Jesse Sucher is a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Economic Statecraft Initiative in the GeoEconomics Center. He is also a consultant in the private sector, where he advises clients on the geopolitical, national security, and regulatory risks of complex, cross-border corporate matters.

Previously, Sucher held several senior positions at the US Department of the Treasury. In the Office of Investment Security, he was the senior advisor to the assistant secretary of investment security, covering the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and the Outbound Investment Security Program. Sucher was also a deputy director and founding member of the first enforcement arm of CFIUS, where he helped modernize CFIUS compliance and enforcement practices. In Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), Sucher was an investigator and section chief, where he developed and implemented sanctions policies, targeting efforts, enforcement cases, as well as the strategic integration of sanctions within Treasury’s broader work to combat illicit finance.

Sucher received several awards during his government service, including the OFAC Distinguished Employee of the Year Award, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network director’s Law Enforcement Award, and the secretary of the treasury’s Meritorious Service Award.

Sucher graduated cum laude from Middlebury College with a BA in political science, and he holds an MSc in comparative politics from the London School of Economics and political science. He also holds an executive certificate in public leadership from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.