Biography
Carole House is an executive and thought leader on areas related to emerging technology and cyber policy, countering illicit finance, geostrategic competition and grayzone warfare, and risk management domains. Carole is currently an Executive in Residence at Terranet Ventures, Inc., and a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council and Georgetown University's Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET). She also currently serves as the Chair of the Technology Advisory Committee (TAC) to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), as well as being co-chair of the TAC's Decentralized Finance (DeFi) subcommittee. Carole sits on Advisory Boards for the think tank Third Way’s U.S.-China Digital World Order Initiative, the non-profit Digital Dollar Project, and several state financial regulatory agencies, as well as a Senior Advisor at FS Vector, a strategic consulting firm for financial services.
In 2022, Carole left the White House National Security Council (NSC), where she served as the Director for Cybersecurity and Secure Digital Innovation, driving Biden Administration efforts on countering ransomware, responsible innovation in digital assets, and digital identity. Carole joined the NSC from the U.S. Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), where she led cybersecurity, virtual currency, and emerging technology policy efforts. During her time at FinCEN, Carole led the agency's engagement at the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to develop and adopt the first ever international standards on virtual assets and related service providers, as well as supporting the FATF's development of its first guidance on digital identity.
Prior to FinCEN, Carole House worked as a Presidential Management Fellow supporting the White House Office of Management and Budget's Cyber and National Security Unit and the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on cybersecurity, supply chain risk management, and critical infrastructure protection policy issues and overseeing management of U.S. government agency budget and information technology modernization efforts to improve their cybersecurity postures. Carole is also a former U.S. Army Captain who served in chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) defense and military intelligence until November 2014, including a deployment to Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, from 2012 to 2013 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in international affairs from the University of Georgia and a Master of Arts in security studies from Georgetown University.