Jennifer Daskal

Jen Daskal is a Partner at Venable LLP. She is a national security legal and policy expert, with years of experience managing crisis, mitigating risk, and working at the intersection of technology, policy and law. From October 2023 to January 2025, Daskal was the Deputy Homeland Security Advisor at the White House. She also previously served as the Principal Deputy Legal Advisor at the National Security Council, Acting General Counsel at the Department of Homeland Security, and counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for National Security at the Department of Justice. She has written extensively on issues of data security and data privacy, testified multiple times before Congress, and published numerous journal articles and op-eds.