Independent Consultant
Former Senior Correspondent/Geopolitics Analyst, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Areas of Interest
1) ideology of terrorist organizations
2) media strategies of terrorist organizations
3) Russia, Central Asia, and other regions of the former Soviet Union
Biography
Daniel Kimmage received his undergraduate education at the State University of New York at Binghamton and earned an M.A. in Russian and Islamic history from Cornell University. From 1997-2001, Kimmage lived in St. Petersburg, Russia, where he was the English-language editor of the quarterly journal Manuscripta Orientalia at the Institute of Oriental Studies. From 2003 to 2008, Kimmage was a regional analyst at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, where he focused on politics, business, and media issues in Central Asia and Russia. During his time at RFE/RL, Kimmage co-authored Iraqi Insurgent Media: The War of Images and Ideas (2007) and authored The Al-Qaeda Media Nexus (2008), which detailed the media branding and distribution strategies of Al-Qaeda and affiliated movements. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, Foreign Policy and Slate. He is currently an independent consultant based in Washington, DC.