Daniel Ackerman is senior director of global intellectual property enforcement for the Alibaba Group. He is based in Washington, D.C. He was previously the U.S. Justice Department’s international computer hacking and intellectual property adviser (ICHIP) for Latin America and the Caribbean for six years, first at the U.S. Consulate General in São Paulo, Brazil, from September 2016 until September 2020, and then at the U.S. Embassy in Panama City, Panama, until September 2022, when he joined the Alibaba Group. He was also an assistant United States attorney for the Central District of California from May 2008 until September 2016. During his tenure there, he investigated and prosecuted intellectual property crimes, such as trademark and copyright infringement, as well as other crimes like drug misbranding, fraud, tax evasion, narcotics trafficking, currency structuring, and smuggling. He successfully prosecuted the largest drug trafficking case in the history of the Riverside Branch office, a 52-defendant gang-related narcotics conspiracy case. He also served as the Branch’s computer hacking and intellectual property coordinator, health care fraud coordinator, and tribal liaison. He served too on the hiring committee. In 2015, he also served as the Department’s intellectual property law enforcement coordinator at the U.S. Embassy in Brasilia, Brazil and, in 2012, as the Department’s adviser on narcotics-related money laundering and asset forfeiture at the U.S. Embassy in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. He was previously a deputy district attorney in California and adjunct professor of white-collar crime at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. He graduated from the University of Southern California Law School and Columbia University in New York.