Daniel is an attorney, professor, board member, and public advocate for good technology governance. He leads cybersecurity legal at Sophos and teaches graduate students at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). He shares his expertise on technology governance and digital trust, leadership, cyber risk, and digital democracy in appearances online and in-person and his work has been featured by global think tanks, including the Council on Foreign Relations and the Observer Research Foundation, as well as leading publications, including Harvard Business Review, CNBC, and Wired.

Formerly the Head of Governance and Trust at the World Economic Forum, he established the Forum’s work on corporate as well as global governance of new and emerging technology and digital trust. At WEF, he served as a leader in the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the Centre for AI Excellence, and was a founder of the Forum’s Centre for Cybersecurity. After joining the Forum as a Global Leadership Fellow, Daniel led efforts to understand and shape global technology and cybersecurity norms, law, regulation, and standards. 

Daniel practiced law at WilmerHale in Washington, DC and Jones Day in San Francisco. In private practice, he counseled technology sector clients on antitrust/competition, consumer protection, and privacy matters in regulatory proceedings, investigations, and litigation. He has also worked extensively in the US on civil rights issues, including voter protection and election law. His legal work was dedicated to understanding how law and regulation can respond to significant and rapid technological change.

He has served as an Expert Advisor to the Global Forum on Technology at the OECD and as a Commissioner on the National Association of Corporate Directors’ Blue Ribbon Commission on Board Oversight of Technology. He is a member of the New York Cyber Task Force (convened by Columbia University) and ISACA’s Digital Trust Advisory Council. Daniel sits on the board of Karhana Global, a technology education organization, and as a past board member of the Cyber Risk Institute and Cornerstone Academy. Daniel has been recognized by the NACD in its Directorship 100 as one of the most influential leaders in the corporate governance community for his pioneering work on technology governance at the board level.

Before practicing law, Daniel was a high school teacher in Paterson, New Jersey with Teach for America. In 2024, he was awarded the New Jersey Governor's Teacher Recognition Award (Teacher of the Year) by his colleagues. He holds an MPA from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, a JD from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law where he was an editor of the Berkeley Technology Law Journal, and a BA from the Johns Hopkins University.