A. from Wake Forest University, where he won the 1997 National Debate Tournament.

Gartenstein-Ross has traveled widely, including visiting Iraq as an embedded journalist and touring the detention facilities at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. He can conduct research in several languages, including Arabic, Italian, and Spanish.