Elad serves as Director of Investigations and Training on the Strategy Risks’ research team. Elad uses his experience as a historian to conduct open-source research, specializing in mapping social, political, and commercial networks, identifying bad actors in supply chains, and adversarial research.

Elad studied Chinese at Peking University and Yunnan Normal University. He holds a BA in East Asian Studies and History and an MA in East Asian Studies from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and a PhD in History from the University of California, Davis. Elad previously served as director of investigations for Channel Precision.