Jeffrey D. Simon is an internationally recognized author, lecturer, and consultant on terrorism and political violence. He is president of Political Risk Assessment Company, Inc., and is a former RAND analyst who also taught at UCLA for twenty years. He is the author of several books on terrorism: America’s Forgotten Terrorists: The Rise and Fall of the Galleanists; The Alphabet Bomber: A Lone Wolf Terrorist Ahead of His Time; Lone Wolf Terrorism: Understanding the Growing Threat; and The Terrorist Trap: America’s Experience with Terrorism.