Jessica Stern

Jessica Stern is the author of a number of books and articles on terrorism and weapons of destruction, including most recently Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill. She lectures on terrorism at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. She is currently teaching a course on religion and global politics with Samuel Huntington and David Little, jointly offered by Harvard's Divinity School, School of Public Policy, and Faculty of Arts and Sciences. She served on President Clinton's national-security council Staff, and has worked as an analyst at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. She was the Superterrorism Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and has also held several post-doctoral fellowships, including at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.