Confirmed speakers include:
Justin Baldacchino joined the DFSA in January 2020, where he is responsible for providing an effective and efficient risk-based supervision strategy consistent with the DFSA’s strategic and business objectives. Mr Baldacchino has 25 years of experience in international finance, and brings a wealth expertise in regulatory interpretation, liaison, and implementation to the organisation. His extensive background encompasses private, commercial, corporate, institutional and investment banking, with a focus on risk, regulatory affairs, compliance, credit, operational and market risk, governance, anti-money laundering (AML), capital, liquidity, innovation, and technology.
Previously, Mr Baldacchino served as the Head of Regulatory Compliance for ANZ Bank, leading the strategic management of regulator relationships in Australia. Prior to that, he worked at JP Morgan in Hong Kong, holding various roles, including Head of Regulatory Compliance, APAC and Head of International Operational Risk, APAC, where he defined and led operational risk control, capital and regulatory governance framework for all business lines across 14 countries. Before JP Morgan, Mr Baldacchino was the Head of Compliance and Risk Governance, Asia for National Australia Bank in Hong Kong, and held several executive roles in Australia.
Mr Baldacchino is a distinguished alumnus of Melbourne Business School, holding an MBA and Post Graduate Diploma, along with a Bachelor of Economics from La Trobe University. He further augmented his expertise by completing the Global Certificate Program for Regulators of Securities Markets from Harvard Law School and the Harvard Executive Program in Regulatory Strategic Management in Boston. Certified as an AML Specialist, Mr Baldacchino also served as an Executive Board Member for the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists in Hong Kong. Presently, he is a member of The Basel Consultative Group (BCG), fostering collaboration on banking supervisory issues globally.
Andrea is a highly accomplished C-level leader and former commercial litigator with a rewarding career spanning over 25 years. She has spent the last 18 years in the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), including 14 years in FCA Enforcement, advancing to influential positions, including Chief of Staff to the CEO, Nikhil Rathi, and more recently, Director of Specialist Directorate, Supervision, Policy and Competition, which includes Financial Crime Market Intervention, Fraud & Financial Crime Policy and Office for Professional Body Anti-Money Laundering Supervision (OPBAS). She co-leads the FCA’s current three-year strategy commitment to reducing and preventing financial crime, contributing to the UK’s national Economic Crime Plan and Fraud Strategy.
As a change enabler, Andrea co-lead the FCA’s ambitious transformation programme, revolutionising how the regulator operates and strengthening its ability to achieve its core objectives.
She is Chair of the International Organisation of Securities Commission’s (E)MMoU Monitoring Group and Monitoring Steering Committee, responsible for monitoring the operation of, and compliance with, the (E)MMoU, including decision making on disputes and matters of non-compliance.
A respected mentor, coach and sponsor, Andrea actively supports multiple Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives and co-sponsors the FCA’s Elevate Network, empowering multi-ethnic women across the business.
Oliver Bullough is an award-winning investigative journalist specialising in the area of corruption. He is the author of Moneyland: Why Thieves and Crooks Now Rule the World and How to Take It Back. His previous books include Last Man in Russia: the Struggle to Save a Dying Nation and Let Our Fame Be Great. Oliver has written extensively in newspapers on issues of financial transparency and corruption. He is currently on the board of the Anti-Corruption Action Centre (AntAC) in Ukraine.
J. Edward 'Ned' Conway is the Executive Secretary of the Wolfsberg Group, an association of 12 global banks which aims to develop frameworks and guidance for the management of financial crime risks. Mr. Conway is also on the advisory board of the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS), and he chairs the UN’s Private Sector Dialogue on the disruption of financial crimes related to environmental crime. He has previously held positions at Santander, Barclays, PwC, and the US Department of Defense.
Graham is responsible for Google's FS, Legal and Professional Services customers across the UK. He started his career as a developer in the 90s building settlement platforms before moving into management consulting and working on large IT transformation and go-to-market projects. Graham’s work at Google has seen him work with and influence some of the leading adopters of cloud and AI technologies for a range of applications including financial crime, regulatory reporting and sustainability reporting.
Originally from Canada, Wendy has spent the past two decades of her career in Asia, specifically in Singapore and Hong Kong, within the financial services and banking sectors.
In July 2024, Wendy stepped into the role of Global Head, FCC Program and Engagement, principally focused on enabling the successful implementation of Financial Crime controls across Standard Chartered globally. In addition, Wendy leads Group-wide Financial Crime outreach and advocacy, in support of SCB’s strategy and purpose. Prior to this role Wendy double hatted as the Asia Head of Financial Crime and the Asia Head of CFCC Governance at SCB. She has held regional roles in Financial Crime, Operations and Sales at organizations including JPMorgan and American Express. Wendy was also a founding member of Mox Bank in Hong Kong, where she led the development of the financial crime function.
Wendy has chaired various committees and working groups in support of industry exchange and innovation in financial crime compliance.
Dara Fernandez is the Sanctions General Counsel at Honeywell. Dara holds a leadership role in the sanctions compliance risk management agenda for this US- headquartered aerospace technologies, building automation, energy and sustainability solutions, and industrial automation company.
Previously, she was the Global Head of Financial Crime for Bupa Group, where she led the anti-corruption, anti-money laundering, sanctions, and fraud prevention agenda for the British multinational group.
She is a US qualified lawyer and has been working, passionately, on the prevention of financial crime with special focus on financial sanctions since 2013.
Andrew Fierman is currently the Head of National Security Intelligence for Chainalysis. Prior to joining the crypto space, Andrew spent almost a decade developing proactive sanctions compliance programs in global financial institutions, including at JPMorgan Chase, Societe Generale and most recently, as the Head of Americas Sanctions at Barclays.
Marc is the global head of financial crime at Stripe, responsible for overseeing the financial crime programme and effective management of risks across all Stripe’s products, services, and jurisdictions, while supporting Stripe’s mission to grow the GDP of the Internet. Based in London, Marc moved to the UK in 2013 to join HSBC following their 2012 DPA to create and then lead the FIU to drive complex intelligence-led investigations across HSBC’s global footprint and later led HSBC’s Global Compliance Analytics function, overseeing AML TM, sanctions name screening, fraud, and other compliance-related models.
Earlier in his career, Marc served in a number of US government roles, including in the US Treasury at the the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and Office of Intelligence and Analysis (OIA), following roles in diplomatic service and the US Intelligence Community.
Dr Susan Hawley is an anti-corruption expert who has researched and campaigned on the UK’s role in facilitating global corruption for over 20 years. Her work has included taking the UK Export Credits Guarantee Department to court for weakening anti-bribery procedures and being part of efforts to ensure that corporate liability was included in the Bribery Act. She is a founder of Spotlight on Corruption, having previously worked at Corruption Watch UK, The Corner House and Christian Aid on corruption issues.
Miles Johnson is an investigative reporter at the Financial Times who often writes about international crime and corruption. He has reported on subjects including Russian mercenaries, Mayfair casino robberies, international cocaine trafficking, state-sponsored assassinations and money laundering by the Italian mafia.
He has received several international awards for his work, including an Overseas Press Club of America award, and has been a finalist for both British Foreign Reporter and British Business Journalist of the year.
His first book, Chasing Shadows: A True Story of the Mafia, Drugs and Terrorism, was published by Little, Brown in 2023 and was longlisted for the CWA’s Gold Dagger for nonfiction prize. Miles’s 8-part investigative podcast about global organised crime, Hot Money: The New Narcos, was released in 2024 and won a Webby and SABEW award.
Tom Keatinge is the founding Director of the Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies (CFCS) at RUSI, where his research focuses on matters at the intersection of finance and security. He is also currently a specialist adviser on illicit finance to the UK Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee ongoing enquiry.
He has a Master’s in Intelligence and International Security from King’s College London, where he studied the effectiveness of the global counterterror finance regime. Prior to joining RUSI in 2014, he was an investment banker for 20 years at J.P. Morgan.
His research on finance and security considers a number of themes including the financial dimension of state threats, sanctions, terrorist financing, proliferation financing and organised crime. He has contributed to a variety of publications and media outlets; has given evidence to UK parliamentary and US congressional hearings and spoken at a range of high-level multilateral forums including the UN Security Council and the Financial Action Task Force and a number of its regional bodies.
Eliza Lockhart is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Finance and Security at RUSI. Her research examines matters at the intersection of law, finance, and global security; with a particular focus on how evidence-based policy can promote democratic resilience and protect the rule of law against foreign interference. Eliza’s current projects include whistleblowing, state threats and economic security.
Eliza is a lawyer and legal policy expert. She previously worked in Australia for Linklaters and has experience with international financial crime investigations, whistleblower investigations and high-profile litigation. Eliza has advised on anti-bribery and corruption matters including election fraud, risk and compliance practices, disruptive technologies, and intellectual property law.
Prior to joining RUSI, Eliza was Associate to The Hon. Justice Kenny AM, a senior judge of the Federal Court of Australia and Chairperson of the Australian Electoral Commission. During the 2022 Australian federal election, Eliza gained expertise in electoral integrity matters.
Eliza holds a Master of Law and an MPhil in Public Policy, both with Distinction from the University of Cambridge.
Eglė Lukošienė has extensive experience accumulated in private and public institutions. For the past 10 years, she worked in financial market supervision at the Central Bank of Lithuania. Throughout this time, she also led teams and contributed to their professional development. Eglė further strengthened her skills of leadership at BMI Executive Institute, where she completed the International Executive MBA Programme. Because of the diverse professional practice, Eglė has comprehensive knowledge of the operational principles of the financial service industry and understands well the importance of public and private partnerships.
Will Lyne is currently the Head of Intelligence at the National Crime Agency’s National Cyber Crime Unit (NCCU), leading a range of multidisciplinary teams that lead, support and coordinate the Law Enforcement cybercrime response in the UK.
Will has worked in Law Enforcement over 12 years. From 2011 to 2013, Will worked in Afghanistan delivering counter narcotics investigations with local, military and international partners, before joining the NCCU in 2013. From 2016 to 2020, Will was an International Liaison Officer assigned to the FBI’s Cyber Division in Washington D.C., USA.
Will is an experienced and internationally respected leader in the field of serious and organised online investigations, leading on a number of high profile cases covering money laundering, fraud, kidnap & extortion and computer misuse.
A 2008 Graduate of University College London and a 2018 Graduate of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Will is currently studying for PHD at the University of Cambridge Institute of Criminology, focusing the ransomware threat.
David O’Sullivan was appointed as EU’s Sanctions Envoy in December 2022 and formally took up his role in the second half of January 2023. Prior to his appointment as Sanctions Envoy, he was a Director General of the Institute for International and European Affairs, a leading Irish think tank. Prior to that, he joined the Brussels office of the law firm of Steptoe and Johnson LLP as a Senior Counsellor (2019-2022). David O’Sullivan served as Ambassador of the European Union Delegation to the United States from November 2014 until February 2019.
Prior to his appointment as Ambassador, he was the Chief Operating Officer of the EU's new diplomatic service, the ‘European External Action Service’. He had previously held a number senior positions within the European Commission including Director General for Trade (2005- 2010); Secretary General of the European Commission (2000-2005); and Chief of Staff to Commission President Romano Prodi (1999-2000). Before joining the Commission, he started his career with the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs (1977-1979). He is a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin and the College of Europe (Bruges), and holds Honorary Doctorates from the Dublin Institute of Technology and Trinity College Dublin. He was awarded the EU Transatlantic Business Award by the American Chamber of Commerce in 2014.
In 2019, he was awarded the Légion D’Honneur by France and made a Grand Officier de l’Ordre de Léopold by Belgium. He is a Member of the Governing Board of the European Policy Centre, and a Member of the Governing Board of the King Baudouin Foundation.
Joe Powell MP, Chair of the APPG on Anti-Corruption & Responsible Tax Joe is the MP for Kensington and Bayswater and the Chair of the APPG on Anti-Corruption and Responsible Tax. He is a member of the Housing, Communities and Local Government Select Committee. Before his election in July 2024, was the Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Open Government Partnership (OGP). Former Deputy CEO, Open Government Partnership founded by Barack Obama, 2016-24. Senior policy manager, ONE campaign, 2009-13; online editor, Independent magazine (Uganda), 2008-09; policy adviser, Action Aid, 2007-08. Co-founder, Kensington Against Dirty Money campaign. Ed: University College Sch. St Catharine’s Coll, Cambridge (BA, geography); Makerere University, Uganda. Named inaugural Obama Foundation Europe Leader, 2020. Founder of the 'Kensington Against Dirty Money' campaign, 2022.
Dr Kinga Redlowska is the Head of CFS Europe. She leads the Centre for Finance and Security's activities in Brussels that centre around the intersection of illicit finance and security, and are focused on the EU and its neighbourhood. The list of flagship projects implemented through the CFS Brussels office includes Euro SIFMANet (European Sanctions and Illicit Finance Monitoring and Analysis Network) and Project SMURF (Supervising and Monitoring Ukraine’s Reconstruction Funds).
Prior to joining RUSI, she served as a Programme Director at the Warsaw-based Institute for Eastern Studies, the organiser of the renowned geopolitical conference Economic Forum. Kinga authored articles on Central Europe, transatlantic relations, and the US and the EU activities in sub-Saharan Africa. She is an alumna of the Denton Fellowship Program held by a Washington-based Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA). She holds an MA in American Studies and a Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of Warsaw.
Tony Sales is the Co-Founder of We Fight Fraud and Underworld TV. As a child Tony, was drawn into a world of crime, that would lead into adulthood, with devastating consequences, not only for Tony but for financial institutions around the world. In 2009, after spending half a decade as a fugitive, Tony went to prison. During the sentence, and a visit from his wife and children he had an epiphany. He wanted to make up to his victims by using his knowledge to prevent financial crime. Everyone laughed at first but for Tony, it seemed like an obvious fit.
In 2012 Tony said “Data is the new cash. Criminals understand the value of data, so businesses should expect data ransom attacks to be coming.” The year after the prediction, in 2013 ransomware became mainstream.
Over a decade later, Tony is considered one of the world’s leading authorities on Social Engineering, Fraud, and Cyber Crime. Working alongside leaders from law enforcement and academia, he has advised Governments, financial institutions and some of the world’s biggest brands on their fraud and financial crime strategy. His criminal insight has become invaluable, making him a popular figure who regularly appears on TV and Radio.
Jess Sommerlad is Head of Public Private Partnerships in the UK National Economic Crime Centre (NECC), a multi-agency centre, housed in the NCA, bringing together Law Enforcement, Government Departments, Regulatory Bodies and the Private Sector to provide a joint response to Economic Crime. In this capacity he is responsible for all of the NECC’s public private partnership activity with responsibility for the Joint Money Laundering Intelligence Taskforce (JMLIT). Prior to this role Jess was a Senior Manager in the NCA, an investigator at another UK law enforcement agency, and a consultant in the private sector.
Daniel Tannebaum is a Partner at Oliver Wyman where he leads the Global Anti-Financial Crime Practice. He has advised institutions on AML and Sanctions matters in over 30 countries across the Americas, EIMEA and APAC. He’s led the design of target operating models, program governance frameworks, policies and procedures, and regulatory response strategies for dozens of global financial institutions. Dan also served as a Federal Reserve-appointed Independent Consultant over a large global enforcement action.
Formerly he served as the Chief Compliance Officer for the Americas at a global money services business, and at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Office of Foreign Assets Control, U.S. Department of the Treasury. Dan is a highly sought-after speaker on financial crimes issues and is often quoted in print publications and is a regular guest on business television and radio. He is also a Senior Fellow with the Atlantic Council and was personally sanctioned by the Russian Federation in November 2022.
Tom has represented Tonbridge, Edenbridge, and Malling since 2015, working on better transport, rural communities and supporting the fantastic schools and businesses in our community.
After a career in journalism, the Foreign Office, and the British Army, serving on operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, he was elected to Parliament and elected as Chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee in 2017. Focusing on Russian corruption and China’s attempts to threaten Britain’s economy and democracy. He published reports that exposed the challenges we face and how to make the UK safer and more prosperous.
Tom founded the China Research Group (CRG) and led the debate on re-evaluating our relationship with Beijing.
In 2022, Tom was asked to serve in Cabinet as Security Minister and has been focused on promoting Britain’s national security from the Home Office. He has worked on combating child sexual exploitation online, fighting fraud, hostile states, organised crime, and terrorism.
Andy Verity is the award-winning Economics Correspondent for BBC News, covering finance and business on BBC Radio and TV as well as reporting for Panorama, BBC Newsnight and BBC Radio 4’s investigative strand, File on Four. A Presenter of early morning business and financial news on BBC Radio 4 and Radio Five Live, Andy can be heard on the Today programme, Radio Four’s Six O’clock News and the BBC News TV channel reporting on the worst inflation in 40 years, recessionary pressures and the tightest jobs market since the 1960s.
Joining the BBC from The Independent, Andy worked first as Personal Finance Correspondent where he won awards including Personal Finance Journalist of the year and Personal Finance Broadcaster of the year. He then moved into presenting business and financial news on BBC Radio 5 Live, where for 8 years he hosted the BBC’s daily financial radio programme and popular podcast Wake up to Money. Before the credit crunch struck in 2007 he proposed a TV series warning of the risks of an imminent crash in the housing market which became BBC2’s The Truth About Property. Attracting an unusually large audience; it was repeat-commissioned both before and after the crisis of 2008.
After a spell at Newsnight he was appointed as the BBC’s Economics Correspondent in 2014, where he’s covered the economic effects of Brexit, the pandemic and now the post-pandemic inflation aggravated by the Ukraine War. For Panorama he’s presented high-impact investigative stories including a film which revealed the Bank of England’s role in the Libor interest rate rigging scandal. That was later followed up with a 2022 BBC Radio 4 investigative podcast series, The Lowball Tapes, shortlisted for three awards, which exposed evidence of an establishment cover-up of a huge fraud during the financial crisis and questioned the safety of convictions of traders prosecuted and jailed for interest rate ‘rigging’.
In June 2023 Andy published a book on the scandal, Rigged, revealing evidence of the role of central banks in manipulating interest rates on a much greater scale than the jailed traders, which was serialised in The Times and followed up extensively in the wider media. Soon after publication, the Criminal Cases Review Commission announced it was sending a key case back to the Court of Appeal, which may reverse convictions.
In a 2018 documentary exposing money laundering in London by a Ukrainian gangster, Andy made headlines when one of the gangster’s thugs kicked him in the groin. In a more recent film, Following the Drug Money, Andy exposed how global consultants EY covered up evidence of smuggling by an organised crime gang that was laundering the proceeds of sales of illegal drugs in the UK via the gold markets of Dubai.
A well-known figure in the business world, Andy is a highly accomplished Moderator and Event Host for conferences and events drawing on his business, economic and financial expertise.
Kathryn is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Financial Crime and Security at RUSI. She leads the Financial Crime Policy Programme which tracks the implementation and evolution of anti-financial crime policy both in the UK and globally. Her work focuses on anti-money laundering regulation and supervision, the policy response to fraud, corporate criminal liability and the role of new technologies. In 2022, she served as Specialist Advisor to the House of Lords Committee on Digital Fraud.
Prior to joining RUSI, Kathryn spent 15 years at PwC, where she worked across the regulated sector, advising institutions on how best to manage their financial crime risks and meet their regulatory obligations. She also has experience of leading complex investigations into allegations of fraud, money laundering and corruption in the UK and overseas.
She has an MA (Hons) in Classics from the University of Cambridge and a LLM in Banking and Finance Law from the University of London. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) and a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE).
As one of the world’s leading journalists covering organised crime and tech, Geoff White has spent decades investigating the shadowy forces of fraudsters, hackers and money launderers. His work’s been featured by BBC News, Audible, Sky News, The Sunday Times and many more.
His latest book, Rinsed, reveals technology’s impact on the world of money laundering. It springs from his work on the hit podcast and book The Lazarus Heist, which explored North Korea’s computer hacking campaign.
He has given more than 300 keynote talks for some of the biggest global brands, including Microsoft, HSBC, Sky, Mastercard and Atos.
Elad Wieder is the Head of the International Department at the Israel Money Laundering and Terror Financing Prohibition Authority (IMPA), which is the Israeli Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), and serves as the Head of the Israeli Delegation to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). In his role, Elad leads a team of liaison officers, policy, and operational analysts, attending to financial intelligence analysis, information exchange and other forms of operational cooperation with other FIUs. Additionally, Elad leads the work of the Israeli delegations to the FATF and to Moneyval, and coordinates IMPA’s delegation to the Egmont Group of FIUs.
At The FATF Elad is a Co-Chair of the Policy Development Group (PDG); beforehand he co-led the policy project that prepared the recent reform of the global Asset Recovery regime, actively contributed to the work of the Virtual Assets Contact Group, and otherwise participated in all the FATF working groups. At the Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units, Elad served as a Vice-Chair of the Information Exchange Working Group (IEWG) from 2018 to 2022 and led an IT-oriented project aimed at standardising and structuring information exchange between FIUs. Prior to joining IMPA, Elad was a partner at Herzog Fox & Neeman (“Herzog”), a prominent Israeli law firm; in his practice, Elad gained extensive experience in a wide range of aspects within the financial industry, with particular emphasis on technology, including virtual assets, online platforms, digital payment solutions and other financial services. While working at Herzog, Elad has spent time on secondments at Allen & Overy in London and at Barclays in Tel Aviv.
Elad holds LL.B. and B.A. in economics from the University of Haifa, and LL.M. in economic analysis of law from the European Masters in Law and Economics (EMLE) Erasmus program, where he studied at the universities of Hamburg, Bologna and Aix-En-Provence. During his studies Elad served as the Coordinator of the Haifa Center of Law & Technology and as the Project Lead of Creative Commons Israel.
The Honorable Juan Zarate is the global co-managing partner and chief strategy officer for the global consulting firm, K2 Integrity. He is also the co-founder and Chair of the Board of Consilient, an innovative fintech. Mr Zarate is a Trustee, board member, and Audit Committee Chairfor Northwestern Mutual. He serves on the board of the National Endowment for Democracy and as treasurer; the board of Guardian Space Technology Solutions; and since 2014, Mr Zarate has served as an independent adviser to Coinbase, the largest virtual asset service provider in the United States. He is the chairman and co-founder of the Center on Economic and Financial Power (CEFP) at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and is a Class of 1971 Senior Fellow at West Point’s Combating Terrorism Center.
He is currently an advisor to the National Security Institute, the Harvard National Security Journal, FDD’s Center on Cyber & Technology Innovation, and is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He was a visiting lecturer on law at the Harvard Law School for eight years and is a published author, including his books Treasury’s War (2013) and Forging Democracy (1994). Mr Zarate was appointed by Pope Francis twice to sit on the board of the Vatican’s Supervisory and Financial Information Authority; sat on the boards of Boston Dynamics and Cambridge Quantum Computing North America; and for over a decade, he served as an independent U.S. advisor on HSBC’s Financial System Vulnerabilities Committee and on HSBC’s Group Risk Committee. For fourteen years, Zarate was a senior national security analyst for CBS News and later NBC News.
Mr Zarate has served on multiple commissions and task forces, including the CSIS Commission on Countering Violent Extremism; CSIS Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security; the Council on Foreign Relation’s Independent Task Force on North Korea; the Center for A New American Security’s Future of U.S. Sanctions Task Force; and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Advisory Council Subcommittee on Countering Violent Extremism. Mr Zarate served as the deputy assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Adviser for combating terrorism from 2005 to 2009, the nation’s fifth 'counterterrorism czar'. In that role, he was responsible for developing and implementing the U.S. counterterrorism strategy as well as policies related to weapons of mass destruction/terrorism, transnational security threats, maritime security, international energy infrastructure protection, hostage-taking, anti-money laundering, kleptocracy, and transnational organized crime.
He was responsible for conceiving and leading major initiatives in the post 9/11 period, including the establishment of the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GICNT). He wasthe first ever Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for terrorist financing and financial crimes. In this role, he led the post-9/11 anti-money laundering and sanctions regime expansion in the United States; helped develop the international standards for AML/CFT and proliferation finance; supervised the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FINCEN), the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), and the Treasury’s Executive Office for Asset Forfeiture (TEOAF); and drove the innovative use of the Treasury’s national security–related powers. Mr Zarate ultimately led the establishment of the Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence (TFI). He has also led some of the largest asset recovery ventures in history, including the return of over $3 billion in Iraqi assets. He was awarded the Treasury Medal. Mr Zarate is a former federal terrorism prosecutor prior to 9/11, serving on the prosecution teams in the East Africa bombings and USS Cole cases, among others.
He is magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College and a cum laude graduate of the Harvard Law School. At Harvard College, he won the John P. Reardon Award, asthe top male student athlete. He was a Rotary Scholar at the Universidad de Salamanca in Spain. In 2002, he was inducted into Mater Dei High’s School’s Ring of Honor.
