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ILANA FREEDMAN – EDITOR
Ilana Freedman has been a specialist in intelligence analysis for over 25 years. Her powerful approach to the field provides actionable counter-terrorism intelligence in real time for law enforcement and for corporate clients with assets and personnel in high-risk locations.
As CEO of Gerard Group International, Inc., she has developed a global network of over 400 specialists and field assets who provide an ongoing resource of essential real-time intelligence and domain expertise. The network enables Gerard Group to develop the inter-relationships between developing global trends in terrorism and their impact on America’s national security.
Freedman is best known for her unique and highly accurate approach to intelligence analysis and forecasting, in which she connects the dots between massive volumes of diverse data, and synthesizes them into well-documented and actionable intelligence. She has forecast some of the most significant impacting trends in the global arena, including the globalization of terrorism, the spread and corruption of the ‘Arab Spring’, the growing Iranian threat, and the current crisis in the world economy.
Freedman has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Business Week, and the Financial Times, among others. She has authored several hundred columns on terrorism, civil defense, and security. Her columns have appeared in the New York Post, Inc. Magazine, the Metrowest Daily News, the Lowell Sun, and other publications.
She is a frequent guest on radio stations around the country, and is currently writing a book on the impact of the terrorist threat on the Western world.
In July 2011, she became Editor of GerardDirect.com which went live in September.
Ilana Freedman is represented by Gerard Group International. For interviews and speaking engagements, please contact speaking@gerardgroup.com