Daveed Gartenstein-Ross is the Vice President of Research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Director of its Center for Terrorism Research. His noted insight into Islamist terrorism comes from a combination of impressive academic credentials and unique personal experience.

Gartenstein-Ross’s primary research interest is the study of homegrown terrorism and radicalization. He co-authored two reports in 2009 examining these phenomena, Homegrown Terrorists in the U.S. and U.K. and Terrorism in the West 2008. The former is an empirical examination of the radicalization process in 117 homegrown jihadi terrorists that provides a more sophisticated schema than previous studies for understanding the impact of religious ideology.