Ned Conway

J. Edward 'Ned' Conway is the Executive Secretary of the Wolfsberg Group, an association of 12 global banks which aims to develop frameworks and guidance for the management of financial crime risks. Prior to his appointment at Wolfsberg, Mr. Conway was the Group Head of Financial Crime Compliance Framework and Policies at Banco Santander, based in Madrid. Mr. Conway is on the advisory board of the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS), and he chairs the UN’s Private Sector Dialogue on the disruption of financial crimes related to environmental crime.  He collaborates regularly with the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, training financial intelligence units and related government agencies in the Americas, Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia.  He is the co-editor of the volume Counterterrorism and Threat Finance Analysis During Wartime (2015), and prior to working in the private sector, he was a threat finance analyst for the US Department of Defense. He has a PhD in International Relations from the University of St Andrews (Scotland) and a degree in Psychology from Davidson College (North Carolina, USA).