Disinformation is spreading as wildly as COVID-19: US Professor Blazakis

KATHMANDU: Jason M. Blazakis is a Senior Research Fellow and a terrorism expert who devises strategies to prevent terrorists from gaining access to money and publicity. He currently works as Professor of Practice and Director of the Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counter-terrorism (CTEC) at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterrey, United States.

Jason previously held positions in the Department of State’s Political-Military Affairs, International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, Intelligence and Research Bureaus, and at U.S. Embassy Kabul. He has also served as the Director of the Counter-terrorism Terrorism Finance and Designations Office, Bureau of Counter-terrorism, U.S. Department of State.