Peter Lampert Bergen (born December 12, 1962) is an American journalist, documentary producer, and author, best known for his work on national security and counterterrorism. Bergen produced the first televised interview with Osama bin Laden in 1997, in which bin Laden declared war against the United States to a Western audience. He has written or edited ten books—three of which were New York Times bestsellers, and four were named among the best non-fiction books of the year by the Washington Post, and they have been translated into 25 languages—and he has served as a producer or correspondent on multiple Emmy-nominated documentaries. Bergen is CNN's national security analyst, a vice president at the non-partisan think tank New America, and a professor of practice at Arizona State University.
