Gavin de Becker

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Gavin de Becker (born October 26, 1954 ) is an American author and security specialist .

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De Becker works primarily for governments, large corporations and public figures. He is the founder and chairman of Gavin de Becker and Associates. Together with the United States Marshals Service , he has developed the MOSAIC threat assessment systems , a software that is supposed to identify potentially dangerous students in advance before they can become violent.

De Becker has featured his beliefs on violence prevention in multiple appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show , 60 Minutes , Larry King Live , 20/20 , The Jordan Harbinger Show and Sam Harris' podcast Waking Up . He has also been featured in Time and Newsweek , The Wall Street Journal , The New York Times, and other media outlets. De Becker's first book, The Gift of Fear, was a bestseller in the United States at number 1 on the New York Times bestseller list.

His clients as security chief included the Beckhams , Jeff Bezos , Madonna , Cher , John Travolta , Michael J. Fox , Robert Redford , Geena Davis , Brooke Shields , Barbra Steisand , Meghan, Duchess of Sussex and Harry, Duke of Sussex .

Publications

  • The Gift of Fear and Other Survival Signals that Protect Us From Violence . Little, Brown and Company, Boston 1997, ISBN 978-0-316-23502-0 .
  • Protecting the Gift. Keeping Children and Teenagers Safe (and Parents Sane) . Dial Press, New York 1999, ISBN 978-0-385-33309-2 .
  • Fear Less. Real Truth about Risk, Safety, and Security in a Time of Terrorism . Boston: Little, Brown and Company, Boston 2002, ISBN 978-0-316-08596-0 .
  • Just 2 seconds. Using Time and Space to Defeat Assassins . Gavin de Becker Center for the Study and Reduction of Violence, 2008, ISBN 978-0-615-21447-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Patricia Leigh Brown, "His Credo: Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid. [Biography]". New York Times, July 14, 1997. p. 10
  2. ↑ UltraViolencePredictor 1.0 at www.wired.com
  3. ↑ Article on www.spiegel.de (restricted access)
  4. ↑ What it will take to guard Harry and Meghan , The Times, June 3, 2020
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SURNAME de Becker, Gavin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author and security specialist
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1954