Alex Joel is a Senior Project Director and Resident Adjunct Professor at the American University Washington College of Law, where he leads the Privacy Across Borders initiative for the school’s Tech, Law and Security Program. From 2005 to 2019, Mr. Joel served as the Civil Liberties Protection Officer for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. For the last five years of his tenure at ODNI, he also served as Chief Transparency Officer. Before ODNI, Mr. Joel worked as an attorney at the Central Intelligence Agency; as the privacy and technology attorney for Marriott International; and as a technology attorney at a Washington D.C. law firm. Mr. Joel began his career as an officer in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps. Mr. Joel is a former member of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Privacy Professionals.