Byman is Senior Advisor to the U.S. Department of State as part of the International Security Advisory Board, a senior fellow with the Transnational Threats Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and the Foreign Policy Editor for Lawfare.

[4] Byman played key roles in the post 9/11 intelligence committees and in many distinguished think tanks.

[5] He was also the research director of the Center for Middle East Public Policy at the RAND Corporation.

Byman holds a BA from Amherst College and a PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

He also authored the book, Al Qaeda, the Islamic State, and the Global Jihadist Movement: What Everyone Needs to Know, published by Oxford University Press in 2015.