Jonathan Panikoff is senior director of the Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative at the Atlantic Council, where he leads the organization’s work on pan-regional Middle East politics and security in addition to directing the South Asia portfolio. He is concurrently a senior fellow in the Atlantic Council’s Geoeconomics Center, focusing on foreign investment and national security issues.

A former career US intelligence officer, Panikoff served from 2015 to 2020 as deputy national intelligence officer for the Near East at the National Intelligence Council, overseeing Intelligence Community analysis on the Levant and the Gulf. He later led analytic support for the 2020 US presidential transition and, in his final Intelligence Community role, served as director of the Investment Security Group, overseeing efforts related to foreign investment reviews, including matters involving the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States and Team Telecom.