Jeffrey D. Simon is an internationally renowned author, lecturer, and consultant on terrorism and political violence. He is president of Political Risk Assessment Company, Inc., and a visiting lecturer in the Department of Political Science at UCLA. A former RAND analyst, Simon has conducted research and analysis on terrorism for more than thirty years, lecturing on terrorism at universities, with law enforcement and military personnel, emergency services, and the medical community in the United States and overseas.
Simon is the author of three critically acclaimed books, The Alphabet Bomber, Lone Wolf Terrorism, and The Terrorist Trap. His latest book, America's Forgotten Terrorists: The Rise and Fall of the Galleanists will be published in May 2022. His writings on terrorism, political violence, and political risk have appeared the Journal of the American Medical Association, Foreign Policy, Jane's Intelligence Review, and the New York Times, he is on the editorial board of the Journal of Terroris
