Our TeamThe ACD matches the appropriate experts with each project at hand. Our international team of experts is available to work on all aspects related to terror financing, radical Islam, terrorism & transnational crime; narcoterrorism, corruption, etc. Our team conducts studies and investigations and provides expertise and training in the above mentioned areas, as well as in good governance, rule of law, and ethics in business. PLEASE NOTE: Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld is not a signatory of the 911Truth.org. She has asked several times to have her named removed from the list, but the organization failed to comply. Director
Dr. Ehrenfeld is the Director of the New York-based American Center for Democracy and the Center for the Study of Corruption & the Rule of Law. She is the author of FUNDING EVIL: HOW TERRORISM IS FINANCED - and HOW to STOP IT (Bonus Books, 2003, 2005); EVIL MONEY (HarperCollins, 1992, SPI, 1994) and NARCOTERRORISM (Basic Books, 1990, 1992). Dr. Ehrenfeld is an authority on the shadowy movement of funds through international banking and governments to fund terrorism. She has a unique understanding of the challenges of international terrorism to democracy and freedom, and how money laundering and political corruption facilitates terror financing and economic terrorism.An American citizen fluent in several languages, Ehrenfeld has testified before Congressional Committees, as well as the European Parliament, and provided evidence to the British Parliament, and consulted government agencies such as the Department of Defense and Homeland Security. She is also a Member of the Board of Directors of the Committee on the Present Danger (http://www.fightingterror.org/) along with former Secretary of State George Schulz and former CIA Director James Woolsey. She has been a visiting scholar at the Columbia University Institute of War and Peace Studies, a research scholar at the New York University School of Law, and a fellow at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and Jesus College at Cambridge University. She has a PhD in Criminology from the Hebrew University School of Law. Her articles have appeared in numerous publications such as The New York Times, Los Angeles Times , The Jerusalem Post , and The Wall Street Journal and she is a frequent guest on The O'Reilly Factor, and CNN, NBC, CNBC, FoxNews, and other TV programs. Fellows
Jean-Charles Brisard was appointed Knight of the National Order of Merit on the (French) presidential reserve, on December 2008. He is an international consultant and expert on terrorism and terrorism financing. He authored the first and most exhaustive study ever written on the financial network of the Bin Laden organization, "The economic environment of Osama Ben Laden". His report was written for the French intelligence community and published by the French National Assembly in 2001. He testified on his work before the US Congress Joint Inquiry into the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, before the US Senate Banking Committee and reported on terrorism financing for the President of the UN Security Council. He served as an expert or witness in prosecutions of terrorism financing and money laundering cases in France, Switzerland, the UK and the United States. He provides training to the French authorities on terrorism and terrorism financing.Since June 2002, he is serving as lead investigator for lawyers representing over 6,500 family members of the 9/11 victims in the course of civil actions brought before the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against the terrorists, terrorist states and the sponsors of terrorism, including individuals, banks, corporations and Islamic charities. Jean-Charles Brisard has served as special adviser to the Vice President of Vivendi Universal for corporate and business intelligence after serving as director of business intelligence and international legal counsel for international corporations. He held governmental positions in France as counsel to the former Chief Antiterrorism Prosecutor and adviser to the French Minister of Interior and French Prime Minister. He also served as advisor to a US Senator. Jean-Charles Brisard authored Forbidden Truth: U.S.-taliban Secret Oil Diplomacy And The Failed Hunt For Bin Laden in 2001 and Zarqawi, The New Face of Al-Qaeda in 2005. His analysis regularly appears in international TV and newspapers, including NBC, CNN, Fox News, the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Le Monde and Le Figaro. Jean-Charles Brisard earns a Phd in Public International Law of the Paris University of Law, an Md in International and European Law, a diploma in Comparative Law from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques of Paris, and he studied Diplomacy at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. 
Col. Jonathan Dahoah Halevi, IDF (Ret.) is a Fellow at the American Center for Democracy, is the director of
research in the Orient Research Group Ltd. and a Board member of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs headed by Dr.
Dore Gold. Mr. Halevi consults on Middle East and Arab affairs to the Wall Street Journal and is a special consultant
to the Linde vs. Arab Bank lawsuit. • 1998 - 2002 he was Head of the Palestinian Research Branch in the IDF Intelligence Unit. • 2002 - 2003 Head of the Information Branch in the IDF Spokesperson Unit. • 2003 - 2004 Senior Advisor for policy planning in the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Mr. Halevi has written many articles for both Hebrew and English publications including "Al-Qaeda's Intellectual Legacy: New Radical Islamic Thinking Justifying the Genocide of Infidels". 
A Fellow of the American Center for Democracy, Leslie Lebl is also Principal of Lebl Associates. A writer, lecturer and consultant on political, security and military matters, she is a former Foreign Service Officer with particular expertise in European political, defense and counterterrorism issues, radical Islam in Europe, Balkan peacekeeping, and Russian politics and economy. Her publications have appeared in the Policy Analysis series of the Cato Institute, Policy Review, Orbis, City Journal, The Weekly Standard, The Hartford Courant, EuroFuture and Atlantic Perspective. A monograph, Advancing U.S. Interests with the European Union, was published by the Atlantic Council of the United States. A graduate of Swarthmore College (B.A. in history, 1972), Ms. Lebl received an M.A. in foreign affairs from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in 1979. Marc Schulman is a specialist in Islamist financing and investments. He prepared the initial research for the trillion dollar lawsuit filed against the Saudi royal family on behalf of the families of 9/11 victims in 2002. Prior to that time, Mr. Schulman was a Wall Street securities analyst responsible for coverage of the computer and software industries. After leaving Wall Street, he was an independent consultant to the senior executives of technology companies. Mr. Schulman holds a S.B. in Political Science from M.I.T. and an S.M. from M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Mangement. Ilan Weinglass is a business intelligence analyst in the private sector. From 1999 – 2001, Mr. Weinglass was head of research for the Israeli Trade Ministry's Investment Promotion Center. Following his service in the IDF, he served as an analyst at the American Center for Democracy, researching terrorism financing for several projects. He has served as a terrorism analyst at the Investigative Project, and served as Legislative Fellow for National Security Affairs to U.S. Senator Norm Coleman (R-Minnesota). Mr. Weinglass received a B.A. in economics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and an M.A. in international relations and international economics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He speaks Hebrew and Arabic. 
John Wood, a Senior Fellow at the ACD, is President and CEO of The Playfair Group. He graduated with honors from the University of Bristol, England, with a degree in law. Mr. Wood has 17 years of experience in the intellectual property and intangible assets arena. Previously, he was Director of E-commerce for KPMG. Mr. Wood has testified on intellectual property issues before the U.S. House of Representative’s Judiciary sub-committee on IP and the Courts, as well as the World Intellectual Property Organization. He has made presentations to the American Intellectual Property Lawyers Association and the International Trademark Association. In a public advocacy role, Mr. Wood has represented AOL, BT, Microsoft, NSI, and CSSA on intellectual property-related issues.
As an expert on the Internet, he has provided consulting services to AFN, AT&T, BBC Worldwide Publishing, BT, Cable and Wireless, Glaxo-Wellcome, General Motors, Walt Disney, and Williams Communications. Mr. Wood was featured in and contributed to articles in Advertising Age, Business Week, CNET, Computer Weekly, Financial Times, Interactive Age, Legal Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal, and has made numerous appearances on BBC Radio 4 and MSNBC (Europe). He has been a member of the E-commerce and Intellectual Property Committees of the United States Chamber of International Business, as well as the International Chamber of Commerce. |
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