Combating the Financing of Terrorism

THE SPEAKERS

	Hans Peter BAUER studied Economics and Business Administration in Switzerland and in the UK. He spent his entire professional career with Swiss Bank Cooperation and, since the merger, with UBS. Among other tasks, Peter acted as Chief Risk Officer for the Retail Bank in Switzerland and the Global Private Bank and as Global Head of Regulatory Relations and Strategy for the UBS Group. Peter is also one of the initiators of the Wolfsberg Group. Today he acts as Senior Advisor to the Wolfsberg Group and the Basel Institute of Governance as well as international organizations and banks.
	Christine BURGENER SCHRANER (tentative), Ambassador, Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Mrs Burgener Schraner, a lawyer by profession, is the Anti-Terrorism Co-ordinator of the Ministry and Deputy Director of the Directorate for Public International Law.
	René BRÜLHART, Director of the Liechtenstein Financial Intelligence Unit, has a degree in Law from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. After a career in international Law firms in Brussels and Zurich, he became Deputy Director of the Liechtenstein FIU in 2001. In 2004, he became Director of this authority. As a Chairman of the Operational Working Group of the Egmont Group, he is also a member of the Egmont Group Committee. He is the coordinator of the task force on countering Terrorist Financing in Liechtenstein and a member of the country’s delegation to Moneyval.
	Yara ESQUIVEL worked as a Public Prosecutor in Costa Rica, where she was in charge of the investigation and trial of several high profile corruption cases involving high-ranking government officials and private entrepreneurs. In October 2006, she took a position as a regional investigator in the Office of Internal Oversight Services of the United Nations and moved to Kenya, where she was posted for one year to investigate fraud, corruption and malfeasance within the organization, specifically in the various Peace Keeping Missions operating in the African continent.
	Dr. Marco GERCKE, Attorney-at-Law, has a PhD in Criminal Law from the University of Cologne, Germany. He is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Cologne and a Visiting Lecturer for International Criminal Law at the University of Macau, China. Since 2001, he has published a large number of publications in the areas of Cybercrime, including on the Council of Europe Cybercrime Convention; International Criminal Law; and Media Law. He is a regular organiser and speaker at national and international training events. Marco is a Member of the Financial Integrity Network.
	Radha IVORY is a lawyer from Australia. After graduating with dual degrees in International Relations, German and Law from the University of Queensland, she joined the top-tier Australia commercial law firm Freehills. In August 2006, she relocated to Geneva, Switzerland, where she advised on preventing and responding to cases of abuse and exploitation by humanitarian workers at the International Council of Voluntary Agencies and the Humanitarian Accountability Partnership. In February 2008, she moved to Basel to take up a PhD position at the International Centre on Asset Recovery. Her research is concerned with individual rights in asset recovery cases under international law.
	Tom LASICH, a graduate of the University of Santa Clara with a degree in Finance, began his career as a special agent with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Criminal Investigation, and worked 20 years as a special agent and manager. In 1991 he became Assistant Chief of the Financial Fraud Institute. Two years later he moved to Washington DC as a special agent with the Office of the Inspector General, Resolution Trust Corporation. In 1996 Tom returned to the IRS, where he conducted money laundering and financial investigations of organized crime members, major corporations, narcotics syndicates and political figures. Tom now works for the International Centre for Asset Recovery in Basel, Switzerland.
	Dr. Michael LEVI has degrees from Oxford, Cambridge, Southampton and Cardiff Universities and has been Professor of Criminology at Cardiff University since 1991. He has been conducting international research on the patterns and control of white-collar and organised crime, corruption and money laundering since 1972, and has published widely on these subjects as well as editing major journals. In 2007, he was awarded a 3-year Professorial Fellowship by the UK Economic and Social Research Council to develop research on transnational economic and organised crime and on responses to it..
	Mark PIETH, Currently, Professor of Criminal Law, Basel University; Chairman, Working Group on Bribery in International Business Transactions, OECD; Chairman of the Board, Basel Institute on Governance; Member: Swiss Federal Gaming Commission; Independent Inquiry Committee into the Iraq Oil-for-Food Programme. Author on economic and organized crime, money laundering, corruption, sentencing and criminal procedure. Formerly, Member, Financial Action Task Force and Head, Section of Economic and Organized Crime, Swiss Ministry of Justice and Police; Member, Chemical Action Task Force on Precursor Chemicals; Chairman, UN Intergovernmental Expert Group Commission to determine extent of illicit trafficking in drugs.
	Jacques RAYROUD has been working as magistrate for more than twelve years. The first nine years, he worked as examining magistrate in the region of Fribourg. Since the 1st of July 2003, he is Federal Attorney in the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland, in Bern. Now specialising in passive mutual legal assistance, he is dealing with international cases especially in the fields of money laundering, organised crime, financing of terrorism or corruption. From 1990 to 1992, he did his articles and passed his final exams of barrister in 1994. In the mean time, he worked as assistant lecturer at the University of Fribourg, in the civil code section. He received his law degree at this University in 1990.
	Yehuda SHAFFER is the director and founder since January 2002 of IMPA - (Israel Money-laundering and Terror Financing Prohibition Authority) the Israeli FIU (Financial Intelligence Unit) in the Ministry of Justice. Before that Mr. Shaffer served for 10 years (1992-2002) as a Senior Deputy to the State Attorney in the High Court of Justice Department, in the state attorneys office in the Ministry of Justice. My Shaffer received his L.L.B. (1987) and L.L.M. (1989) from the faculty of law at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and a Masters in Public administration MPA - at the Kennedy school of government at Harvard University (2000)
	Dr. Guido STEINBERG is a research associate specializing in Middle East and Gulf Affairs at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, SWP) in Berlin. An Islamicist and Middle East Historian by training, he has worked as a research coordinator at the Free University Berlin (2001) and as an advisor on international terrorism in the German Federal Chancellery (2002-2005). He is a frequent expert witness in German terrorism trials and has published widely on the Middle East, Saudi Arabian and Iraqi History and Politics, the Wahhabiya, Islamism and Terrorism.
	Kilian STRAUSS is an expert on Eastern Europe and economies in transition. He studied economics, international relations and law in France, Germany and Russia and is an alumnus of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris. He is currently working as a Senior Programme Officer at the Office of the Co-ordinator of Economic and Environmental Activities of the OSCE in Vienna, where he is in charge of project development and management with a particular focus on activities aimed at combating corruption, money-laundering and terrorist financing. Previous assignments include positions in consultancy, economic analysis and project management at institutions such as the European Commission, the EastWest Institute and ING Bank.
	Bob UPTON joined Lloyds Private Banking 34 years ago specialising is personal taxation and Asset Management. He has subsequently undertaken a number of specialist roles including that of Head of Technical Training for the Bank’s Life Insurance and Investment Division. Bob has been in a compliance role for the past 17 years being appointed Head of Financial Crime Prevention and Monitoring in September 2001. He is now the Deputy Group Money Laundering Reporting Officer responsible for setting policy and standards as well as assessing money laundering threats to the Group and the vulnerability of their products and services to these threats. His team also provides a focal point for advice and guidance on compliance with AML legislation and regulation.
	John SOLOMON is global head of terrorism research for World-Check. The Terrorism and Insurgency Research Unit (TIRU) that he heads at World-Check is made up of a multinational team of terrorism specialists engaged in the OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) discipline. Prior to joining World-Check, Solomon served as a congressional aide on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, and profiled terrorist groups for the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence in St Andrews, Scotland. A beneficiary of the US National Security Education Program, Solomon is proficient in Arabic and has lived in the Middle East. He holds degrees from the University of St Andrews, the American University in Cairo and the University of Oklahoma.
	Henriette HAAS is a senior lecturer in Forensic Psychology at University of Zürich She holds a Doctorate in clinical and consulting psychology at University of Zürich and a Licence (MSc) in clinical and consulting psychology, psychopathology, and mathematics, University of Zürich. She has been a Scientific consultant and Head of the Division "Analysis" at the Service for Analysis and Prevention (SAP) with the Federal Office of Police (fedpol) and a Professor of criminology and forensic psychology at the School of Criminal Justice (ESC) at University of Lausanne.
	Leo KELLER joined NetBreeze in July 2002 as a co-CEO and successfully guided the development of the SINDBAD platform to a product supporting business and decision making processes. Prior to his engagement with NetBreeze, Leo Keller was a successful consultant for strategy and organisation development. Since 1999 he was the co-leader of A.T. Kearney (Switzerland) and successfully built up the Swiss office. From 1996 he was a member of Arthur D. Little’s executive team, responsible for “Learning Organisation” and “Environmental Management”. Leo Keller got his Master’s Degree in Natural Science and Chemistry at the ETH Zürich.
	Dr. Elisabeth DIAW is a lawyer and sociologist, and a lecturer on AML/CFT at the University of Dakar, Senegal. After a long career at the Central Bank of the West African Countries, where she was also responsible for AML/CFT, she became Deputy General Director of GIABA, the Intergovernmental Action Group against Money-Laundering in Africa. She drafted the West African AML and CFT Model Laws. She regularly attends the FATF plenary meetings and other international organizations, such as the Egmont Group, where GIABA has observer status.
	Scott VESEL is currently Human Rights and Anti-Terrorism Project Officer at the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights in Warsaw. He previously worked as deputy director of the programme on security and good governance at the EastWest Institute in Prague and as a lawyer in the international arbitration practice group at Shearman & Sterling in Paris. He holds advanced degrees in law and political science from Yale University and in international relations from Princeton University. He has authored or edited several publications in the fields of security sector reform, international relations, and international law.