Meet the RAFT22 Speakers
Laurent Muschel
Director for Internal Security, DG HOME
European Commission
Laurent Muschel is Director for Internal Security in the Directorate-General for Home Affairs, European Commission. His Directorate deals with police cooperation (including Europol), counterterrorism, prevention of radicalisation, drugs, organised crime as well as cybercrime. He is also the Counterterrorism Coordinator for the European Commission.
From September 2013 to August 2018, he was the Director for Migration and Protection, dealing with the management of the migration crisis, borders and the governance of the Schengen area.
Previously, he has been Deputy Head of Cabinet to Ms. Cecilia Malmström, Commissioner for Home Affairs and before of Mr. Jacques Barrot, Vice-President of the European Commission for Justice, Freedom and Security.
He started his career as policy officer in DG Transport where he dealt with the European aviation market, he then became Assistant to the Director General for Energy and Transport and afterwards Head of Unit for “International energy relations”.
He joined the European Commission in 1994 after studying Political sciences at Sciences-Po Paris, philosophy at the Sorbonne and corporate finance in a French business school (ESCP-Europe). He is married and has three children.
David Lewis
Managing Director, Global Head of AML Advisory Forensic Investigations and Intelligence, Kroll
David was Executive Secretary of the FATF from 2015 to January this year. He is now Managing Director and head of AML Advisory at Kroll, where he helps governments and businesses better manage risk in line with global standards. He was previously head of AML policy at HM Treasury and a senior member of the Serious Organised Crime Agency. Since leaving FATF he’s been voted Financial Crime Fighter of the Year by the Global Coalition to Fight Financial Crime and has received ACAMS public service award. David is a Fellow at RUSI’s Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, a visiting scholar at Cambridge and an honorary lecturer at Cardiff University.
Eero Heinäluoma
Member of the European Parliament
Eero Heinäluoma is a Finnish Member of the European Parliament and a Bureau member of the Group of Socialist and Democrats. He is the Treasurer of the Group, a member of the Economic and Monetary Affairs committee (ECON) and the Budgets committee (BUDG), as well as the Tax subcommittee (FISC). He is a former party leader of the Social Democratic Party of Finland (2002-2008) and acted as the Minister of Finance (2005-2007). He was the Chairman of the Audit Committee of the Parliament (2015-19).
Mr. Heinäluoma is currently involved as a rapporteur in the anti-money laundering and countering the financial terrorism package negotiations. He also works a shadow rapporteur for the Solvency II directive and Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation.
Elżbieta Franków-Jaśkiewicz
Head of International Cooperation Unit
Department of Financial Information of the Polish Ministry of Finance
Elżbieta Franków-Jaśkiewicz is the Head of International Cooperation Unit within the Department of Financial Information of the Polish Ministry of Finance (Polish FIU – The General Inspector of Financial Information).
She has over 28 years of experience within government administration of Poland - The Polish Police, Ministry of Interior and Ministry of Finance. For the past 21 years, she has been focused on anti-money laundering and countering terrorist financing issues working within the Polish Financial Intelligence Unit.
For many years she has been representing Polish FIU in the activities of numerous international AML/CFT fora (the Egmont Group, FATF, MONEYVAL, EAG, UNODC, OECD, OSCE, the Experts Group on Combating Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing, the EU FIU Platform and others) and during numerous trainings organized and provided for FIUs from various regions.
In July 2022 Mrs Elżbieta Franków-Jaśkiewicz was appointed as the Vice Chair of the Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units.
Since 2009, as a representative of Poland, she has actively participated in the work of the MONEYVAL Committee. Her commitment has been recognized by the Committee members through her election as a Member of the MONEYVAL Bureau. In 2019 she was elected Chair of the Committee, a position she already holds for another term.
Jessica Davis
President, Insight Threat Intelligence
Jessica Davis, an international expert on terrorism and illicit financing, is President and Principal Consultant with Insight Threat Intelligence, as well as President of the Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies. Jessica began her career in intelligence analysis with the Canadian Military, then transitioned to a policy role at Global Affairs Canada before becoming a team leader with Canada’s financial intelligence unit, FINTRAC. Her last role in government was as senior strategic analyst at CSIS responsible for threat financing and managing the Indicators of Mobilization to Violence project.
Jessica now works to bring evidence-based solutions to the private and public sectors to counter illicit financing and terrorism. She is in the PhD program at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University and has published extensively. Jessica is most recently the author of Women in Modern Terrorism: From Liberations Wars to Global Terrorism and the Islamic State (2017), and Illicit Money: Terrorist Financing in the 21st Century (forthcoming with Lynne Rienner in 2021). She tweets @jessmarindavis.
Hennie Verbeek-Kusters
Head of the FIU
The Netherlands
Hennie Verbeek-Kusters was appointed Chair of the Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units in July 2020 and served as Chair until July 2022. Mrs. Verbeek-Kusters has long been involved in the Egmont Group and served previously as Chair of the Egmont Group from July 2017-2019 and interim Chair in 2020. Through her engagement in the Egmont Group, Mrs. Verbeek-Kusters aims to enhance the cooperation amongst FIUs as well as with the private sector.
Mrs. Verbeek-Kusters has been the Head of the FIU – the Netherlands since 2008, and in October 2010, Mrs. Verbeek-Kusters became the Head of FIU for the Caribbean part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (Bonaire, St. Eustatius, and Saba). During Mrs. Verbeek-Kuster's time as HoFIU, the FIU – the Netherlands has grown in its capacity to receive and analyze transactions and increase its focus on cooperation with (external) partners in the fight against money laundering and financing of terrorism.
Ilze Znotina
AML/CFT and Anti-Corruption Consultant
llze Znotiņa is a lawyer by profession with nearly 15 years of experience in Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Corruption. From 2018-2022, she was the Head of Latvia’s Financial Intelligence Unit and lead Latvia’s delegation to Moneyval and FATF; under her leadership the country managed to demonstrate establishment of a strong and robust financial crime prevention system.
Prior to joining FIU Latvia, Mrs Znotiņa had a career as a sworn attorney-at-law specialising in dispute resolution. Her main areas of expertise included regulatory issues, insolvency, IP, anti-bribery and anti-money laundering, fraud and white-collar crime.
Mrs Znotina has submitted her doctoral thesis in the Faculty of Law, University of Latvia. She holds a Master degree in International and European Law from Riga Graduate School of Law and a Bachelor degree in Law from the University of Latvia. She is an author of number of publications related to law, fraud and corruption as well as a frequent speaker on these topics.
Since July 2022, she works as an AML/CFT and Anti-Corruption Consultant.
Matthew Redhead
Associate Fellow, RUSI
Matthew Redhead is a researcher and writer on financial crime and national security topics, and an independent risk consultant to the FinTech and RegTech sectors. He is also a regular contributor to Jane’s Intelligence Review on serious organised crime, financial crime, terrorism and intelligence.
He has extensive experience in financial services, having trained as a ‘front office’ banker for HSBC in the 1990s, and worked for seven years in various senior roles in that same bank’s financial crime risk function, leaving as Global Head of Strategic Intelligence in April 2018. He has also served as a government official at the MoD, and on secondment at the Office of Security and Counter-Terrorism (OSCT) at the Home Office. He has considerable experience working in several fields of management consultancy for PwC and Matrix Knowledge Group.
Justyna Gudzowska
Director of Illicit Finance Policy, The Sentry
Justyna Gudzowska has spent over a dozen years combating financial crime. She currently serves as the Director of Illicit Finance Policy at The Sentry, an investigative and policy organization that seeks to disable multinational predatory networks that benefit from violent conflict, repression, and kleptocracy. She devises innovative ways to use financial pressures to create leverage for peace, human rights, and good governance. In this capacity, she frequently liaises with governments around the world; the private sector (in particular global banks); and civil society. Prior to joining The Sentry, Justyna was an Executive Director at Morgan Stanley, leading and overseeing the implementation of sanctions for the bank’s offices across the globe and its more than 60,000 employees.
Justyna had been appointed by United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to advise the Security Council on countering the financing of terrorism, in particular ISIS and Al-Qaida. Before serving at the UN, she was a legal advisor to the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, where she advised on the full spectrum of economic sanctions issues. Earlier in her career, she worked as an associate at the international law firms Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and at Debevoise & Plimpton.
Justyna received her JD from Yale Law School, where she served as Development Editor for the Yale Journal of International Law and was a student director of the Schell Center for International Human Rights. She holds master’s degrees from the University of Cambridge and the London School of Economics, where she was a Marshall Scholar, and a B.A. from Rice University.
Tom Keatinge
Director, Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies RUSI
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.
Tom Keatinge 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.
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.
Marieke de Goede
Prof. Dr. Politics of Security Cultures
University of Amsterdam
Marieke de Goede is Professor of the Politics of Security Cultures at the University of Amsterdam and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities. She has published widely on counter-terrorism and security practices in Europe, with a specific attention to the role of financial data. She held a Consolidator Grant of the European Research Council (ERC) with the theme: FOLLOW: Following the Money from Transaction to Trial (www.projectfollow.org). Together with Maja Dehouck, de Goede analyses the ethical and political aspects of financial datasharing between public and private partners. De Goede is author of Speculative Security: the Politics of Pursuing Terrorist Monies and co-editor of the special issue on ‘The Politics of the List,’ in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, amongst many other publication. De Goede is an Honorary Professor at Durham University (UK).
Maygane Janin
Policy Manager, Tech Against Terrorism
Maygane is Tech Against Terrorism’s Policy Manager, leading on policy support for tech companies and on regulatory analysis. Leading on the Mentorship and Membership Programmes, Maygane works closely with tech platforms on strengthening their counterterrorism policies and enforcement practices, as well as on improving their transparency and accountability. Maygane also specialises in analysis of legal responses to terrorist use of the internet and on online regulation. Maygane holds a BA and an MA in Political Science from the University of Geneva, as well as an MA in Conflict Security and Development from King’s College London. Maygane is a native French speaker.
Xavier Laurent
Deputy Prosecutor, National Counter Terrorist Public Prosecutor’s Office, France
Xavier Laurent is a French specialized prosecutor belonging to the National counter terrorist public prosecutor’s office, created in July 2019 in Paris, with jurisdiction on all terrorist cases in France. He is particularly in charge of the aspects of financing for terrorism, criminal asset seizures and digital investigations. Before joining this unit in 2020, he was already a specialised prosecutor in the field of organised crime, specifically dealing with human trafficking, migrant smuggling and cyber-crime issues, at the regional public prosecutor’s office in Lille. He is also in charge of a university course about cyber-crime since 2020.
Sir Julian King
Senior Advisor, Flint Global
Sir Julian King is a Senior Advisor at Flint Global, Fellow of RUSI and the Oxford Internet Institute. He was the last British European Commissioner, serving as EU Commissioner for the Security Union from 2016-2019, with responsibility for counter terrorism, cyber security, tackling hybrid threats, disinformation, and securing critical digital infrastructure.
He joined the Foreign & Commonwealth Office in 1985. He has held various positions, including: UK Ambassador to France (2016); Director General Economic & Consular (2014); DG of the Northern Ireland Office London and Belfast (2011); UK Ambassador to Ireland (2009); EU Commission Chef de Cabinet to Commissioner for Trade (2008); UK Representative on EU Political and Security Committee, (2004).
Sir Julian is a graduate of Oxford University and the Ecole Nationale d’Administration, Paris.
Andrew Davies
Global Head of Regulatory Affairs, ComplyAdvantage
Andrew Davies is Global Head of Regulatory Affairs at ComplyAdvantage. In this role, he works with ComplyAdvantage customers, prospects and regulators around the world to design and deploy effective risk management solutions to mitigate financial crime risks with particular focus on compliance, money laundering and fraud. He is also responsible for seeking new markets and applications for ComplyAdvantage’s data, screening and monitoring solutions.
Davies joined ComplyAdvantage in 2022. He has worked in the software industry for more than twenty five years supporting many of the world’s largest financial institutions, both private and public. Davies’ experience covers anti-money laundering, risk mitigation of financial crime risk, real-time payments, frontoffice trading, settlement risk, and more.
Davies previously worked for Logica and Nomura, the Japanese bank, in London prior to moving to the US.
Since moving to the United States, he has concentrated on financial crime detection systems and has worked with a variety of institutions to deploy such systems including the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Continuous Linked Settlement Bank, ING, ABN AMRO, Manulife Financial, Guardian Life, Deutsche Bank and the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi among others. Davies studied Pure Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Wales. He is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist and has worked with customers in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Australia, Africa and Asia.
Bethan Johnson
Ernest May Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
Bethan Johnson is an Ernest May Fellow in History and Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. She graduated from the University of Cambridge with a PhD in History and an MPhil in Modern British History. Her research explores how the interlocking threads of identity politics fuel radicalization towards political violence and terrorism. Dr Johnson is currently researching contemporary neo-Nazism, with an emphasis on accelerationist terrorism.She has undertaken work for the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism and the European Commission, received the Terrorism Research Award, and is the commissioning editor of the book series Analyzing Political Violence.
Gabriele Cascone
Head of the Counterterrorism Section
Emerging Security Challenges Division, NATO
Gabriele Cascone spent the first part of his career as an officer in the Carabinieri Corps and then joined the NATO International Staff, where he still works as head of the Counterterrorism section in the Emerging Security Challenges Division. The focus of his career at NATO has been mostly on the Western Balkans and on the security situation in the Middle East and North Africa region.
Philippe de Koster
Advocate-General
Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Supreme Court in Brussels
Philippe de Koster has served as Advocate-General at the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Supreme Court in Brussels since January 2017.
Mr de Koster has been the Director of the Belgian Financial Intelligence Processing Unit CTIF-CFI since March 2016. He had been the Deputy Director of CTIF-CFI since 2003.
He has extensive expertise in law, governance and anti-fraud measures.
Philippe de Koster gained professional experience working as a Deputy Public Prosecutor from 1988 until 1997 and later joined (1995) the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) of the European Commission until 1998. From 20 July 1999 until 15 July 2003, he was Deputy Head of Cabinet of the Minister of Justice, naming just a few of his prominent positions throughout his career.
Gem Conn
Vice President, Content Strategy and Quality for Risk & Compliance
Dow Jones Risk & Compliance
London-based Gem Conn has thirty years of experience in the business information industry. She’s been heavily involved with Dow Jones Risk & Compliance since its inception in 2000, helping it grow into the $225 million business it is today. Gem initially served as Vice President, Risk & Compliance Research, heading the large multilingual team who research, monitor and update the structured data relating to individuals and entities of interest to Dow Jones Risk & Compliance clients to support their sanctions, anti-money laundering and anti-corruption compliance programs. In her current role as Vice President, Content Strategy and Quality for Risk & Compliance, Gem has responsibility for developing additional proprietary content sets, overseeing Dow Jones’s rigorous data quality programs, —including the annual ISAE 3000 audit, upholding research standards and providing support to clients on data matters.
Gem started her career at Reuters in London, becoming head of translations and research teams for European business news. She holds an M.A. in Journalism from the University of Westminster and a B.A. in Modern Languages from Trinity College, Dublin.
Stephen Reimer
Research Fellow, CFCS RUSI
Stephen Reimer is a Research Fellow at RUSI’s Centre for Financial Crime & Security Studies, where he specialises on countering the financing of terrorism and threat finance generally. His recent work has focused on self-activating terrorism finance in Europe, the national security threats posed by illicit finance, and assessing risk of terrorism financing abuse in the not-for-profit sector. He is also interested in corporate transparency and the unintended human rights impacts of the FATF standards.
Stephen previously served as a Junior Policy Adviser at the Permanent Mission of Canada to the UN in New York, where he aided the delegation’s engagement with the UN Security Council, including its work on counterterrorism.
He holds an MSc in Conflict Studies from the London School of Economics, and a BA in Political Science and International Development Studies from McGill University.
Juan Zarate
Global Co-Managing Partner and Chief Strategy Officer
K2 Integrity
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 new fintech.
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 a senior fellow at West Point’s Combating Terrorism Center. He was a visiting lecturer in 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 sits on the boards of Northwestern Mutual, Guardian Space Technology Solutions, and the director's advisory board for the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC). Since 2014, Mr. Zarate has served as an independent adviser to Coinbase, the largest virtual asset service provider in the United States. Mr. Zarate sat on the board of the Vatican’s Supervisory and Financial Information Authority for over five years; the Boston Dynamics board for over three years; and for seven years, he was the U.S. advisor on HSBC’s Financial System Vulnerabilities Committee and remains an advisor to HSBC’s Group Risk Committee. Mr. Zarate also sat on the board of Cambridge Quantum Computing North America.
Nidhi Chaphekar
Terrorist attack survivor
Nidhi Chaphekar is the survivor and the victim of the deadliest terrorist attack in Belgium of March 22nd 2016. She is also known to be the face of the attack. She is the author of the book "Unbroken", the Dutch edition of her book is known as "Herboren". She is a Tedx speaker, a change evangelist, a social worker and a motivator. She has been awarded many bravery awards nationally and internationally. She is a shining emblem of hope, faith and never-say-die spirit. She is trying to reach out to millions of people across the globe with her enduring message of life-enhancing positivity and soul-nourishing gratitude.
Mark van Thiel
The Institute for Compliance and Quality Management Ltd
Mark van Thiel is the owner of the Institute for Compliance and Quality Management Ltd in Zurich, Switzerland. He is an advisor on AML/CFT-related topics for governments and international organizations on the one hand side and for financial institutions in Switzerland and the Principality of Liechtenstein on the other hand side.
From June 2019 till March 2020 Mark van Thiel was the program manager a.i. of the EGMONT Centre of FIU Excellence and Leadership (ECOFEL) of the EGMONT Group of Financial Intelligence Units.
Since 2001 he was and is mandated in projects to strengthen AML/CFT measures of countries worldwide with a focus on Financial Intelligence Units.
Mark van Thiel was the first deputy Director of the Money Laundering Reporting Office Switzerland (MROS) during its inception phase and the first three years of operation.
He joined the AML/CFT-community as a compliance officer at the Wealth Management Bank in Zurich, Switzerland in 1995.
In 1995 he completed is studies with a BA in Economics at the University of Applied Sciences in Lucerne, Switzerland.
Sue Eckert
Member of the United Nations Monitoring Team
Sue Eckert is an expert on the UN Monitoring Team overseeing the al Qaida/ISIL and the Taliban sanctions. She has spent her career focusing on the use of economic policy instruments to promote international security, having previously served as Assistant Secretary for Export Administration, a Congressional staff member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and an academic at Yale and Brown Universities as well as numerous think tanks.
Publications include Countering the Financing of Terrorism, Targeted Sanctions: The Impact and Effectiveness of United Nations Action, and most recently reports on the unintended consequences of these policy tools. She holds a MA from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and has consulted with the World Bank, UN, Member States and others on CFT and illicit finance.
Noemie Chevassu
Law Enforcement Outreach and Investigation Manager (LEOI)
Western Union Financial Intelligence Unit
Noemie Chevassu is covering Western Europe (France, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg and Monaco) as LEOI for Western Union Financial Intelligence Unit for one year and a half.
Former Police Captain from the French National Police where she has served during 12 years, mainly in investigative positions but also in European and international cooperation, she has put her expertise as former investigator to the service of a strong public-private partnership.
Her new role consists, amongst other, in assisting Law Enforcement complex requests addressed to Western Union. With a focus on accountability, excellence and execution, the mission of the Western Union Financial Intelligence Unit is to ensure global financial crime risk is identified, mitigated, and converted into high quality actionable intelligence to support law enforcement and other supervisory authorities while helping protect Western Union, its Agent Network, and customers.
Noemie is strongly pushing for a virtuous circle of cooperation that is profitable to all the actors taking part to the fight against terrorism, and committing daily to this mission.
Marcus Pleyer
Deputy Director General
Federal Ministry of Finance, Germany
Marcus Pleyer served as the first 2-year President of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) from 1 July 2020 till 30 June 2022, after having been FATF Vice-President (July 2019–June 2020) and Head of the German delegation to FATF (2016–July 2019). In his national role, he serves as Deputy Director General in Germany’s Federal Ministry of Finance with responsibilities for policy development and international engagement pertaining Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism & Proliferation Financing (AML/CFT, CPF), Financial Sanctions, Digital Finance including Payment Services and Cyber Security. He sits on the board of governors of the German Development Bank for Agribusiness and of the Foundation for Financing the Disposal of Nuclear Waste and is a member of the Steering Group of the World Economic Forum Digital Currency Governance Consortium in Davos, and the FinCyber Advisory Group of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington D.C.
Pierre-Arnaud Lotton
Policy Officer
The Sanctions Unit DG FISMA
Pierre-Arnaud Lotton currently serves as a policy officer in the Sanctions Unit of the European Commission Directorate General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union (DG FISMA). In this position, he has responsibilities for a number of EU sanctions regimes, including the counter-terrorism ones, and addresses on a daily basis implementation issues and the provision of guidance to economic operators as part of the European Commission's role to support the effective implementation and enforcement of sanctions across the EU. Pierre-Arnaud's expertise on EU sanctions also builds on his earlier position as policy officer in the Sanctions Division of the European External Actions Service (EEAS) over 2016-2020.
Before dealing with sanctions, Pierre-Arnaud specialized in arms and dual-use export controls with relevant responsibilities in French administration agencies, the European Commission and as chair of the EU Council working group on conventional arms exports (COARM) of the EEAS over 2013-2016. He is married with three children.
Gonzalo Saiz Erausquin
Research Analyst CRAAFT
RUSI Europe
Gonzalo Saiz is a Research Analyst for Project CRAAFT and works at the RUSI offices in Brussels. His research focuses on the crime-terror nexus and its impact on terrorism financing in Europe.
Prior to joining RUSI in 2022, Gonzalo worked as a legal advisor to victims of human trafficking for sexual exploitation, as well as a researcher of transnational organised crime in Spain and across Europe, collaborating extensively with non-profit organisations and law enforcement agencies. He holds Bachelor’s Degrees in Law and International Relations from the University of Deusto, and an MSc in Conflict Studies from the London School of Economics, where his dissertation examined combatting Al-Shabaab through the targeting of its illicit sources of financing.
Jacek Baranowski
Senior Analyst and Team Leader
The European Counter Terrorism Centre, EUROPOL
Jacek Baranowski is a Senior Analyst and Team Leader at the European Counter Terrorism Centre embedded in Europol.
Jacek and his team are responsible for supporting counter terrorism financing investigations by building cooperation with units combating terrorism both in and outside Europe, including by delivering analytical trainings. His primary focus is the on-going conflict in Ukraine both from the financial and core international crimes perspective.
Jacek joined Europol in 2014 as analyst on asset recovery and money laundering. He later became a senior analyst and Team Leader within the European Counter Terrorism Centre.
He started his career in 2002 as a law enforcement officer and subsequently worked as an analyst in the Criminal Intelligence Department supporting corruption and economical cases. Jacek is a certified ACAMS expert.
Kinga Redlowska
Programme Manager
Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies
RUSI Europe
Dr Kinga Redlowska is a Programme Manager for the Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies (CFCS). She oversees the Centre’s activities, research coordination, and communications that focus on the EU and its neighborhood. These include Project CRAAFT (Collaboration, Research and Analysis Against Financing of Terrorism) funded by the European Union and Euro SIFMANet (European Sanctions and Illicit Finance Monitoring and Analysis Network) funded by the National Endowment for Democracy.
Prior to joining RUSI, she served as a Programme Director at the Warsaw-based Institute for Eastern Studies, the organizer of the renowned geopolitical conference Economic Forum in Krynica. She has a vast experience in project management and is a certified Project Manager (Prince2 Practitioner). Kinga authored articles on Central Europe, transatlantic relations, and on 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 MA in American Studies and Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of Warsaw.
Janet Ho
Head of Policy for Europe
Chainalysis
Janet Ho is the Chainalysis Head of Policy for Europe, supporting public and private sectors in understanding the latest developments of crypto assets and their interactions with regulatory trends and requirements. Before joining Chainalysis the blockchain data platform, she was a financial and security policy maker in the Hong Kong Government and then the Financial Action Task Force Secretariat, the international standard-setter for money laundering and the financing of terrorism and proliferation.
Her recent work includes negotiating the FATF Standards on Virtual Assets, Virtual Assets Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Red Flag Indicators, and Proliferation Financing Risk Assessment Guidance. She was also responsible for conducting FATF Mutual Evaluations on FATF member countries, FATF Reviews on high-risk and other monitored jurisdictions, and analysis on terrorist financing risk assessments.
Andrew Mackay
Associate Fellow
RUSI
Andrew Mackay is an independent consultant and trainer on anti-money laundering, countering the financing of terrorism and counter proliferation financing. He is a Doctoral Candidate at the United Nations’ University for Peace (UPEACE) researching the impact of Illicit Finance on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). He is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS), a Certified Cryptocurrency Investigator (CCI) and a founding director and co-Chair of the Malta ACAMS Chapter. He has recently worked in the British Virgin Islands (BVI), the Channel Islands and the Balkans, mainly focused on technical assistance for FATF mutual evaluations.
A former Royal Navy intelligence officer, he undertook operational deployments in Bosnia investigating war criminals’ financial support networks, in Iraq investigating WMD sanctions evasion, regime crimes and insurgent and terrorist networks. He also had roles in Afghanistan with the NATO Training Mission and Bahrain for maritime security operations in the Gulf, countering Somali-based piracy, and geopolitical analysis during the Arab Spring. He also served in the NATO Southern Region HQ in Naples, the Ministry of Defence in London and British Embassy in Washington DC.
Following military service, Andrew was Head of Financial Crime Threat Mitigation for HSBC Malta as the country head for financial crime investigations, analytics and intelligence. This involved domestic and transnational financial crime issues ranging from bribery and corruption, fraud, money laundering and sanctions evasion through to terrorist financing. During this time, he was a member of the European Financial Intelligence Public-Private Partnership (EFIPPP).
Andrew has an MA with Distinction in Intelligence and International Security from Kings College London. His dissertation focused on the use of financial intelligence for anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism and he continues to deliver training on structured analytical techniques and critical thinking for financial intelligence (FININT) purposes.