Rachel Ehrenfeld is Director of the New York-based Economic Warfare Institute (EWI) at the American Center for Democracy (ACD), and the author of Funding Evil; How Terrorism is Financed ­ and How to Stop It (BonusBooks, 2003, 2005); Evil Money ­ Encounters Along the Money Trail (HarperCollins, 1992, SPI, 1994), and Narco-Terrorism (Basic Books, 1990, 1992).

Ehrenfeld is an authority on the shadowy movement of funds through international banking and governments to fund terrorism. She focuses on economic warfare strategies against the U.S. and the West, and the challenges to freedom, democracy and capitalism by opposing regimes.

Ehrenfeld’s initiative to fight “libel tourism” led within two years to anti-libel tourism laws in seven states in the U.S., and the SPEECH Act ( S.3518. ), now pending in Congress.

Dr. Ehrenfeld served as consultant for different U.S. and foreign government agencies, public and private entities. She organized and lectured in conferences for the White House, Cambridge’s Jesus College, as well as for governmental and non-governmental, local and international organizations in Brazil, England, France, Italy, Israel, Kazakhstan, Monaco, Sweden, Switzerland, and the U.S. Dr. Ehrenfeld testified on terror financing, corruption and narco-terrorism before the US Congress, the Canadian and European Parliaments, US courts, and in front of a Grand Jury. She and the ACD have been official election monitors in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kirgizstan and Morocco.

Her articles have appeared in publications such as Forbes; the Guardian; The New York Times; Los Angeles Times; The Wall Street Journal; Huffington Post, and many others, and she appears frequently on national and international radio and TV.

She has been a visiting scholar at the Columbia University Institute of War and Peace Studies, a research scholar at New York University’s School of Law, a fellow at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and Jesus College at Cambridge University. Ehrenfeld’s Ph.D. in Criminology is from the Hebrew University School of Law.

email: ehrenfeld@acdemocracy.org; web: acdemocracy.org