Mr. Ariel Joshua Leinwand is serving as the first ever Regional Export Control Officer stationed at the American Institute of Taiwan in Taipei, Taiwan. Mr. Leinwand recently completed a detail as Senior Policy Advisor to the Office of Export Enforcement (OEE) Headquarters focusing on export enforcement policy related to Russia and Belarus with an emphasis on the aviation and financial sectors. Prior to his Headquarters detail from March 2021 to April 2023 Mr. Leinwand was the Special Agent in Charge (SAC) of the Miami Field Office with responsibility for OEE’s investigations and Special Agents located in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI), and Puerto Rico. Mr. Leinwand previously held the position of Resident Agent in Charge (RAC) of the Atlanta Resident Office (ARO) from May 2016 to March 2021. Prior to becoming the RAC, in 2014, Mr. Leinwand was an OEE Special Agent in Atlanta, Georgia. Mr. Leinwand previously served as a Special Agent with Homeland Security Investigation’s Counter-Proliferation Investigations in Atlanta, Georgia from 2009 to 2014. Mr. Leinwand served as a Special Agent with OEE’s Dallas Field Office from 2006 to 2009, and also worked in Export Enforcement’s Office of Enforcement Analysis (OEA) in Washington, DC for several years to include a detail supporting the Assistant Secretary for Export Enforcement before becoming a Special Agent. Mr. Leinwand was selected as the Export Enforcement Supervisor/Manager of the Year in 2018 and has received one Department of Commerce Individual Gold Medal Award for Personal and Professional Excellence and two Bureau of Industry and Security Bronze Medal Awards for Personal and Professional Excellence. Mr. Leinwand also received the Homeland Security Investigations Director’s Award for Excellence in Counter-Proliferation Investigations. Mr. Leinwand holds a Law Degree and Master’s degree with concentrations in International Affairs and Information Systems from Indiana University. Mr. Leinwand is proficient in Chinese-Mandarin and Hebrew and is a four-year U.S. Army Veteran who served in Military Intelligence.