Eitan Danon is an Adjunct Senior Fellow at The Washington Institute. A strategic advisor at Chainalysis, he leads the company's work on the geopolitical implications of how state and nonstate actors leverage digital assets and blockchain technology. He has spent nearly two decades working on intelligence, financial diplomacy, and the national security dimensions of emerging technologies, with a focus on the Middle East. He served for more than a decade in the U.S. intelligence community in both analytic and operational roles focused on the Middle East and counterterrorism. He later served as a senior policy advisor at the Department of the Treasury, where he focused on illicit finance and macroeconomic issues across the Middle East.
His writing has appeared in Foreign Policy, The National Interest, and elsewhere. He is fluent in Arabic, Hebrew, French, and Spanish. He holds an M.A. with high honors in international security from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and a B.A. in history from the University of Pennsylvania.
