“Tamer Elnoury is not my given name. It’s one of several aliases I have used throughout my career to infiltrate terror cells across the globe. My job was to decimate al-Qaeda and ISIS from the inside out. To put my arm around some of the worst people on the planet, convince them that I was their brother in arms, then ruin all their plans of death and destruction…

…Without them ever seeing me coming.”

Tamer Elnoury is a former undercover operative for the FBI and New York Times best-selling author of American Radical: Inside the World of an Undercover Muslim FBI Agent.

An Arabic-speaking Muslim American born in Egypt and raised in the States, Tamer was trained by the U.S. government to become a weapon against terrorism and spent nearly two decades in the shadows, infiltrating and thwarting terror cells in the United States and around the world, operating in the highest-stakes counterterrorism situations imaginable. During Operation Dire Wolf, Tamer and his team thwarted an international terror plot, saving hundreds of lives and leading to the arrest, conviction, and lifetime imprisonment of two terrorist masterminds.

Tamer’s experience made him a master in the art of building and maintaining interpersonal trust—even with some of the most dangerous people on the planet. His lecture, “Making Radical Connections,” shares this message and his experiences to corporate, community and academic audiences about the meaning and consequential importance of human connection to achieve your desired outcome.