Mathieu Guidère

Who is Mathieu Guidère?

Mathieu Guidere is a full professor at the University of Toulouse II – Le Mirail. A scholar of cognitive sciences as it applies to Islamism, radicalization and terrorism, he has held other professorships at such prestigious institutions including the University of Geneva, Switzerland and the Ecole Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr, France. Dr. Guidere is co-founder of the Radicalization Watch Project based in Washington, D.C and has been awarded a Fulbright Prize in 2006 to advance his research on the psychology of terrorism. He has been also editor-in-chief of the Defense Concepts Journal.

Dr. Guidere has published books on the Al-Qaeda organization and its activities in North Africa and the Middle East such as The New Terrorists and The Al-Qaeda Recruitment Manual which has been translated into Spanish. He has also published in English for the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point: "The Tribal Allegiance System within AQIM."

Since 2011, Dr. Guidere has been a Senior Fellow at The Brain Sciences Foundation. He was also a lead researcher for MIT Mind Machine Project.