Education
University of California at Berkeley (B.A., with Honors)
Postgraduate work at Georgetown School of Foreign Service Security Studies Program
Dan Shalmon is a member of the firm’s research, investigation, and intelligence team. His work supports the firm’s anti-terrorism and human trafficking-related litigation, leveraging open-source intelligence and proprietary tools to identify and map the behavior of sanctions evasion, human trafficking, and terrorist finance networks. His research has been used against a diverse assortment of defendants including banks, telecommunications and software firms, building materials producers, construction and engineering services providers, and state sponsors of terrorism. Mr. Shalmon’s anti-terrorism research and investigation practice tracks a rogue’s gallery of terrorist and transnational criminal networks responsible for attacks on Americans all around the world, including in the Middle East, North Africa, the Sahel, Central Asia, and Europe.
Before joining Sparacino PLLC, Mr. Shalmon was Chief Analytics Officer for a strategic communications and employee assessment consultancy. He also worked at the University of Illinois’ Cline Center for Advanced Social Research, an interdisciplinary organization that focuses on terrorism, conflict dynamics, and law enforcement using extreme-scale AI-driven media analytics. In that role, he developed several collaborative projects and public-private partnerships, including a founding membership in the Global Registry of Violent Deaths consortium, an international association of scientific and policy research organizations convened by the Brookings Institution and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) that aims to catalogue every death caused by political violence anywhere in the world.
Previously, Mr. Shalmon worked as a consultant and contractor for the U.S. Department of Defense and other U.S. government agencies and has also served in research positions at Harvard and the University of Chicago.
Mr. Shalmon’s work on national security issues and crisis-related media coverage has been published in publications including Foreign Affairs, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and American Behavioral Scientist, and in edited volumes published by Oxford University Press and the Brookings Institution.
Mr. Shalmon is not a lawyer, does not provide legal advice, and works under the supervision of partners of the Firm who are licensed to practice law in Washington, D.C.