Steven Emerson is an internationally recognized expert on terrorism and national security, a correspondent, and an author who also serves as the Executive Director of The Investigative Project, the nation's largest archival data and intelligence resource on Islamic and Middle Eastern terrorist groups. He recently authored the national best seller, "American Jihad: The Terrorists Living Among Us" (Free Press). Since September 11, 2001, Mr. Emerson has appeared frequently on network television and has been quoted or cited hundreds of times in the nation's top newspapers. Mr. Emerson and his institute have also given numerous briefings to Congress, the White House, the Justice Department and other federal agencies.

Mr. Emerson started The Investigative Project in late 1995, following the broadcast of his documentary film, "Jihad in America," on Public Television. The film exposed video of clandestine operations of militant Islamic terrorist groups on American soil. For the film, Mr. Emerson received numerous awards including the George Polk Award for best television documentary, one of the most prestigious awards in journalism. He also received the top prize from the Investigative Reporters and Editors Organization (IRE) for best investigative report in both print and television for the documentary. The award from the IRE was the fourth such award he had received from that group. The documentary, which was excerpted on 60 Minutes, is now standard viewing for federal law enforcement and intelligence organizations.

Over the past three years, Mr. Emerson has testified more than two dozen times before Congress, and he has briefed the National Security Council at the White House as well.

Mr. Emerson has authored or co-authored five books including: American Jihad: The Terrorists Living Among Us (Free Press, 2002).

"Steve Emerson deserves the highest pri ze - a Pulitzer or whatever it may be - for investigative journalism." U.S. Representative Christopher Smith (R-NJ)

Richard Clarke. Former head of NSC Counterterrorism, in a feature article on Emerson in Brown Alumni Magazine (November-December 2002), said, "I think of Steve as the Paul Revere of terrorism." Mr. Clarke credits Emerson with repeatedly warning of Al Qaeda sleeper cells in the United States. He adds that he would attend Emerson's speeches whenever possible because "we'd always learn things we weren't hearing from the FBI or CIA, things which almost always proved to be true."

Steven Emerson, founder of the Investigative Project, was the first American journalist to expose Militant Islam in his multiple-award winning 1994 American PBS documentary 'Jihad in America', which led to fatwas being issued against him and his life being threatened by Muslim terrorists. Click here to read his testimony before US Congress on 11 March 2003.