Michael B. Greenwald is a senior executive at Amazon Web Services serving as the Global Head for Digital Assets and Financial Innovation. Michael also represents Amazon on the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Technology Advisory Committee. Previously, he was a managing director of Digital Asset Education and Chief Geopolitical Risk Officer for global wealth and asset management firm AlTi Tiedemann Global. He was the first U.S. Treasury attaché to Qatar and Kuwait, acting as the principal financial diplomat to the banking sector in those nations, and, prior, he was in policy and intelligence roles in Europe and Africa for two presidential administrations from 2010-2017.
He is a former adjunct professor at Columbia University, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council as well as Center for New American Security, and Deputy Director of the Trilateral Commission. He was a former fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center where he wrote and published over 50 articles. He holds a Juris Doctor from Boston University, a Master’s from Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, a Bachelor of Arts in History from George Washington University and is currently pursuing the General Management Executive Education Program at Harvard Business School.