Farah Pandith

Farah Pandith is a world-leading expert and pioneer on countering violent extremism (CVE). She served as a political appointee in the George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama administrations at the National Security Council, U.S. Agency for International Development and U.S. Department of State. She was the first-ever Special Representative to Muslim Communities (2009-2014). Originally published as How We Win: How Cutting-Edge Entrepreneurs, Political Visionaries, Enlightened Business Leaders and Social Media Mavens Can Defeat the Extremist Threat, her book is now released on the twenty-fifth anniversary year of the 9/11 attacks featuring a foreword by New York Times–bestselling author Garrett M. Graff as How We Win: Countering Violent Extremism in an Unstable World. Named the Muhammad Ali Global Peace Laureate, she is the creator of the unprecedented Ali Index on Compassion. She is a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and teaches at Georgetown University. She served on the Homeland Security Advisory Council where she chaired the CVE task force and was a senior fellow at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.