Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
| Daveed Gartenstein-Ross | |
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| Born | 1976 (age 40–41) Ashland, Oregon, United States |
| Residence | Washington D.C. |
| Other names | n/a |
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| Website | www.daveedgr.com/ |
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Daveed Gartenstein-Ross is an American counter-terrorism scholar and analyst. In 2014 he became the CEO of Valens Global, a private company that consults on counter-terrorism, Al-Qaeda, ISIS, ISIL, other insurgent groups and violent nonstate actors. In addition to his role at Valens Global, Mr. Gartenstein-Ross is the Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a Washington-based think tank. He is also an expert at . He frequently consults on counter-terrorism for various government agencies as well as the private sector. In 2011, Gartenstein-Ross wrote Bin Laden's Legacy: Why We're Still Losing the War on Terror published by John Wiley & Sons.
Born to non-practicing Jewish parents who followed a medley of religious teachings, he grew up in Ashland, Oregon. Gartenstein-Ross received his B.A. from Wake Forest University, where he was a Nancy S. Reynolds Scholar and won the 1997 national championship in intercollegiate policy debate. He went on to earn a J.D. from the New York University School of Law, where he was a member of the Law Review. Gartenstein-Ross was selected for the Claremont Institute's Lincoln Fellowship in 2007.
After law school Gartenstein-Ross worked as a law clerk on the United States Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, and was subsequently employed in a New York City law firm. Following his work as a litigator, Gartenstein-Ross served at Steven Emerson's Investigative Project on Terrorism and started his own counter-terrorism consulting business. In 2007 he began working as vice president at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. In 2010, he became a Senior Fellow there.
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