Jonathan Panikoff Keynote Speaker

Jonathan Panikoff is senior director of the Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative at the Atlantic Council, where he leads the organization’s work on Middle East politics and security, and also oversees the South Asia portfolio. He is concurrently a senior fellow in the Atlantic Council’s Geoeconomics Center, focusing on the intersection of foreign investment and national security issues.

A former career US intelligence officer, Panikoff served from 2015 to 2020 as deputy national intelligence officer for the Near East at the National Intelligence Council, overseeing the US Intelligence Community’s analysis on the Levant and the Gulf. He later led analytic support for the 2020 US presidential transition and, in his final Intelligence Community role, served as director of the Investment Security Group, overseeing efforts related to foreign investment reviews, including on matters involving the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States and Team Telecom.

Panikoff’s analysis has been published in leading outlets including Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and Politico, among others. He is a frequent on-air commentator and has appeared on CNN, CNBC, MSNow, Bloomberg, BBC, PBS, NPR, and is regularly cited by major print media outlets including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Financial Times, Reuters, and the Associated Press.

He holds a JD from Syracuse University College of Law, an MA in international relations from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University, and a BA from George Washington University. He is admitted to the bar in New York and Connecticut.