Yaniv Barzilai

YANIV BARZILAI is a U.S. diplomat and the author of 102 Days of War - How Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda & the Taliban Survived 2001. Yaniv graduated with highest honors and highest distinction from the University of North Carolina in 2011 with a B.A. in Peace, War, and Defense and a minor in Arabic. In 2013, Yaniv received an M.A. in International Relations with honors from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), where he concentrated in Strategic Studies and International Economics.

Yaniv has worked for the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan at the U.S. Department of State in Washington D.C. and the Special Representative for Somalia at the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya. He has also worked as a desk officer in the Office of Afghanistan Affairs at the State Department. He was awarded the Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship from the U.S. Department of State in 2009.

Yaniv loves to travel and is an avid UNC basketball fan. He has a passion for military history, diplomacy, national security, and technology. He currently lives in Washington, D.C. and can be contacted through his website, www.102daysofwar.com.