Peter Bergen

Award-winning journalist and producer Peter Bergen is one of the nation’s foremost authorities on foreign policy and national security. As CNN’s national security analyst, he was one of the few people to interview Osama bin Laden face-to-face. He is also the best-selling and award-winning author of seven books.

When Bergen reports on national security, Congress, the White House, and those who need to be “in-the-know” sit up and listen. He has traveled repeatedly to the Middle East and South Asia and testified before multiple congressional committees about national security issues. Heavily connected in the geopolitical world, Bergen has interviewed senior White House officials, Congressmen, Navy SEAL operators, senior military officers around the world, and more. Bergen offers audiences a straight-from-the-source, insider’s perspective our nation’s growing geopolitical challenges and how they have the potential to affect American business. He is exclusively represented by Leading Authorities speakers bureau.

Award-Winning Media. Bergen hosts the Audible podcast In the Room with Peter Bergen, which covers a wide range of national security issues and has won multiple awards. His most recent book, The Cost of Chaos: The Trump Administration and the World, reported on President Trump’s first term, which the Washington Post described as “the best single account of Trump’s foreign policy to date.” United States of Jihad: Investigating America’s Homegrown Terrorists, followed up his New York Times best-seller Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden – From 9/11 to Abbottabad. It was named one of the “Best Non-Fiction Books of 2012” by the Washington Post and made into an Emmy-winning HBO documentary.

In addition to Trump and His Generals, United States of Jihad, and Manhunt, Bergen is also the author of the New York Times best-seller The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict between America and Al-Qaeda (2011), which was called “one of the most important accounts on the subject to appear in years” by the New York Times. He also wrote the New York Times best-seller Holy War, Inc. and The Osama bin Laden I Know, both of which were named one of the best non-fiction books of the year by the Washington Post and turned into Emmy-nominated documentaries.

Bergen has written on national security issues for the New York Times, the Washington Post, TIME, and many other domestic and international publications. He writes a weekly column for CNN.com. He has also worked as a correspondent or producer for several documentaries that aired on National Geographic, Discovery, CNN and Showtime.

National Security Expertise. Bergen is Vice President of Global Studies & Fellows at New America in Washington, DC, and is a fellow at Fordham University’s Center on National Security. He is a professor of practice at Arizona State University’s School of Politics and Global Studies and has held teaching positions at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. He is also on the editorial board of Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, a leading scholarly journal in the field.

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