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Thomas M. Sanderson

Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Transnational Threats Project

Associated Research Focus:

Europe
International Security
Terrorism & Transnational Threats

Associated Programs:

Director of National Intelligence Private Sector Engagement Initiative
Open Source, Trusted Information Network for Counterterrorism
Private Sector Advisory Group
Transnational Threats Project

Expertise:

Terrorism, intelligence, U.S. national security policy, global threats and trends

Contact:

202-775-3279
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As deputy director and senior fellow in the CSIS Transnational Threats Project, Thomas Sanderson focuses his work on terrorism, intelligence, and information sharing; U.S. national security policy; and global threats and trends. He comments regularly on these topics in the international media and serves as a terrorism course instructor and private consultant for the U.S. government and the private sector.

 

In the winter of 2005, he completed a fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin, conducting research on U.S.-German counterterrorism cooperation and threat perception. Prior to joining CSIS, Sanderson was a defense analyst with Science Applications International Corporation, where he conducted extensive studies of terrorist groups for the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, Office of Counterterrorism Analysis. He held the 2001 Henry L. Stimson Center Fellowship at Fudan University in Shanghai, China, and has four years of nongovernmental organization development experience, based in the United States and focused on Central Asia and Russia. Sanderson holds a B.A. from Wheaton College and an M.A.L.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

CSIS Publications by Thomas M. Sanderson


Force Multiplier for Intelligence 07/30/2007
Strategy Report Vol. 2 No. 12 09/18/2006
Five Years After 9/11 09/07/2006
Open Source Information 03/01/2006

Thomas M. Sanderson In the News


Thomas Sanderson, deputy director of the CSIS Trans-National Threats Program, had a commentary published with the Economist Debate Series, "Freedom and Its Digital Discontents." 02/07/2008
Thomas Sanderson, deputy director of the CSIS Transnational Threats Project, was quoted by the Associated Press, "Bin Laden Branded 'Virtually Impotent.'" 09/09/2007
A speech at CSIS by Thomas Schweich, Coordinator for Counternarcotics and Justice Reform in Afghanistan, was quoted by the Associated Press, "Afghanistan Poppy Cultivation Skyrockets." 08/05/2007
Thomas Sanderson, deputy director of the CSIS Transnational Threats Project, was quoted by the New York Times News Service, "Bush Advisers See Failed Strategy Against al Qaeda." 07/18/2007
Tom Sanderson, deputy director of the Transnational Threats Project, appeared on the CBS Evening News, "Urban Combat Spreads From Iraq." 06/22/2007
CSIS Senior Fellow Thomas Sanderson was interviewed by NPR's Morning Edition, "Yemen Holds Terrorist Fugitive on FBI List." 05/23/2007
CSIS Senior Fellow Thomas Sanderson was quoted by The New York Times, "Bush Says Al Qaeda Seeks Haven in Iraq." 05/23/2007
Thomas Sanderson, deputy director of CSIS's Transnational Threats Program, was quoted by the Houston Chronicle, "Bush Discloses Details of Secret CIA Prisons." 09/07/2006
Thomas Sanderson, deputy director of CSIS's Transnational Threats program, was quoted by The Baltimore Sun, "Threats Extend Beyond al-Qaida, Experts Say." 08/15/2006
CSIS Fellow Thomas Sanderson was interviewed by Washington's WTOP Radio, "How the Attack on L.A. was Prevented." 02/10/2006
Jihadists returning from Iraq pose a threat to Europe 04/29/2005
U.S. and German Counterterrorism Cooperation and the Iraq Insurgency: Old Friends with New Needs (in German) 04/01/2005

Testimony by Thomas M. Sanderson


9/11: Five Years Later – Gauging Islamist Terrorism 09/07/2006
 

 

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