Career
Prior to his current position, Singer was founding Director of the Project on U.S. Policy Towards the Islamic World at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings. He has also worked for the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, the Balkans Task Force in the U.S. Department of Defense, and the International Peace Academy. Singer received his Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University and an A.B. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.
At age 29, Singer became the youngest scholar named a Senior Fellow in the ninety-year history of Brookings. He is considered one of the world's leading experts on changes in 21st century warfare and has written for many of the world's major media and journals, including the Boston Globe, L.A. Times, New York Times, Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, Current History, Survival, International Security, Parameters, Weltpolitik, and the World Policy Journal. He has been quoted in every major U.S. newspaper and news magazine and delivered talks at venues ranging from the U.S. Congress and Pentagon to more than 50 universities around the world. In 2009, Singer was named to Top 100 Global Thinkers list by Foreign Policy Magazine. He also serves on the advisory group for Joint Forces Command, helping the US Military visualize and plan for the future.
Singer served as coordinator of the Defense Policy Task Force for Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign.
Singer has provided commentary on military affairs for many of the major TV and radio outlet, including ABC-Nightline, Al Jazeera, BBC, CBS-60 Minutes, CNN, Fox, NPR, The Daily Show, and the NBC Today Show. He is also a founder and organizer of the U.S.-Islamic World Forum, a global conference that brings together leaders from across the US and the Muslim world. Singer has also worked with a variety of entertainment world projects, including the movies Traitor, Battleship, and Whistleblower, the TV series Striekback and Curiosity, as well as the 24: Redemption movie/DVD, broadcast in 2008. In 2012, Singer served as consultant on Call of Duty: Black Ops II.
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