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Ed Turzanski
Edward A. Turzanski is a Senior Fellow with the Center for Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism, and Homeland Security at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (Philadelphia, PA). He is also a member of the U.S. Attorney’s Anti-Terror Advisory Committee (ATAC) for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and the U.S. Coast Guard/DHS Philadelphia Port Security Committee. During the Reagan Administration, Mr. Turzanski served with the U.S. Intelligence community throughout the Middle East, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe. A life-member of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers, Mr. Turzanski has served as an on-air contributor for Fox News Channel, BBC World Service, CNN Headline News, Canadian Broadcast Corporation Radio Division, and Comcast CN8. He regularly does on-air commentary and analysis concerning national security, intelligence and political matters on over four dozen national and regional radio and television outlets throughout the United States and Canada. Locally, Mr. Turzanski regularly appears as a panelist on ABC affiliate WPVI TV6’s “Inside Story.” Mr. Turzanski has taught philosophy and political science at La Salle and Villanova Universities for the past 23 years, and he lectures on intelligence-related topics for the American Institute for History Education. The Polish Police Association named Mr. Turzanski as its “Man of the Year” in 2004, and in September of 2008, he was named the representative of the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce and the city’s business community to the “Mayor’s Task Force on Ethics and Campaign Finance Reform.” Mr. Turzanski was instrumental in assisting Polish American Social Services and the Polish American Congress, Eastern Pennsylvania District, when martial law was imposed in Poland in 1981. He remains a proud member of Polonia. He and his wife, Stella, live in Northeast Philadelphia with their three children. |
