Eun Young Choi

Partner
Arnold & Porter

Former:
Deputy Assistant Attorney General for National Asset Protection
(and overseeing National Security Cyber Section)
National Security Division
Department of Justice (DOJ)

Member
DOJ’s Emerging Technology Board

Inaugural Director
National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team, DOJ

An accomplished former federal prosecutor, Eun Young Choi brings more than a dozen years of experience at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in advising clients on a wide range of white collar and national security matters. Eun Young held senior positions across the DOJ, where she served as a leader in its efforts to address technology-based risks to public safety and national security, and regularly represented the DOJ in high-level interagency, international, and public engagements. Drawing on these experiences, Eun Young counsels companies on key areas such as cybersecurity, cryptocurrency, artificial intelligence, and other emerging technologies, along with internal and government investigations and related complex and sensitive matters.

Most recently, Eun Young served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General for National Asset Protection in the National Security Division, where she oversaw the creation of the National Security Cyber Section, which spearheads the DOJ’s efforts to disrupt and respond to malicious cyber activity posed by nation-state adversaries; supervised and shaped the DOJ’s criminal enforcement programs for sanctions, export controls, economic espionage, foreign malign influence, and the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), including corporate enforcement actions related to national security laws and authorities; and led the DOJ’s review of foreign investment, data security, and emerging technology risks to national security. Eun Young was also a founding member of DOJ’s Emerging Technology Board, which coordinates and governs the use of AI and other emerging technologies across the Department and its law enforcement components.