Daniel Pipes, president of the Middle East Forum, has been called “an authoritative commentator on the Middle East” by the Wall Street Journal and "perhaps the most prominent U.S. scholar on radical Islam" by the Washington Post. Al-Ba‘th, a Syrian regime newspaper, described him as “among the most influential academics in international politics.”

The author of sixteen books and a prize-winning columnist for the Washington Times, his website, DanielPipes.org, has had 75 million page visits. Mr. Pipes has taught at  Harvard, Chicago, and Pepperdine universities and served in five U.S. government administrations, including two presidentially-appointed positions.