Aligning U.S.-Israeli Cooperation on Technology Issues and China Jonathan Schanzer, Shira Efron, Martijn Rasser, and Alice HicksonMARCH 2022
About the AuthorsDr. Jonathan Schanzer is senior vice president for research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) where he oversees the work of the organization’s experts and scholars. He is also on the leadership team of FDD’s Center on Economic and Financial Power, a project on the use of financial and economic power as a tool of statecraft. Schanzer previously worked as a terrorism finance analyst at the U.S. Department of the Treasury where he played an integral role in the designation of numerous terrorist financiers. He has held previous think tank research positions at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and the Middle East Forum.Dr. Shira Efron is director of research at Israeli Policy Forum, a senior research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies, and an adjunct fellow with the RAND Corporation. Her research focus is U.S. Middle East policy and the nexus between climate change and national security. Her studies are featured regularly in Israeli and international media outlets. Previously, Dr. Efron was a Middle East analyst at several think tanks in Washington, D.C., including the Center for American Progress and Middle East Institute. She has a PhD and MPhil in policy analysis from RAND’s Graduate School, an MA in international relations/international business from New York University, and a BSc in biology (major) and computer science (minor) from Tel Aviv University. She is a member of the board of directors of Deborah Forum, which promotes women in the security establishment. Martijn Rasser is Senior Fellow and Director of the Technology and National Security Program at CNAS. Previously he served as a senior intelligence officer and analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency. Upon leaving government service, Rasser was chief of staff at Muddy Waters Capital, an investment research firm. More recently he served as director of analysis at Kyndi, a venture-backed artificial intelligence start-up. Rasser holds a BA in anthropology from Bates College and an MA in security studies from Georgetown University.Alice Hickson is a former Joseph S. Nye Jr. Intern for the Middle East Security Program at CNAS. She previously interned at the Council on Foreign Relations as well as the Convergence Center for Policy Resolution. Additionally, she studied abroad in Amman, Jordan, where she conducted independent quantitative and qualitative research as a senior thesis scholar on Palestinian refugees and the right of return. Hickson recently graduated from Tufts University, majoring in international relations and Middle Eastern studies.About the CNAS Middle East Security ProgramThe Middle East Security Program conducts cutting-edge research on the most pressing issue...
