Eric is the Director of the Prevention Project: Organizing Against Violent Extremism and a Non Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World. From January 2010 to March 2016 he was a senior official in the U.S. Department of State working on counterterrorism and countering violent extremism (CVE). He is the author of a number of reports, blogs, and articles on a range of international CT and CVE issues and co-author (with Alistair Millar) of “Allied Against Terrorism: What’s Needed to Strengthen Worldwide Commitment” (2006). He holds a B.A (History) from Haverford College, a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law, and an LL.M. (Hons.) in international law from Cambridge University.