Marc Sageman
Principal
Sageman Consulting LLC

Marc Sageman is an independent researcher on terrorism and the founder of Sageman Consulting, LLC. After graduating from Harvard University, he obtained an M.D. and a Ph.D. in sociology from New York University. Subsequent to a tour as a flight surgeon in the U.S. Navy, he joined the CIA in 1984. He spent a year on the Afghan Task Force and then went to Islamabad from 1987 to 1989, where he ran the U.S. unilateral programs with the Afghan Mujahedeen, and New Delhi from 1989 to 1991.

As an expert on al Qaeda and related terrorist organizations, he has consulted with various branches of the U.S. government, including the National Security Council, the Department of Defense, the Combatant Commanders, the National Laboratories, the Department of Homeland Security, various agencies in the U.S. Intelligence Community, and various law enforcement agencies. He has lectured at many universities here and abroad, including Harvard, Pennsylvania, MIT, Chicago, Michigan, California-Berkeley, and Johns Hopkins. He has also consulted with foreign governments (France, Australia, Spain, Canada, Germany, and the United Kingdom).