Jim Ludes

Jim Ludes is the Executive Director of the American Security Project. He was a Legislative Assistant for defense and foreign policy for U.S. Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.) from 2002-2006 and Editor-in-Chief of National Security Studies Quarterly from 1995-2002. Jim has also co-edited two books, Attacking Terrorism and Twenty-First Century Weapons Proliferation.

Bernard I. Finel

Bernard Finel is a senior fellow at the American Security Project where he has built a reputation as a top counter-terrorism analyst. Bernard has been quoted widely by U.S. and Canadian media on terrorism-related issues and he blogs regularly at BernardFinel.com. He was Associate Professor of Military Strategy and Operations at the U.S. National War College from 2004-2006. Prior to that, Bernard was on the faculty of the Security Studies Program (SSP) at Georgetown University and served as Executive Director of the SSP and the Center for Peace and Security Studies from 2002-2004 and Associate Director of the SSP from 1997-2001. He is co-editor and co-author of Power and Conflict in the Age of Transparency and Ultimate Security: Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction.