Avi Jorisch is the founder of the Red Cell Intelligence Group, a consulting and training firm that specializes in national security issues relating to terrorism, illicit finance and radical Islam. In addition, he is a Senior Fellow for Counter-terrorism at the American Foreign Policy Council and ... more
Avi Jorisch is the founder of the Red Cell Intelligence Group, a consulting and training firm that specializes in national security issues relating to terrorism, illicit finance and radical Islam. In addition, he is a Senior Fellow for Counter-terrorism at the American Foreign Policy Council and Fellow at the Air Force Special Operations University. He also serves on the Advisory Board of United Against a Nuclear Iran (UANI).
Previously, Mr. Jorisch served as a Policy Advisor at the Treasury Department's office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, a liaison to the Department of Homeland Security and an Arab media and terrorism consultant for the Department of Defense. Mr. Jorisch also served as the Executive Director of the Coalition Against Terrorist Media, an organization comprised of Muslim, Christian, Jewish and secular organizations concerned about the role terrorist organizations play in funding various media outlets. The Coalition's advocacy campaign resulted in the removal of al-Manar programming from several major satellite providers, among other important policy changes.
Mr. Jorisch is the author of Iran's Dirty Banking: How the Islamic Republic Skirts International Financial Sanctions (2010). He is also the author of On the Trail of Terror Finance: What Law Enforcement and Intelligence Officials Need to Know (2010) and Tainted Money: Are We Losing the War on Money Laundering and Terrorism Finance? (2009) Both are primers on how illicit actors raise and move their money and intended to shed light on the scope of the problem and potential solutions. Mr. Jorisch has also published a Washington Institute monograph entitled, Beacon of Hatred: Inside Hizballah's al-Manar Television (2004). This monograph is based on interviews in Lebanon and Qatar with Hizballah and other Arab media experts, a CD with al-Manar propaganda, and a history of the station and the organization. As the Institute's Soref fellow from 2001 to 2003, he specialized in Arab and Islamic politics.
Mr. Jorisch holds a bachelor's degree in history from Binghamton University and a master's degree in Islamic history from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 2000 and 2001, he studied Arabic and Islamic Philosophy at the American University in Cairo and al-Azhar University, the preeminent institution of Sunni Islamic learning.
Mr. Jorisch has traveled extensively in the Middle East and is a frequent media commentator on threat finance and radical Islam, publishing in influential media outlets including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes and Al-Arabiya.net.
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Integrity Merchant Solutions/ Simplexity | |
June 2012 - Present (10 years 4 months) | |
Integrity Merchant Solutions (IMS) is an exclusive sales arm of First Data, the largest credit card processor in the country. As a result of our large customer base we are almost always able to provide businesses with extremely competitive rates for credit card fees - better than they are currently being charged. IMS services over 4500 businesses around the country. |
Member of the Advisory Board | |
United Against a Nuclear Iran | |
October 2011 - Present (11 years) | |
United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) is a not-for-profit, non-partisan, advocacy group that seeks to prevent Iran from fulfilling its ambition to obtain nuclear weapons. UANI’s private sanctions campaigns and state and Federal legislative initiatives focus on ending the economic and financial support of the Iranian regime by corporations, firms, entities and individuals at a time when the international community is attempting to compel Iran to abandon its illegal nuclear weapons program, support f |
Senior Fellow for Counterterrorism | |
American Foreign Policy Council | |
October 2011 - Present (11 years) | |
Conduct research and analysis on counter-terrorism related issues, including Militant Islam, Terrorism, terrorist finance, American companies' unwitting support of terrorist organizations, Al-Qaeda and Hizballah. The American Foreign Policy Council (AFPC) plays an essential role in the U.S. foreign policy debate. Founded in 1982, AFPC is dedicated to bringing information to those who make or influence the foreign policy of the United States and to assisting world leaders with building democracie |
Adjunct Fellow | |
RAND Corporation | |
October 2010 - Present (12 years 1 month) |
Co-Founder & CEO | |
KYC2 Solutions | |
August 2010 - Present (12 years 3 months) | |
KYC2 Solutions, that offers a powerful system to monitor the global network of banking relationships. KYC2 provides its customers with an ability to know on an ongoing basis if their institution is directly or indirectly doing business with blacklisted financial institutions in jurisdictions that include North Korea, Iran, Syria and Sudan. |
Founder | |
RedCell Intelligence Group | |
January 2008 - Present (14 years 10 months) | |
RedCell Intelligence Group is an international security consulting firm. RedCell provides expert staffing and intelligence gathering services on an international scale and offers clients significant experience in identifying, locating and recovering human and financial assets on a global level. RedCell personnel hail from the ranks of the intelligence and law enforcement community, finance and merchant services sector, think-tanks and the military. |
Fellow | |
Air Force Special Operations University | |
November 2007 - Present (15 years) |
Al-Azhar University | |
2000 / 2001 | |
The American University in Cairo | |
2000 / 2001 | |
Arabic |
The Hebrew University | |
MA | |
1997 / 2000 | |
Islamic History/Arabic |
State University of New York at Binghamton | |
BA | |
1993 / 1997 | |
History |
The Journal of International Security Affairs (Spring/Summer 2014) | |
Avi Jorisch | |
The Journal of International Security Affairs |
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