26 Facts About Harvey Kushner

Harvey Wolf Kushner was born on December 9,1941 and is an American scholar of global terrorism.

In more recent times, Harvey Kushner has emphasized the importance of cyber technologies and their impact on society and criminality.

Harvey Kushner has called for more cooperation between the public and private sectors.

Harvey Kushner has been a strong advocate for this within the media.

Harvey Kushner believes through money and education we can address the issues brought about by the cyber age.

Harvey Kushner currently serves as the Education Advisor for the Nassau County Municipal Police Chiefs Association, a post he has held since 1991.

In 1993, Harvey Kushner was retained by the Federal Aviation Administration to identify transnational and international terrorists that might target civil aviation.

District Attorney Denis Dillon turned to Harvey Kushner to determine the reason for this unwarranted fear of crime.

From 1995 - 1998, Harvey Kushner served as a special consultant on terrorism to Crime Stoppers International.

In 1989 and in conjunction with the International Association of Counter Terrorism and Security Professionals, Harvey Kushner authored the "Terrorism 1999 Anniversaries Calendar".

In 2000, Harvey Kushner was invited to serve as an individual expert and chair an international panel on victimization for the United Nations in Vienna, Austria, at their Ancillary Meeting at the United Nations 10th Congress on the Prevention of Crime.

Harvey Kushner evaluated equipment requests for countering terrorist events for the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency from 2005 to 2008.

In 2010, Harvey Kushner served as an expert for the Polish Parliamentary Committee tasked with investigating the April 10,2010, plane crash that killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski.

Also in 2008, at the behest of the Commissioner of Civil Rights Protection of the Republic of Poland, Janusz Kochanowski, Harvey Kushner represented the United States at the International Session of the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp, Oswiecim, Poland.

From 2002 to 2005, Harvey Kushner worked as the terrorist analyst for the US Probation Department of the Eastern District of New York.

Harvey Kushner's duties included providing intelligence analyses to the chief federal probation officer on all matters related to domestic, transnational, and international terrorism and developing protocols to monitor individuals with suspected terrorist ties while they were under the supervision of the probation department.

Immediately following the September 11,2001, attacks on the United States, Harvey Kushner gave expert testimony on terrorism and safety in New York City public spaces before the Committee of Public Safety of the Council of the New York City.

Harvey Kushner appeared as a terrorism expert before the Department of Homeland Security's Homeland Security Advisory Council's Future of Terrorism Task Force in 2006.

In 1997, Kushner served as plaintiffs' expert witness and wrote the expert's report for a successful multimillion-dollar civil litigation arising out of the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.

Harvey Kushner served as an expert from 2001 to 2003 in a civil litigation involving airport security procedures at New York's MacArthur Airport.

Harvey Kushner consulted on cases involving terrorism in Egypt and state sponsored terrorism involving the Islamic Republic of Iran.

From exposing terrorists on the FOX News Channel's The O'Reilly Factor to explaining the meaning of high alert on the Oprah Winfrey Show to discussing airport security on CNN's Larry King Live, Harvey Kushner has appeared on all the major cable and television networks.

Harvey Kushner has worked as a guest host and contributor for the FOX News Channel's millennium coverage in 2000 and MSNBC's New Year's Eve 2001 celebrations in Times Square, NY.

For many years, the Dr Harvey Kushner Show was a fixture on WGBB 1240 AM, Long Island's first radio station and one of the oldest in the country.

Harvey Kushner has served as an editor and member of the editorial boards for a number of journals.

Harvey Kushner currently serves on the international boards of the American Behavioral Scientist and the Journal of Applied Security Research.