Nathan Swinton

Associate General Counsel, Director, Regulatory Strategy at Cloudflare

Washington, District of Columbia, United States

About

Experience

  • Associate General Counsel, Director, Regulatory Strategy at Cloudflare
    Jan 2026 - Present · 6 mos

  • Chief Counsel for Industry and Security at U.S. Department of Commerce
    Nov 2024 - Jun 2025 · 8 mos

    Lead team of 30 attorneys providing legal counsel to Bureau of Industry and Security in furtherance if its mission to promote U.S. national security and foreign policy interests with respect to advanced technologies and to secure U.S. innovation.

  • U.S. Department of Justice (14 yrs 1 mo)
    • Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for National Security
      Jan 2023 - Oct 2024 · 1 yr 10 mos

    • Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for National Security
      Feb 2022 - Dec 2022 · 11 mos

    • Trial Attorney
      Aug 2020 - Jan 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos

      Trial attorney in the Counterintelligence and Export Control Section, National Security Division

  • Adjunct Professor Of Law at Georgetown University Law Center
    Aug 2015 - Dec 2021 · 6 yrs 5 mos

    Classes taught include a Government Lawyering practicum in the JD program and U.S. Legal Research, Writing, and Analysis in the LLM program

  • Ian Axford (New Zealand) Fellow in Public Policy at Ministry of Justice - New Zealand
    Feb 2019 - Sep 2019 · 8 mos

    Undertook a study of New Zealand's firearm laws and efforts at regulatory compliance in the wake of the March 2019 Christchurch attacks. I was co-hosted by the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Police for this project.