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 United States. Joe previously worked in the Parliament of Canada as press secretary and advisor to two opposition party leaders, and as a research intern at the Hudson Institute’s Center for Political-Military Analysis. His work has been featured in The New York Post, National Post, The Globe and Mail, The Hill Times, The Hill, The Times of India, and The Economic Times.