21 Facts About Bruce Hoffman

Bruce R Hoffman was born on 1954 and is an American political analyst.

Bruce Hoffman specializes in the study of terrorism, counter-terrorism, insurgency, and counter-insurgency.

Bruce Hoffman received his graduate education at the Oxford University, earning his doctorate in 1986.

Bruce Hoffman matriculated at Connecticut College, receiving a Bachelor of Arts with honors in government and history in 1976.

In 1981, Bruce Hoffman joined the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California.

Bruce Hoffman left RAND in 1994 when he was appointed senior lecturer in international relations at the University of St Andrews.

Bruce Hoffman left St Andrews at the end of 1998 to return to RAND as director of RAND's Washington Office, vice president for external affairs at RAND, and acting director of the Center for Middle East Public Policy.

Bruce Hoffman held the RAND Corporate Chair in Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency.

Bruce Hoffman was scholar-in-residence for counterterrorism at the Central Intelligence Agency between 2004 and 2006; an adviser on counterterrorism to the Office of National Security Affairs, Coalition Provisional Authority, Baghdad, Iraq in 2004, and from 2004 to 2005 an adviser on counterinsurgency to the Strategy, Plans, and Analysis Office at Multi-National Forces-Iraq Headquarters, Baghdad.

Bruce Hoffman was an adviser to the Iraq Study Group.

Bruce Hoffman was a visiting fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, in 2009.

Bruce Hoffman has been a public policy fellow and a distinguished scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC, and is currently a Global Wilson Fellow.

Bruce Hoffman was a visiting professor at S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, where he was the S Rajaratnam Professor of Strategic Studies for 2009 and the William F Podlich Distinguished Fellow and visiting professor of government at Claremont McKenna College in 2016.

Since 2006, Bruce Hoffman has taught at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel.

Bruce Hoffman's publications include "Holy Terror": The Implications of Terrorism Motivated by a Religious Imperative.

Bruce Hoffman is the editor-in-chief of the scholarly journal, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism which Google Scholar has ranked as the number one most cited journal for both 2021 and 2022 in the "Military Studies" category; and, the series editor of Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare, published by Columbia University Press.

Bruce Hoffman is president and CEO of The Bruce Hoffman Group, an international counterterrorism executive education, training, and consultancy.

Bruce Hoffman was named one of "Washington DC's 500 Most Influential People" by Washingtonian magazine in both its May 2022 and May 2023 special supplements, again in the "National Security And Defense" category.

In 1998, Bruce Hoffman became the first recipient of the Santiago Grisolia Chair and first winner of the Prize for Excellence in the Study of Violence award by Queen Sofia Centre for the Study of Violence, Valencia, Spain.

In 2016, Bruce Hoffman was awarded the Harriet Buescher Lawrence '34 Prize to Connecticut College Alumni for Leadership or Inspiring Others for Good Through Direct Service by the Connecticut College Alumni Association, New London, CT.

Bruce Hoffman played goalkeeper in 1979 and 1980 for the Israeli National Field Hockey Team.