Jose Victor Lewis, CAMS is Senior Director and Global Head of Government Relations for ACAMS where he leads the government team on building partnerships with regulatory and law enforcement stakeholders around the world.  Prior to this role, Jose served as Director for Strategic Accounts for two years and prior to that as ACAMS’ Head of Africa and the Middle East for 12 years. Jose has been with ACAMS over 16 years and has played an instrumental role in establishing international training partnerships throughout Africa and the Middle East, with universities in the United States and Australia along with some of the world’s leading advisory services firms, financial institutions, and government agencies.

Prior to joining ACAMS, Jose served as Director for Latin America for Tiempos del Mundo, an international weekly publication that circulated throughout select cities in the United States and Latin America and as Regional Manager for Mexico, Central America and the Andean for Latin Finance, a pan-regional publication covering Latin American financial and capital markets.

In addition, Jose has also served as Executive Director of the Colombian American Chamber of Commerce and Director of Trade Research with the World Trade Center Miami. Jose is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in International Relations and Certificate in Latin American Studies from Florida International University. He is originally from Barranquilla, Colombia and currently resides in Miami with his wife Maria Fernanda and three children Nicole, Sebastian and Khalil.