Matthew Levitt

Dr. Matthew Levitt is the Fromer-Wexler fellow and director of the Eli and Jeanette Reinhard program on counterterrorism and intelligence at the Washington Institute for Near East policy. Matthew teaches at Georgetown University and literally wrote the books on Hamas and Hezbollah. He started his career in counterterrorism at the FBI, where he led the analytical team for flight UA175, the second flight to strike the Twin Towers on 9/11. He later served as a counterterrorism advisor at the Department of State and as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis at the Treasury Department. Matthew recently testified about Hamas financing and what to do about it before both the House Financial Services Committee and the Senate Banking Committee on back to back days.