Jordan Hirsch works on technology and national security as a Senior Counselor at Palantir and a Senior Fellow at the Strauss Center. He previously practiced at Covington & Burling, clerked for Judge José A. Cabranes, and worked as an editor at Foreign Affairs.
Jordan Hirsch works on technology and national security as a Senior Counselor at Palantir and a Senior Fellow at the Strauss Center. He previously practiced at Covington & Burling, clerked for Judge José A. Cabranes, and worked as an editor at Foreign Affairs.
Career
Jordan Hirsch studied at Yale Law School (J.D.) and Columbia University (Bachelor’s in History).
Term Member at Council on Foreign Relations from 2024-06 to PresentTerm membership in the foreign-policy organization; a professional affiliation.
Senior Counselor at Palantir Technologies from 2024 to PresentWorks on special projects with company leadership, including the Meritocracy Fellowship.RSSenior Fellow, Technology, Security and Global Affairs at Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law from 2022 to PresentWorks at the intersection of technology, national security and international affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.
PFGeneral Counsel at Private Foundation from 2022 to 2024Served as general counsel; the foundation is unnamed in his public professional history.
Attorney at Covington & Burling from 2018 to 2022Advised on cybersecurity incidents, national-security investigations, supply-chain security and aerospace and defense matters.UCLaw Clerk to Judge José A. Cabranes at U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 2017 to 2018Clerked for Judge José A. Cabranes.
CFNext Generation National Security Fellow at Center for a New American Security from 2017 to 2018Participated in the Shawn Brimley Next Generation National Security Leaders Fellowship.
CUVisiting Scholar, Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies at Columbia University from 2013 to 2017Held a visiting scholar affiliation and participated in foreign-policy programming.
FAStaff Editor at Foreign Affairs from 2011 to 2012Edited international-affairs coverage; previously served as assistant editor from 2010 to 2011.
Robert L. Bartley Fellow at The Wall Street Journal from 2010-06 to 2010-08Began his journalism career as a Bartley Fellow.