Josh Birenbaum
CEFP Deputy Director
Biography
Josh Birenbaum is the deputy director of the Center on Economic and Financial Power (CEFP) at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD). He is an expert on economic security and illicit finance, with a focus on corruption, anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT), economic statecraft, critical supply chains, and economic power competition.
Josh has appeared on Fox News, BBC Radio, Times Radio, and CBN; he has been published by the New York Post, Newsweek, National Review, The Hill, The National Interest, The Washington Examiner, Euronews, and The Telegraph.
Prior to FDD, Josh was with TRACE International, writing on corruption, money laundering, sanctions, export controls, compliance, human rights, and illicit finance. Josh began his career as a litigator at Howrey LLC in Washington, DC. He earned his J.D. from the University of Virginia and his B.A. from Bard College.