As Director of National Security Policy for the House Financial Services Committee, Danielle Lindholm is engaged on issues such as AML/CFT regulation, counter threat finance, trafficking, sanctions, fraud, virtual assets, and the oversight of related agencies. She has over 20 years of experience working at this nexus of economics and national security, having served in a range of positions in the public and private sectors; legislative and executive branches; and business, government, and non-profit organizations. These have included roles as Country Manager for the Middle East and North Africa at the U.S. Trade and Development Agency; as a Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs; as an Advisor for International Economic Policy at the National Economic Council; as the Senior Policy Advisor to a U.S. Congressman; as a policy lead for a national-security think tank; and as the transnational threats strategist for the Intelligence & Security division of a large government contractor. She also worked as the Vice President of Government Affairs for a financial institution and managed her own consultancy, working with financial services-focused firms.

Danielle has a B.A. (Classics) from Tufts University and a J.D. from the University of Miami. She is a member of the District of Columbia and Florida Bars, and the American Bar Association (2015-2018 Co-Chair of the National Security Committee; 2012-2015 Co-Chair of the International Anti-Money Laundering Committee). She is both a Certified Financial Crime Specialist (CFCS) and a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS).

She has held leadership positions in several financial services and national security organizations, including service as a Co-Chair of the Financial Intelligence & Information Sharing Working Group (parent of the “FININT Dispatch”), a peer-to-peer network of over 1000 public- and private-sector financial intelligence experts. Danielle was a member of the 2014 DHS-sponsored Intelligence Community Analysts Public-Private Analytic Exchange Program’s “Non-Mainstream Money Exchanges” Team and the 2015-2016 program’s “ISIL Finances” Team.