32 Facts About Peter Bergen

Peter Lampert Bergen was born on December 12,1962 and is an American journalist, documentary producer, and author, best known for his work on national security and counterterrorism.

Peter Bergen is CNN's national security analyst, a vice president at the non-partisan think tank New America, and a professor of practice at Arizona State University.

Peter Lampert Bergen was born in Minneapolis and grew up in London, the son of Donald Thomas Bergen and Sarah Elizabeth Bergen.

Peter Bergen was raised in his family's Roman Catholic faith.

Peter Bergen attended Ampleforth College in North Yorkshire before receiving an open scholarship to New College, Oxford, in 1981, where he graduated with a degree in modern history.

Peter Bergen is vice president for global studies and fellows at New America, a non-partisan think tank in Washington, DC and CNN's national security analyst.

Peter Bergen is a professor of practice at the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University, where he is the co-director of the Future Security Initiative, and the director of the Intelligence Community Center for Academic Excellence.

Peter Bergen is a research fellow at Fordham University's Center on National Security.

Peter Bergen hosted the Audible podcast In the Room with Peter Bergen from early 2023 to early 2025.

Peter Bergen has held teaching positions at Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University and the Paul H Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.

Peter Bergen is a member of the Homeland Security Experts Group.

Peter Bergen is the chairman of the board of the Global Special Operations Foundation, a non-profit advocating for the interests of special operations forces.

Peter Bergen is on the Advisory Council of the James W Foley Legacy Foundation, which advocates for Americans held hostage or "wrongfully detained" by states.

Peter Bergen was the founding editor of the Coronavirus Daily Brief which operated during the pandemic.

Peter Bergen was the recipient of the 2000 Leonard Silk Journalism Fellowship and was the Pew Journalist in Residence at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University in 2001 while writing Holy War, Inc.

Peter Bergen was awarded the Stephen Ambrose History Award in 2014.

Peter Bergen co-edited, with Katherine Tiedemann, Talibanistan: Negotiating the Borders Between Terror, Politics, and Religion, a collection of essays about the Taliban published by Oxford University Press in 2013.

Peter Bergen co-edited, with Daniel Rothenberg, Drone Wars: Transforming Conflict, Law, and Policy, published by Cambridge University Press in 2014.

In 2016, Peter Bergen published United States of Jihad: Investigating America's Homegrown Terrorists.

Peter Bergen addressed how the administration's stance on NATO was shaped by Trump's longstanding views about burden-sharing among allies and a broader desire to reduce American military commitments overseas.

Peter Bergen published The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden in 2021.

Peter Bergen has worked as a correspondent and producer for the National Geographic Channel, Discovery Channel, HBO, Showtime, and CNN Films.

Peter Bergen co-produced, with Tresha Mabile, the National Geographic Channel documentary, American War Generals which featured interviews with several high-ranking US Army officers, including Colin Powell, Stanley McChrystal, and David Petraeus.

Four of Peter Bergen's books have been made into documentaries for CNN, HBO and National Geographic.

In 1997, as a producer for CNN, Peter Bergen produced bin Laden's first television interview, in which he declared war against the United States for the first time to a Western audience.

Peter Bergen co-produced the CNN documentary, Terror Nation, which traced the links between Afghanistan and the bombers who attacked the World Trade Center for the first time in 1993.

From 1998 to 1999, Peter Bergen worked as a correspondent-producer for CNN.

Peter Bergen produced documentaries on the Clinton administration, the Cali Cartel, the 1994 Republican takeover of Congress, and advances in AIDS research.

Peter Bergen was program editor for CNN Impact, a news magazine co-production of CNN and TIME, from 1997 to 1998.

Peter Bergen has reported on al-Qaeda, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, ISIS and counterterrorism and homeland security for a variety of American newspapers and magazines including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Foreign Affairs, The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, Time, The Nation, The National Interest, Mother Jones, Newsweek, and Vanity Fair.

Peter Bergen has written for newspapers and magazines around the world such as The Guardian, The Times, The Daily Telegraph, International Herald Tribune, Prospect, El Mundo, La Repubblica, The National, Die Welt, and Der Spiegel.

In 2015, Seymour Hersh criticized Peter Bergen for "view[ing] himself as the trustee of all things Bin Laden" after Peter Bergen wrote a piece for CNN.