Michael B. Greenwald
Co-Chair, The Palm Beach Synagogue Summit to Combat Antisemitism
2023
Michael B. Greenwald is a senior executive for Amazon Web Services (AWS) serving as the global lead for digital assets and financial innovation. Previously, he was a managing director and director of digital asset education for Tiedemann Advisors. He was the first U.S. Treasury attaché to Qatar and Kuwait, acting as the principal liaison to the banking sector in those nations for two presidential administrations from 2010-2017. Michael is an adjunct professor at Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) where he previously directed a digital asset capstone program, a former fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council Geoeconomics Center, an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for New American Security, and is deputy director at the Trilateral Commission. Michael serves as a representative member for AWS of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Technology Advisory Committee. He holds a Juris Doctor from Boston University, a Master’s from Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, a Bachelor of Arts in History from George Washington University and is currently pursuing the General Management Executive Education Program at Harvard Business School.
At the Summit
The Summit unites the public and private sectors, domestic and international, against hate and extremism. Researchers, activists, lawyers, technology experts, political leaders, and more come together, each bringing their unique tools to the fight. Important relationships that were established at the Summit in 2021 have carried forward into working groups with concrete deliverables for 2022 and beyond.
