With experience as a senior U.S. diplomat, corporate lawyer, criminal prosecutor, and military officer, Elan Carr provides a diverse set of skills and an influential voice on global issues affecting both public policy and the private sector. He serves as a visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a teaching fellow at the University of Southern California, and a member of both for-profit and non-profit boards of directors.

In 2019, Mr. Carr was appointed United States Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism. As the senior diplomatic representative of the United States and the chief advisor to the Secretary of State on the subject of anti-Semitism, he directed America’s global policies and programs aimed at combating it. While in office, he negotiated groundbreaking agreements with foreign governments, convened the first-ever U.S. Government-sponsored conference on combating online hate, and focused the attention of foreign and domestic law enforcement leaders on the importance of hate crimes prosecutions. During his tenure, his office was voted by Congress to be given the rank of Ambassador.

Prior to his federal appointment, Mr. Carr prosecuted violent felony crimes for more than a decade as a Deputy District Attorney for Los Angeles County. He prosecuted murders, sexual assaults, child molestations, and cases involving Southern California’s most notorious criminal street gangs. He was also one of LA County’s few specially-designated animal cruelty prosecutors.

As a private sector attorney, Mr. Carr represented major corporations in general commercial litigation, intellectual property litigation, and white collar criminal defense at leading corporate law firms, including Irell & Manella and Epstein Becker & Green in Los Angeles, and Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler in New York.

Mr. Carr is an officer in the United States Army Reserve and received multiple awards for his two decades of military service. In 2003-04, he spent nearly a year on military deployment in Iraq, where he helped to lead a joint anti-terrorism team in life-saving missions and prosecuted terrorists. He also helped to establish an independent Iraqi judiciary and trained Iraqi judges on constitutional law and criminal defense.

Mr. Carr holds a B.A. in philosophy and political science, with honors, from the University of California Berkeley and a J.D. from the Northwestern University School of Law. He is married to Dr. Dahlia T. Carr, a rheumatologist in private practice, and they have three children, Hannah, Rachelle, and Samuel.