HOT SPOT BRIEFING – Inconvenient Truth: The Global Jihadi Threat

On Tuesday, November 12, 2024, the Strauss-Clements Intelligence Studies Project hosted a public talk, “HOT SPOT BRIEFING – Inconvenient Truth: The Global Jihadi Threat,” with Ambassador Edmund Fitton-Brown, former UK ambassador to Yemen. Professor Paul Pope, ISP Senior Fellow and LBJ School Professor, moderated the talk. For event photographs, click HERE. See below to view the video.

BIOGRAPHY

Ambassador Edmund Fitton-Brown is currently Senior Advisor to the Counter Extremism Project. He also works part-time for the Foundation for Defence of Democracies and holds a number of advisory or fellowship positions with other institutes and think-tanks. He previously completed a full career with the UK foreign service, culminating as Ambassador to Yemen in 2015-2017. He then joined the United Nations and served for five years as Coordinator of the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team concerning the Islamic State, al-Qaeda and the Taliban. He is married to a Texan and is based in Austin. He has three adult children.