Gerard Filitti is Senior Counsel at The Lawfare Project, an international non-profit legal think tank and litigation fund based in New York City. A litigator, political strategist, and regional expert on the Middle East and Central Asia, he has expertise in public policy, national security law and policy, counterterrorism, international law, civil and human rights, and economics. A trial lawyer and commercial litigator with nearly two decades of experience, Gerard has handled a wide variety of cases in state and federal courts. He has also pursued civil counter-terrorism litigation with an emphasis on money laundering investigations and sanctions violations, and represented victims of international acts of terrorism. Gerard holds degrees from New York University, the School of Oriental ...