Sandra Garcia is the Director for National Security Threats and Trends for Strategic Policy in the Office of Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Sandra leads a team that develops policies and strategies to address money laundering, terrorist financing, and proliferation financing threats to the U.S. and international financial system through domestic policy initiatives and strategies, international standard-setting, and public outreach. Sandra has overseen the development of the National Illicit Finance Strategy and accompanying National Risk Assessments for Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Proliferation Financing since 2018.

She is a member of the U.S. delegation to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) since 2014, and the U.S. representative to the Policy Development Group, which oversees revisions to the FATF standards and produces guidance and best practices papers, including the 2019 revisions to Recommendation 15 for virtual assets and virtual asset service providers. She served as a co-chair for the FATF virtual asset contact group (2019-2021), and as drafting group co-chair for the Guidance for a Risk-based Approach for the Legal and Accounting Professions, and Trust and Company Service Providers.

She previously was a senior policy advisor in TFFC, leading or contributing to various U.S. government illicit finance assessments and reports including the 2015 U.S. National Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Risk Assessments, and was part of the core Treasury team for the 2016 FATF Mutual Evaluation of the United States. Sandra began her career at Treasury in the Office of Foreign Assets Control in the Enforcement Division. Prior to joining Treasury, she worked in the private sector as a political and financial analyst. She holds a J.D. from the Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law and a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Georgia. Sandra serves on the Board of Visitors of the University of Georgia School of Public and International Affairs.