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Steven Simon is a scholar on the Middle East, counter-terrorism, and international security.CFR Biography He received a BA from Columbia University in classics and Near Eastern languages, an MTS from the Harvard Divinity School, and an MPA from Princeton University. He also studied at Brown and Oxford Universities.

During the Clinton administration, he served as the Director for Global Issues and Senior Director for Transnational Threats on the National Security Council from 1999 - 2003. He was formerly the Deputy Director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, a senior fellow at RAND, and is currently the Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.

He is widely known for his two books on radical Islamist terrorism: The Age of Sacred Terror (2002), which examined the rise of al Qaeda, and The Next Attack (2005), which assessed home-grown terrorism in Europe. Both works were co-authored with Daniel Benjamin.

In Steven Simon's recent article in Foreign Affairs magazine (Spring 2008), "The Price of the Surge," he warned of the dangers of the Bush administration's approach to stabilizing Iraq.