Jonathan Katz is the Senior Director for the Anti-Corruption, Democracy, and Security (ACDS) Project in Governance Studies at Brookings. He is recognized as an anti-corruption, national security, international development, and democracy expert. Katz has held senior positions in the U.S. government at the State Department, USAID, and in Congress. Just prior to Brookings, Katz served as a National Security Fellow for Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minnesota).

Before that, Katz was a Senior Fellow and Director of Democracy Initiatives for the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) where his programmatic activities and research focused on investigative journalism and free media, anti-corruption efforts, civil society and democracy promotion, and good governance reforms in Central and Eastern Europe, the South Caucasus, and Turkey. While at GMF, Katz served as Executive Director and managed the Transatlantic Democracy Working Group (TDWG) and helped create and served as co-chair for the Transatlantic Task Force for Ukraine (TTFU).  At USAID, Katz served as the deputy assistant administrator in USAID’s Europe and Eurasia Bureau overseeing U.S. development assistance programs in Ukraine and the broader region.