Joe Adam George

Joe Adam George is a researcher specialising in legal Islamism, terrorism and the related national security issues in Canada and the United States. Based in Ottawa, he leads research on Islamist threats in Canada at the Middle East Forum and is a foreign policy and national security analyst at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, two North American public policy think tanks; he is also a researcher at the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP).

His areas of expertise include legal Islamism and entryism, terrorism and national security, terrorist financing and money laundering via the charitable sector, the radicalisation of young people, and the establishment of Muslim Brotherhood in North America. His work focuses on the ‘stealth jihad’ of Muslim Brotherhood and related Islamist networks in Canada, with particular attention to their implications for the continent’s security. His research and analysis have been featured in major media outlets and specialist publications, including the National Post, CBC News, The Globe and Mail, CTV News, The Hill, the New York Post and Focus on Western Islamism.

Previously, he served in the Canadian Parliament as press secretary and advisor to the leadership of the Official Opposition, advising the Honourable Pierre Poilievre and, prior to that, the Honourable Candice Bergen, where he led cultural media relations and stakeholder engagement. He was also a research fellow at the Center for Political-Military Analysis at the Hudson Institute in Washington, where he studied Russian and Chinese strategic threats, including developments in space and underwater warfare.