July Monthly Sanctions Update: Special Edition (Live) with US Treasury on Russian Sanctions Evasion and Information Sharing

Justine draws on a diverse global career, working across government, regulatory, private sector, and international organisations. As an expert on sanctions, counterterrorism, and financial crime she has held specialist positions within the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority, HM Treasury, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (Central Asia), the British Bankers’ Association, and UK Finance. In addition, Justine was formerly part of the UK delegation to the Financial Action Task Force, chaired the European Banking Federation’s Sanctions Expert Group, co-chaired the UK Joint Money Laundering Intelligence Taskforce’s counterterrorist financing group and served as an International Monetary Fund advisor to Nigeria. She has acted as an independent Syria sanctions-humanitarian expert to the United Nations, and previously served as a national expert on the financing of weapons of mass destruction (WMD)/counter proliferation financing matters. 
 
In her role within ACAMS, the world’s leading membership organization with a presence in over 180 jurisdictions, Justine oversees the subject-matter-expert division. A regular contributor to media publications covering financial-crime issues, she has addressed UN expert groupings, given evidence to parliamentary hearings, and authored numerous publications. Justine also holds a Ph.D. from the University of St. Andrews and an M.Sc. from the University of Edinburgh.

Himamauli Das is the Acting Director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), a bureau of the U.S. Department of the Treasury. FinCEN’s mission is to safeguard the financial system from illicit use, combat money laundering, and promote national security through the strategic use of financial authorities and the collection, analysis, and dissemination of financial intelligence.

Him previously held positions in the private sector where he advised on cryptocurrency and enforcement and worked on innovative technologies to help financial institutions monitor for illicit finance. He also has vast experience at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, National Security Council, the National Economic Council, and the State Department where he focused on international trade, investment, sanctions, and the development of the domestic and international framework to combat terrorist financing, to include the USA PATRIOT Act.

Him received a J.D. and M.P.P from the University of California at Berkeley; an M.Sc. from the University of Colorado at Boulder in astrophysics, planetary and atmospheric sciences; and, a A.B. in physics from the University of California at Berkeley.

Anna Morris is Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Global Affairs in the Office of Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes, where she is responsible for directing strategies to disrupt the financing of threats to national security and to protect the international financial system from abuse by illicit actors. Ms. Morris’s global portfolio includes the most serious threats to national security, including terrorism, North Korea, Iran, and Russia. Prior to this position, Ms. Morris served as a Director and Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing, and has covered Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Mexico and broad anti-money laundering/combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) issues during her tenure.

Prior to joining Treasury, Ms. Morris spent five years at the U.S. Department of State covering Middle East and U.N. Security Council issues, including as Special Assistant to the Ambassador at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq in 2011-2012 and Acting Chief of the Sanctions Unit at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations in 2008. She joined the State Department as a Presidential Management Fellow in 2004.

Ms. Morris also served as a fellow at Singapore’s S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies focusing on U.S. foreign policy in Asia, specifically U.S.-China relations. Her writing has been published by The American Prospect, Monocle, World Politics Review, and the Economist Intelligence Unit, where she served as a Contributing Editor in Hong Kong and Singapore focusing on Asian economic issues.

Ms. Morris holds a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and a Bachelor of Arts (hons) from the College of the Holy Cross.