Professor Bruce Hoffman has been studying terrorism and insurgency for thirty years and is widely acknowledged as the world's foremost authority on these subjects. He is the author of the acclaimed book, Inside Terrorism (Columbia University Press, 2006) which the Washington Post described as 'brilliant' and the 'best one volume introduction to the phenomenon' (16 July 2006). Foreign language editions have now been published in ten countries.

Professor Hoffman is currently a tenured professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Washington, DC. He previously held the Corporate Chair in Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency at the RAND Corporation. In 1994, the Director of Central Intelligence awarded Professor Hoffman the United States Intelligence Community Seal Medallion, the highest level of commendation given to a non-government employee, which recognizes sustained superior performance of high value that distinctly benefits the interests and national security of the United States.

Professor Hoffman was adviser on counterterrorism to the Office of National Security Affairs, Coalition Provisional Authority, Baghdad, Iraq during the spring of 2004 and from 2004-2005 was an adviser on counterinsurgency to the Strategy, Plans, and Analysis Office at Multi-National Forces-Iraq Headquarters, Baghdad. He was also an adviser to the Iraq Study Group (Baker-Hamilton Commission).

Professor Hoffman is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Terrorism and Counterterrorism Program, Human Rights Watch, New York, NY; a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C.; a Senior Fellow at the Combating Terrorism Center, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, NY; a Senior Fellow at the National Security Studies Center at Haifa University, Israel; and, a Visiting Professor at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He was the founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, where he was also Reader in International Relations and Chairman of the Department of International Relations. Professor Hoffman is Editor-in-Chief of Studies in Conflict and Terrorism and a member of the advisory board of Terrorism and Political Violence. He holds degrees in government, history, and international relations and received his doctorate from Oxford University.

Topics addressed in speaking engagements include:
• Suicide Terrorism
• al Qaeda
• Insurgency in Irag
• History of Insurgency
• History of Terrorism
• Terrorism/Insurgency and the Media
• Terrorism/Insurgency and the Internet
• Psychology of Terrorism
• Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction.