Daniel Lafayeedney is a British Director of the Institute for Statecraft, the organization behind the Integrity Initiative . ^{[0] [2]}

Lafayeedney was awarded a degree in Scots law from the University of Aberdeen and also holds a Diploma in International Comparative Law from San Diego State University . ^[0]

Lafayeedney was previously in the Special Air Service attached to a regiment that ran spy cells in Russia. ^[1] He was a Senior Associate Fellow at the Advanced Research and Assessment Group at the Defence Academy of the UK between 2004 and 2010.

He is a Senior Member, St Antony's College, Oxford and a Member of The Law Society of Scotland. ^[0]

He attended the Herzliya Conference representing a pro-Israeli advocacy organisation with close links to the Conservative Party (UK). ^[3]

Lafayeedney has owned and directed several companies as a real estate developer. These include the Gateside Mills Property Development Company Limited that owns the abandoned mill in Fife that the Institute for Statecraft claims as it's headquarters. ^[4] Lafayeedney was involved in a legal case in 2006 where the judge concluded he was "not telling the truth". ^[5]

Lafayeedney holds and has held directorships of several companies with Christopher Nigel Donnelly, including Pluscarden Investments LLP (2005-2010), ISG Corporate LLP and ISG Corporate Limited (2009 to present), Council on Foreign Relations LLP (2010 to present), Techfin London Limited (2014-2016). Lafayeedney and Donnelly are also trustees of a charity called the Active Change Foundation, founded in 2006. ^[4]

Layayeedney's daughter Arlette Marie Léontine was married to Sebastian Edward, Baron Seymour (son of John Seymour, 19th Duke of Somerset) in 2006 and divorced in 2011. ^[6]