Ryan Mauro is a national security analyst and investigative researcher. He is President of The Mauro Institute, Senior Counterextremism Fellow for Capital Research Center, and host of The Counteroffensive.

For more than 22 years, Mauro has researched extremist movements, foreign threats and the ideologies that drive them. His work combines investigative research, public education, intelligence analysis, media commentary and humanitarian action. He has provided intelligence to law enforcement regarding extremist threats and has identified and reported thousands of potential terrorist and extremist actors based on verifiable evidence.

Mauro has made more than 2,000 media appearances across outlets spanning the political spectrum, including frequent appearances on Fox News Channel and Arab television. He has authored more than 1,500 published articles and is an official Newsmax TV contributor.

He served as an adjunct professor at Regent University for more than a decade, teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East and homeland security. He also taught courses on terrorism and political science as an adjunct professor at Liberty University.

Previously, Mauro served as a national security analyst and Director of Intelligence for Clarion Project. There, he helped transform the organization into a think tank and intelligence-gathering operation, conceived and led the Clarion Intelligence Network, and oversaw a team of analysts and confidential sources. The team produced more than 1,000 evidence reports for law enforcement concerning suspects from Islamist, far-left and far-right backgrounds.

In 2021, Mauro founded the volunteer-driven Afghan Liberty Project in response to the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Taliban takeover. The project assisted approximately 1,500 at-risk Afghans, including those who fought alongside U.S. forces, Christians and human-rights activists, through evacuations, humanitarian aid, emergency rescue operations and a network of safe houses.

Mauro holds a Master’s degree in Political Science, a Bachelor’s degree in Intelligence Studies and a Graduate Certificate in Middle East Studies from American Military University. He also earned an Islamic Studies Certificate from Islamic Online University in order to study the ideology directly.

He began working as a geopolitical and international-security analyst in 2002 at the age of 16. His work led to representation by the William Morris Agency until 2009. Mauro was selected to speak at the International Intelligence Summit in 2005 and 2006 alongside former CIA directors, senior military leaders and subject-matter experts.

He has also been a guest instructor for law-enforcement training conferences, the Homeland Security Professionals Conference, the Defense Department, the Middle East Forum, Coptic Solidarity and Brookdale Community College’s Center for World War Two Studies and Conflict Resolution. His work has been referenced on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives and in testimony before the Senate Homeland Security Committee.

Separately, Mauro is the creator of the documentary Finding the Mountain of Moses: The Real Mount Sinai in Saudi Arabia, which has received nearly 10 million views in 42 languages and aired on Newsmax TV. His research trips have taken him to Israel, the disputed Palestinian-majority areas, Iraq, Kurdistan, Jordan, Egypt and Turkey.