Juan Zarate

Juan C. Zarate is the global comanaging partner and chief strategy officer of K2 Intelligence Financial Integrity Network.

He also is the chairman and cofounder of the Center on Economic and Financial Power at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and a senior fellow at West Point's Combating Terrorism Center. He was a visiting lecturer in law at the Harvard Law School for eight years and is a published author, including his books Treasury’s War and Forging Democracy.

Mr. Zarate sits on the boards of various organizations, including Northwestern Mutual, Boston Dynamics, Cambridge Quantum Computing, and the Director's Advisory Board for the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC). Mr. Zarate has served for several years as an independent advisor to Coinbase. For over five years, Mr. Zarate sat on the board of the Vatican’s Financial Information Authority, and for seven years, was the US advisor on HSBC's Financial System Vulnerabilities Committee.

Mr. Zarate served as the deputy assistant to the president and deputy national security adviser for combating terrorism from 2005 to 2009, where he was responsible for developing and implementing the US counterterrorism strategy and policies related to transnational security threats. He was the first-ever assistant secretary of the Treasury for terrorist financing and financial crimes, where he led the innovative use of the Treasury's national security–related powers and the establishment of the Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence (TFI).

Mr. Zarate is a former federal terrorism prosecutor prior to 9/11, and a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College and a cum laude graduate of the Harvard Law School. He and his family live in Alexandria, Virginia.