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Biography

Sebestyén L.V. Gorka

Sebestyén L. V. Gorka is a member of the Strategic Advisors Group.

Sebestyén L. V. Gorka was born to Hungarian parents living in forced exile in the United Kingdom.  After the fall of Communism, Sebestyén moved to Hungary, where he became an internationally recognized expert on defense reform and international terrorism.  Since then he has been a Kokkalis Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard; a consultant to the RAND Corporation in Washington and Adjunct Professor for Terrorism and Security Studies at the George C. Marshall Center, Germany.  In 2003 Sebestyén and his wife founded the Institute for Transitional Democracy and International Security (ITDIS).

Sebestyén Gorka has been a Fellow of the Terrorism Research Center in Virginia and a Founding Member of the US Council for Emerging National Security Affairs. He was an ambassadorial briefer for the US Department of State and a featured speaker for The Economist, London, the US Army War College and the Joint Special Operations University, Florida.

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

More recently, Dr. Gorka has been assigned to the National Defense University where he is conducting courses on terrorism.

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