Background

Peter Lampert Bergen was born on December 12, 1962, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, to Donald Thomas and Sarah Elizabeth (Lampert) Bergen.

Education

Bergen studied at Ampleforth College in North Yorkshire. He received a Bachelor of Arts from New College, Oxford University in 1984.

Career

Right after the graduation, Peter Bergen started his journalistic career. Bergen is New America’s director of the International Security and Future of War programs. He has worked at CNN in a variety of roles since 1990 as an analyst, correspondent, and producer. He writes a weekly column for CNN.com and is a member of the Aspen Homeland Security Group and a fellow at Fordham University’s Center on National Security. Bergen is on the editorial board of Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, a leading scholarly journal in the field. He has testified on Capitol Hill seventeen times about national security issues.

Bergen has held teaching positions at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. For many years he was a contributing editor both at Foreign Policy and The New Republic and also a fellow at New York University's Center on Law and Security.

Bergen has hosted, produced, or executive produced multiple documentaries for HBO, CNN, National Geographic, and Discovery. Together with his wife Tresha Mabile he produced a film for National Geographic Television, "American War Generals," which aired in 2014. They also produced "Legion of Brothers" for CNN Films which premiered at Sundance in 2017 and was released theatrically.

Achievements

• Peter Bergen is known as one of the most successful and extraordinary journalists of the American journalism sector. Accounting his professional success, Peter Bergen spent his major time with CNN and has held much prestigious news. During his time on CNN, he has successfully covered a number of breaking news including 9/11 attacks. He produced the first television interview with Osama bin Laden in 1997. The interview, which aired on CNN, marked the first time that bin Laden declared war against the United States to a Western audience.
  
  Bergen is also a remarkable author. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages. Documentaries based on his books have been nominated for Emmys. In 1994, he won the Overseas Press Club Edward R. Murrow award for best foreign affairs documentary for the CNN program "Kingdom of Cocaine" which was also nominated for an Emmy.
  
  Bergen's book Longest War won the $30,000 Gold Prize for best book on the Middle East of 2011 from the Washington Institute. Newsweek and the Guardian named Longest War as one of the key books about terrorism of the past decade.
  
  His work Manhunt: The Ten Year Search for Bin Laden, from 9/11 to Abbottabad won the Overseas Press Club award for the best book on international affairs. HBO based the film "Manhunt" on the book, which won the 2013 Emmy for best documentary. Bergen was awarded the Stephen Ambrose History Award in 2014.
  
  

Works

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  • The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict between America and Al-Qaeda

    (In The Longest War Peter Bergen offers a comprehensive hi...)

    2011
  • Trump and His Generals: The Cost of Chaos

    (From one of America's preeminent national security journa...)

    2019
  • Bombers, Bank Accounts, and Bleedout: Al-Qa'da's Road In and Out of Iraq

    (The Combating Terrorism Center at West Point (CTC) launch...)

    2008
  • Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden

    (On September 11, 2001, the world changed forever as more ...)

    2001
  • The Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of al Qaeda's Leader

    (The Osama bin Laden I Know is an unprecedented oral histo...)

    2006
  • Talibanistan: Negotiating the Borders Between Terror, Politics, and Religion

    (In Talibanistan, an unparalleled group of experts offer a...)

    2012
  • United States of Jihad: Who Are America's Homegrown Terrorists, and How Do We Stop Them?

    (United States of Jihad tells the entwined stories of the ...)

    2017
  • Drone Wars: Transforming Conflict, Law, and Policy

    (Drones are the iconic military technology of many of toda...)

    2014
  • Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden from 9/11 to Abbottabad

    (The gripping account of the decade-long hunt for the worl...)

    2012

Membership

Peter Bergen is the chairman of the board of the Global Special Operations Foundation, which is a non-profit advocating for the interests of special operations forces and is also on the board of the James W. Foley Legacy Foundation, which advocates for Americans who are being held hostage and for journalists in conflict zones. He is also a member of the Homeland Security Experts Group.

Personality

Peter is very famous for his intellectual personality and utmost character. Peter's thoughts, works, and creative imagination can be taken as a sensational source of a motivational factor for many people who want to carve their path in a similar field.

Connections

Bergen is married to Tresha Mabile, the documentary director. They have two children.

Father:

Donald Thomas Bergen

Mother:

Sarah Elizabeth (Lampert) Bergen

Spouse:

Tresha Mabile

References

• Contemporary Authors New Revision Series: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Current Writers in Fiction, General Non-Fiction, Poetry, Journalism, Drama, Motion Pictures, Television, and Other Fields In response to the escalating need for up-to-date information on writers, Contemporary Authors New Revision Series brings researchers the most recent data on the worlds most-popular authors.
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