Thomas M. Sanderson

As deputy director and senior fellow in the CSIS Transnational Threats Project, Thomas Sanderson focuses his work on terrorism, intelligence, and information sharing; U.S. national security policy; and global threats and trends. He comments regularly on these topics in the international media and serves as a terrorism course instructor and private consultant for the U.S. government and the private sector.

In the winter of 2005, he completed a fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin, conducting research on U.S.-German counterterrorism cooperation and threat perception. Prior to joining CSIS, Sanderson was a defense analyst with Science Applications International Corporation, where he conducted extensive studies of terrorist groups for the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, Office of Counterterrorism Analysis. He held the 2001 Henry L. Stimson Center Fellowship at Fudan University in Shanghai, China, and has four years of nongovernmental organization development experience, based in the United States and focused on Central Asia and Russia. Sanderson holds a B.A. from Wheaton College and an M.A.L.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.