Loyaan Egal is, quite literally, an African American—born to a Somali father and an American mother.
That kind of cultural whiplash—ninth grade in Saudi Arabia, tenth grade in New York City—does something to you. In Loyaan’s case, it taught him how to adapt fast, read his environment, and say yes when opportunities showed up in unusual packaging.
And he’s said yes to a lot: from interning in the music industry while attending St. John’s University—rubbing shoulders with names like Notorious B.I.G. and Mary J. Blige—to serving as a federal prosecutor in Manhattan and D.C., to running national security risk reviews involving foreign investment, telecommunications, and ICTS supply chain at the Department of Justice. Most recently, he served as Chief of the Enforcement Bureau at the FCC, where he helped lead the agency’s work on robocalls, national security, fraud enforcement, and the focused push to address privacy, data protection, and cybersecurity concerns by protecting U.S. communications networks and the sensitive data that traverse them as head of the FCC’s Privacy and Data Protection Task Force.
