Quintan Wiktorowicz

Quintan is is the co-founder and managing partner of Affinis Labs, an award-winning social innovation firm. He previously served in two senior positions at the White House, where he planned, directed, and coordinated national security engagement policies that leveraged diplomacy, communications, development assistance, and community outreach. During his tenure, he established the first director positions for national security innovation and championed the use of open innovation, human-centered design, and principles of entrepreneurship to catalyze new approaches to national security. Prior to joining the White House, Quintan developed ground breaking counter-radicalization initiatives for the U.S. Government. Before his government service, he was one of Amer­ica’s leading academics on the Muslim World, publishing three peer-reviewed books, an award winning audio book, and 33 arti­cles and book chapters. Quintan received his Ph.D. in political science from American University, studied Islam in Cairo with an al-Azhar shaykh, and conducted fieldwork on violent extremism in Jordan and the UK, where he witnessed radicalization first hand. He was a Fulbright Scholar; and a professor at Rhodes College, Dartmouth College, and Shippensburg University.