Eitan Danon

Eitan Danon is an Adjunct Senior Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, where his research focuses on Middle East geoeconomics and the national security dimensions of emerging technologies. He spent more than a decade in the U.S. intelligence community covering the Middle East and counterterrorism, and subsequently served as a senior policy advisor at the Treasury Department focused on illicit finance and macroeconomic issues across the region. He is now a strategic advisor at Chainalysis, where he leads research on how state and non-state actors leverage digital assets and blockchain technology to finance operations and evade sanctions. He is co-founder of Riyalpolitik, a newsletter on the political economy of the Middle East. All statements of fact, opinion, or analysis expressed are his and do not reflect the official positions or views of the U.S. Government.