PERSON: Daniel Jones

Advance Democracy, Inc.

President

Daniel J. Jones is an American former United States Senate investigator who served as the senior staff lead in the investigation into the CIA’s use of torture in the wake of the September 11 attacks. Jones is the founder and president of Advance Democracy, Inc. (ADI), a nonpartisan, non-profit organization that conducts public interest investigations around the world that promote “accountability, transparency, and good governance,” according to its description. Jones is also the founder of The Penn Quarter Group, a research and investigative advisory headquartered in Washington, D.C..

Jones previously worked as an investigator for the Senate and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). As a staff member of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, he led several prominent investigations, including the Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture, also known as The Torture Report.

Jones was a fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard Kennedy School from 2017 to 2019.

Jones is originally from Pennsylvania. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, a Master of Arts in teaching from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and a Master of Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University.

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