Sebestyén L. V. Gorka Director, Institute for Transitional Democracy and International Security (itdis)

Sebestyén has published in excess of 70 articles and monographs internationally on the topics of terrorism, Central European military reform, Russia and the NIS, biological terrorism and organized crime in publications such as the NATO Review, the Harvard International Review, the World Policy Journal, the Washington Times, NATURE, Security Dialogue and Defense News. He is also a lead analytic contributor to the publications of the JANES Information Group of the UK (inc. JANES Terrorism and Security Monitor, Islamic Affairs Analyst) and has also written for Pinkertons Global Intelligence Report. He is a regular defense and security issues, appearing on the public and commercial media of the US, UK, Japan, Canada, Ireland, Germany Greece, Hong Kong and Austria including the BBC’s Newsnight and World Service, ABC News and, the Financial Times and REUTERS. Gorka also lectures on security issues at three universities including the University of San Francisco’s Budapest program as well as at institutions such as the FBI’s International Law Enforcement Academy, Budapest, the NATO School, Oberammergau and the National Defense University in Washington. Since 2004 he has served four times as Adjunct Professor for Terrorism and Security Studies at the George C. Marshall Center in Germany.

Sebestyén Gorka a fourfold holder of State Secretary and Deputy State Secretary awards for work executed in the field of defense diplomacy, is alumnus of the Salzburg Seminar and the US Atlantic Council.