Lakshmi
Kumar
Lakshmi Kumar is the former Policy Director of Global Financial Integrity. She oversaw GFI’s policy, advocacy, and regulatory work focusing on illicit financial flows in the U.S. and Africa. Ms. Kumar is invited regularly to provide comment and expertise to governments and international organizations on a host of issues including money laundering through real estate, gold, private investment funds, free trade zones, and policy reforms on beneficial ownership. She has testified before the U.S. Congress on these issues. She is an Adjunct Professor at the Georgetown School of Foreign Service where teaches classes on trade based money laundering and illicit finance. She is a regular speaker and commentator on anti-corruption and money laundering issues at conferences and events around the world. Her comments and work have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Bloomberg, Reuters, BBC among other leading outlets in Latin America and Africa.