Jérôme Beaumont

Jérôme Beaumont has more than 15 years of management experience in the compliance space, especially in the field of Anti-Money Laundering, Counter-Terrorist Financing, Counter Proliferation Financing and Sanctions, at the government & International levels, as well as in Public Private Partnerships.

He has a bachelor’s in political science, a master’s in business administration, is certified as board member (Wharton), in Fintech (Harvard) and in Cyber Security (Harvard) with a long operational experience in cyber security threats and mitigation planning & execution. Mr. Beaumont held several roles and contributed to European Union and United Nations missions before joining the French Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) in 2011. Over the next five years, he processed major operational anti-money laundering cases, covered international information exchange relating to the terrorist attacks in France and was responsible for TRACFIN’s international policies. In that frame, he closely cooperated with European Banks and Supervisory Agencies.

Mr. Beaumont participated in the review of the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) standards, the Egmont Group’s key documents, and was also involved in FATF mutual evaluations and World Bank activities. Involved in AML/CTF publications and a frequent presenter in global financial intelligence fora, Mr. Beaumont has been a regular speaker at the US Congress Parliamentary Intelligence-Security Forum in Washington, DC and also contributed to the Cambridge Symposium on Economic Crime, Wolfsberg Group meetings and ACAMs events.

As Executive Secretary of the Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs), Mr. Beaumont leads a team of strong, passionate professionals committed to supporting Egmont Group activities, its 177 member FIUs across the world, and the global fight against money laundering, terrorist financing, predicate crimes and sanctions’ evasion.