Colin P. Clarke is the Director of Research at The Soufan Group where his research focuses on domestic and transnational terrorism, international security, and geopolitics. He is also a senior research fellow at The Soufan Center.

Previously, Dr. Clarke was a professor at Carnegie Mellon University where he taught courses on terrorism, insurgency, and conflict to undergraduate and graduate students in the Institute for Politics & Strategy. He was also a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation, where he spent a decade researching terrorism, insurgency, and criminal networks. At RAND, Dr. Clarke led studies on ISIS financing, the future of terrorism and transnational crime, and lessons learned from all insurgencies since the end of World War II. 

Dr. Clarke has published several books on terrorism, including his most recent, After the Caliphate: The Islamic State and the Future Terrorist Diaspora.

Clarke is also an Associate Fellow at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT) – The Hague, a non-resident Senior Fellow in the Program on National Security at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI), an Associate Fellow at the Global Network on Extremism and Technology (GNET), and a member of the “Network of Experts” at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime.

Clarke serves as part of the research advisory council at the RESOLVE Network and is a member of the advisory board at the International Counter-Terrorism Review (ICTR). He serves on the editorial board of three of the leading scholarly journals in the field of terrorism studies, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Terrorism and Political Violence, and Perspectives on Terrorism.

Clarke has testified before Congress on numerous occasions as an expert witness on a range of terrorism-related issues and appears frequently in the media to discuss national security-related matters.

He received his Ph.D. in international security policy from the University of Pittsburgh and is an affiliated scholar at the Matthew B. Ridgway Center for International Security Studies at Pitt's Graduate School of Public and International Affairs.

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