Eitan Danon is a content marketing manager at Chainalysis, where he leads efforts to highlight the national security and geopolitical implications of how a range of actors are leveraging digital assets and blockchain technology. He has driven efforts to grow the company's global public sector business in strategic markets. Eitan has also overseen international teams of technical investigators focused on research, analysis, and advisory at the intersection of national security and the blockchain.
Before Chainalysis, Eitan was a senior policy advisor at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, where he focused on a range of high-priority illicit finance and macroeconomic issues across the Middle East, and represented Treasury before the U.S. interagency, financial institutions, foreign central banks, and the Federal Reserve. Prior to that, he worked for over a decade in the intelligence community in a range of analytic and operational assignments, focusing mostly on the Middle East and counterterrorism. In his various national security roles, he has built, navigated, and implemented a broad array of strategic initiatives with U.S. and allied stakeholders.
Eitan is fluent in Arabic, Hebrew, French, and Spanish, and conversational in several other languages. He has traveled extensively throughout the Middle East and Europe. He is a Security Fellow with the Truman National Security Project, and his writings on technology, national security, and economic statecraft have been published by The Atlantic Council and the Royal United Services Institute.
Eitan earned his MA with high honors in international security from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, and earned his BA in history from the University of Pennsylvania.