Author Description

Brian Michael Jenkins serves as the Senior Advisor to the President of the RAND Corporation. He is also the Director of the National Transportation Security Center at the Mineta Transportation Institute. From 1989 to 1998, Mr. Jenkins was the Deputy Chairman of Kroll Associates, an international investigative and consulting firm. Responsible for the firm's crisis management practice, he directed the responses to kidnapping and extortion cases worldwide. Before that, he was Chairman of RAND's Political Science Department where, from 1972 to 1989, he also directed RAND's research on political violence. Mr. Jenkins has a B.A. in Fine Arts and a Masters Degree in History, both from UCLA. He studied at the University of Guanajuato in Mexico and in the Department of Humanities at the University of San Carlos in Guatemala where he was a Fulbright Fellow and recipient of a second fellowship from the Organization of American States. Since the early 1970s, Jenkins has served as a consultant in a number of negotiations to bring about the release of hostages kidnapped for ransom or political reasons. Mr. Jenkins is the author of International Terrorism: A New Mode of Conflict (1974), the editor and co-author of Terrorism and Personal Protection, (1984) a textbook on kidnapping. He is the co-editor and co-author of Aviation Terrorism and Security (1998), and a co-author of The Fall of South Vietnam (1976). He is the author of Unconquerable Nation: Knowing Our Enemy, Strengthening Ourselves (2006), and Will Terrorists Go Nuclear? (2008). He is also the author of numerous articles, book chapters, and published research reports on conflict and crime. His latest book is The Long Shadow of 9/11: America's Response to Terrorism (2011).