David S. Cohen

David Cohen is a visiting lecturer in law at Yale Law School. Until January 2025, Cohen was the deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency, where he assisted the director in overseeing domestic and worldwide operations, foreign intelligence collection, covert action, counter-intelligence operations, and foreign liaison relationships; he served in the same role from 2015–2017. Prior to his work at the Agency, Cohen was a partner at WilmerHale, where he was a member of the Regulatory and Government Affairs, and Litigation departments. He also served as the undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence and assistant secretary for terrorist financing at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. He clerked for Judge Norman P. Ramsey on the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. Cohen earned a B.A. from Cornell University and a J.D. from Yale Law School.