Dr. Matthew Levitt is the Fromer-Wexler Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy where he directs the Institute's Reinhard Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence. Previously, Levitt served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis at the U.S. Department of the Treasury and before that as an FBI counterterrorism analyst, including work on the Millennial and September 11th plots. He also served as a State Department counterterrorism advisor to Gen James L. Jones, the special envoy for Middle East regional security.

Levitt teaches at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and the Center for Jewish Civilization, as well as at Pepperdine University’s School of Public Policy.  He previously taught at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies.  He is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and sits on the advisory boards of several think tanks around the world.  Widely published, Levitt is the author of Hezbollah: The Global Footprint of Lebanon’s Party of God (Georgetown, 2013 & 2024) and Hamas: Politics, Charity and Terrorism in the Service of Jihad (Yale, 2006). Levitt hosts the podcast Breaking Hezbollah’s Golden Rule and created open access, interactive maps of Lebanese Hezbollah worldwide activities and Iranian external operations.