Joe Adam George is the research lead for Islamist threats in Canada at the Middle East Forum. Based in Ottawa, he is also a foreign policy and national security analyst with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, covering Islamist extremism in the West, terror financing, and geopolitical developments in the Middle East and South Asia and their impact on Canada and the U.S. Joe previously worked in the Parliament of Canada as press secretary and advisor to the leader of the opposition party, and as a research intern at the Hudson Institute’s Center for Political-Military Analysis. His work has been featured in the National Post, The Globe and Mail, The Hill Times, The Hill, Real Clear World, The Times of India, and The Economic Times.