Dr. Jonathan Schanzer serves as the executive director at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), a position he has held since 2024. In this role, he oversees the work of the organization's experts and scholars. He also holds a position on the Leadership Team at FDD's Center on Economic and Financial Power (CEFP) since 2019.
Prior to joining FDD in 2010, Schanzer worked as a terrorism finance analyst at the U.S.