Avi Jorisch

Avi Jorisch is the founder and President of the Red Cell Intelligence Group, a consulting and staffing firm that specializes in national security issues relating to terrorism, threat finance and radical Islam. In addition, he is an Adjunct Scholar at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and a Fellow at the Special Operations University. Previously, Mr. Jorisch served as a Policy Advisor at the Treasury Department’s office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence and a terrorism consultant for the Department of Defense.

Mr. Jorisch is the author of several books, including Iran’s Dirty Banking: How the Islamic Republic Skirts International Financial Sanctions, which offered a sweeping view of the international banks that provided Iran financial services in 2010; and Beacon of Hatred: Inside Hizballah’s al-Manar Television, based on interviews in Lebanon with members of Hizballah.

Mr. Jorisch holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Binghamton University and a master’s degree in Islamic history from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has also studied Arabic and Islamic Philosophy at the American University in Cairo and al-Azhar University, the preeminent institution of Sunni Islamic learning.

Mr. Jorisch has traveled extensively in the Middle East and is a frequent media commentator on threat finance and radical Islam, publishing in influential media outlets including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Al-Arabiya.net.