Loyaan A. Egal

Loyaan previously served as special advisor to the FCC chairwoman where he advised her on complex enforcement and policy matters. Prior to that, he was chief of the FCC Enforcement Bureau and was responsible for supervising and directing its investigative, charging, and settlement decisions; engaging with state, federal, and international regulatory and law enforcement partners; coordinating with other bureaus and offices on rulemaking and policy initiatives; and public outreach efforts. During his tenure as chief of FCC, Loyaan was appointed by the chairwoman to lead the FCC’s first Privacy and Data Protection Task Force (PDPTF). As head of the PDPTF, he oversaw coordination efforts across 14 FCC bureaus and offices to address privacy, data protection, and cybersecurity concerns involving communications technologies and networks through the rulemaking process, enforcement actions, and public engagement.

Under his leadership, the FCC brought the first enforcement actions involving the illegal use of communications networks to facilitate the dissemination and misuse of deepfake generative artificial intelligence (AI) voice-cloning technology; settled the first space debris enforcement action; reached comprehensive settlement agreements with each of the three major wireless communications service providers that resolved multiple investigations and significantly enhanced privacy, data, cyber, and supply chain protections; required the divesture of Russian ownership interests and the payment of a fine by a telecommunications company that failed to disclose its foreign ownership interests accurately; issued its largest fine ever against a group of transnational entities that were responsible for billions of illegal robocalls; and participated with the US Department of Justice (DOJ) in global settlements of parallel investigations involving FCC-administered multibillion-dollar programs and the False Claims Act (FCA).   

At the DOJ, Loyaan’s groundbreaking work involving national security and foreign investment, ownership, and participation in US communications networks (including submarine cable systems) and ICTS supply chains resulted in several US Attorney General and DOJ Assistant Attorney General for National Security awards. In his capacity as a deputy chief in the Foreign Investment Review Section (FIRS) of the National Security Division (NSD), he directly oversaw the daily operations of the Committee for the Assessment of Foreign Participation in the United States Telecommunications Services Sector (informally known as Team Telecom) as the inaugural staff chair following the authorization and implementation of Executive Order (EO) 13913. He supervised the coordination of parallel reviews involving Team Telecom and the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). Loyaan also supervised DOJ’s role, under EO 13873, in identifying and addressing national security and cybersecurity risks emanating from threats and vulnerabilities to the US ICTS supply chain.

Prior to serving in FIRS-NSD, during Loyaan’s tenure at the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau, he established and led the Universal Service Fund Strike Force (now known as the Fraud Division), the FCC’s first white collar fraud unit. During his time there, he supervised and directed investigations and enforcement actions that resulted in more than $190 million in proposed fines, restitution, FCC settlements, and coordinated global settlements of parallel investigations with DOJ in connection with the Communications Act, FCC regulations, and the FCA.

Earlier in his career, Loyaan was an assistant United States attorney in the Southern District of New York and the District of Columbia, where he investigated and prosecuted cases involving bribery, public corruption, financial fraud (bank, mail, wire, procurement, and tax), campaign finance fraud, and international narcotics trafficking and money laundering. Before joining the DOJ, Loyaan clerked for the Honorable Alia Moses, US District Court Judge for the Western District of Texas.