On Tuesday, November 12, 2024, the Strauss-Clements Intelligence Studies Project will host a public talk, “HOT SPOT BRIEFING - Inconvenient Truth: The Global Jihadi Threat," with Ambassador Edmund Fitton-Brown, former UK ambassador to Yemen. The two decades that followed 9/11 saw a concentrated, US-led international investment in counterterrorism (CT) that suppressed the threat from al-Qaeda and the Islamic State. The risk is that we consider that campaign won, and disinvest from CT in favor of other priorities, at a time when events from Afghanistan to Ukraine to Gaza, Lebanon and Iran increase the likelihood and seriousness of a resurgent global Jihadi threat. Professor Paul Pope, ISP Senior Fellow and LBJ School Professor, will moderate the talk.

Registration is RECOMMENDED. Registrants will receive any updates regarding the event.
Lunch will be provided.
Garage parking is available for a fee at the Manor Garage and the San Jacinto Garage. Parking will not be validated.

BIOGRAPHY

Ambassador Edmund Fitton-Brown is currently Senior Advisor to the Counter Extremism Project. He also works part-time for the Foundation for Defence of Democracies and holds a number of advisory or fellowship positions with other institutes and think-tanks. He previously completed a full career with the UK foreign service, culminating as Ambassador to Yemen in 2015-2017. He then joined the United Nations and served for five years as Coordinator of the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team concerning the Islamic State, al-Qaeda and the Taliban. He is married to a Texan and is based in Austin. He has three adult children.