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.

QUOTES ABOUT RACHEL EHRENFELD

"Has done all serious students of this long war in which we are engaged a great service --- by following the money.
James Woolsey (about Funding Evil )

Her "brilliant book has a simple message: if we fail to understand them and how they work, they will win.
Richard Perle (about Funding Evil )

"... Must Reading for anyone interested in the frightening intricacies among drug traders, terrorists, bankers and government officials."
The Financial Times about Evil Money)

"Narco-terrorism, writes Rachel Ehrenfeld in this sobering report... [and] makes a powerful case. "Narco-Terrorism" serves powerfully to raise one's consciousness of their danger."
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, NYT (about Narco-Terrorism)

"Narcoterrorism" lays out an important strategic challenge for the U.S. in the 1990s. Ms. Ehrenfeld raises worrisome questions concerning national security implications.The information is indeed fascinating and historically extremely important."
The Wall Street Journal (about Narco-Terrorism)