Brynjar Lia

Who is Brynjar Lia?

Brynjar Lia is a Norwegian historian and associate professor at the University of Oslo and is also an adjunct research professor at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment where he headed FFI's research on international terrorism and global jihadism between 1999 and 2011. Lia is viewed as one of Norway's foremost experts on terrorism and is much cited in Norwegian and international media in connection to Al-Qaeda and international terrorism. Lia's last book is about Abu Musab al-Suri, which has been reviewed in publications like Newsweek, The Economist, London Review of Books, and The New York Review of Books.