Gregory Johnsen

Gregory Johnsen is a doctoral candidate in Near Eastern Studies at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University and a terrorism analyst for the Jamestown Foundation. He is a widely quoted expert on Yemen, in publications including Foreign Policy, The American Interest, The Independent, The Boston Globe, and The National, and is the co-founder of Waq al-Waq: Islam and Insurgency in Yemen Blog.

He has held a Fulbright Scholarship and fellowships from the American Institute for Yemeni Studies and was awarded the David R. Schweisberg Memorial Scholarship from the Overseas Press Club in 2006.

In 2009, he was a member of the U.S. Agency for International Development conflict assessment team for Yemen. In 2001 and 2002 he was a Peace Corps volunteer in Jordan.

He is concerned about negative effects from U.S. military operations in Yemen. "You can't just kill a few individuals and the al-Qaeda problem will go away."