Anjana Rajan is a cryptographer, technology executive, and entrepreneur who works at the nexus of national security and human rights. Prior to joining the White House, she was the first Chief Technology Officer of Polaris, the largest anti-human trafficking NGO in the United States. In this role, she architected Polaris’s web3 & human rights vision and built a proactive security strategy to defend the organization against foreign malign influence operations and violent extremist threats.
Previously, Anjana was a Tech Policy Fellow at the Aspen Institute, was a former Y Combinator founder, led open-source development of advanced cryptographic libraries, and worked at Palantir Technologies. She was a Knight Scholar at Cornell University’s Engineering School and received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Operations Research Engineering.
