John J. Byrne, Esq., CAMS

John is the Executive Chairman of the Advisory Board of AML RightSource. He is also an Adjunct Professor at George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government at the Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TRACC).

Byrne is an internationally known regulatory, policy and legislative expert, and one of the leading AML community voices for over 40 years.  He has experience in a vast array of financial service-related issues, with particular expertise in regulatory oversight, policy, governance, anti-money laundering (AML), privacy and terrorist financing.

John has received numerous awards, including the first Director's Medal for Exceptional Service from the US Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), the American Bankers Association’s (ABA) Distinguished Service Award for his career work in the compliance field, the ACAMS Lifetime achievement Award (2023), as well as several awards for writing columns and blogs and for his podcast, AML Now. The podcast is now “AML Conversations” and combined with “This Week in AML” are closing in on one million downloads since 2018. 

He also serves on Marquette University’s Commercial Banking Board and co-created the AML Partnership Forum in 2022.  He received the “Distinguished Alumnus of the Year Award” for the College of Arts and Sciences from Marquette University in 2024.