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Brian O’Toole

Global Head of Sanctions
Wells Fargo Bank

Brian O’Toole is the Senior Vice President and Director of Sanctions and Screening at Truist Financial Corporation, where he oversees sanctions compliance and list-based screening efforts for the bank and across the institution’s several dozen lines of business. He is also a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Global Business and Economics program and part of the Council’s Economic Sanctions Initiative. Prior to BB&T, Mr. O’Toole was the Senior Advisor to the Director of OFAC, where he served in a chief-of-staff role overseeing and managing all of OFAC’s economic and financial sanctions. He holds a BA from Princeton University and an MA from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and lives and works in Raleigh, NC.