TALAL A ALSAYEGH Head of AML Section, Central bank of Kuwait (CBK), drafts rules and regulations to enhance financial and banking units’ capabilities in AML/CFT, analyzes and examines suspicious transaction reports presented to Kuwaiti Financial Intelligence Unit, coordinates with international bodies

MUHAMMAD BAASIRI  Secretary of the Special Investigation Commission for fighting money laundering (FIU of Lebanon); played a role in providing the impetus to re-activate the MENAFATF; previously an IMF resident advisor for the Central Bank of Oman and a CPA with the accounting firms of Deloitte and Arthur Andersen. Muhammad was also the chairman of the Banking Control Commission of Lebanon and a chief executive officer of private companies in the field of banking and finance. He is a lecturer at the American University of Beirut as well.

MARY BHAWNANI Executive Director, Regional Anti-Money Laundering Officer, EMEA, ABN AMRO; previously EMEA & UK Money Laundering Reporting Officer at Bank of America, responsible for setting standards in the EMEA region taking into account the European landscape of regulatory expectations and the Corporate Compliance AML Policy Manual

ROWAN BOSWORTH-DAVIES Director, Money Laundering & Fraud Solutions, SAS EMEA; former Fraud Squad detective at New Scotland Yard, provides education and consulting services in the field of fraud prevention and anti-money laundering awareness programmes. Author of a several anti-white collar crime books

ALBERT CLUCKERS - Head of Inspection Division and Global Compliance Officer for ING Group South West Europe; responsible for the ING AML strategy and development in South West Europe (Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Italy) and manages the ING European AML Investigation Teams. He is also a professor at the University in Brussels and he coordinates for ING the implementation of AML software.

RUPERT de RUIG   Director of Factiva Public Figures & Associates. He is responsible for the global product strategy and sales coordination of compliance software. Prior to this appointment he managed the UK client management teams for 5 years. During this period he was responsible for the formation of the sales teams from Reuters & Dow Jones, the migration of the clients from legacy services to the new Factiva platform and staff development.

ADRIANA van der GOES-JURIC  Money laundering officer with Abbey National Treasury Services, Co-Chairman of the Anti-Money Laundering Professionals' Forum, responsible for implementing new anti-money laundering procedures; former money laundering project screener for the European Commission and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

RAINER GUENTER HOERNING, CAMS  Legal Anti-Money Laundering Compliance Advisor at Citizens Financial Group’s Financial Intelligence Unit. He establishes policies, procedures, and controls and gives advice on the implementation of such policies. He also assists in the development and delivery of corporate training programs. He received his law degree from the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland.

CHARLES A. INTRIAGO Former U.S. prosecutor and congressional committee counsel, founder of Money Laundering Alert; formerly a Miami lawyer, he served as chief counsel to a U.S. House subcommittee that oversaw all federal agencies involved in the money laundering effort, and served as an assistant U.S. attorney in Florida and as special counsel on organized crime to the Governor of Florida

JOSEF MAHR  Head of the Austrian Financial Intelligence/Investigative Unit, since its establishment in 1994; formerly a criminal intelligence investigator with the Economic Police in Vienna. He is also a court appointed expert for economic crimes, an independent management consultant, and adjunct lecturer at the Economic University in Vienna.

PATRIC MARSHALL  Director of Sales, EMEA of World-Check, a product of Global Objectives Ltd, United Kingdom. World-Check provides KYC intelligence to more than 600 banking institutions in 65 countries and some 170 regulatory authorities. Having formerly worked for a Thomson Financial division in business and sales development of OFAC solutions in Europe, Patric joined World-Check in 2001 to spearhead and develop its sales and marketing strategy.

MICHAEL R. MCDONALD, CAMS Retired special agent, U.S. IRS Criminal Investigation; now principal of Michael McDonald & Associates, Miami, a consulting firm specializing in AML and forfeiture issues; a pioneer in AML enforcement

MARTIN OWEN Head of the Financial Crime Policy Unit, UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) since 2001; responsible for the FSA’s rules and policies on anti-money laundering, terrorist finance, and fraud and other financial crime; formerly the deputy chairman of the Building Societies Commission, he has been a regulator since 1985

JAMES R. RICHARDS AML Operations Executive, Bank of America, former director and co-founder of FleetBoston Financial Group’s Financial Intelligence Unit, former Canadian prosecutor and author; one of the most innovative AML officials in the world

SASKIA V. RIETBROEK-GARCES, CAMS Executive Director and co-founder of the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS), an attorney and frequent lecturer on AML subjects, she spearheads worldwide activities of the association

JOEB RIETRAE European Commission, Brussels, Belgium, Organizer of the fight against money laundering and terrorist financing; former senior project manager for the Dutch financial markets policy directorate where he coordinated the anti-money laundering policy of the ministry of finance

BARRY M. SABIN  Chief of the Counterterrorism Section for the Criminal Division of the Justice Department in Washington, D.C. Previously he served in the Southern District of Florida as Chief of the Criminal Division, Chief of the Major Prosecutions and Violent Crimes Section, and Deputy Chief of the Economic Crimes Section. Prior to joining the Department of Justice, Mr. Sabin was a litigation associate at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan’s New York office.

DELPHINE SCHANTZ Money Laundering Adviser for the Global Programme against Money Laundering (GPML) of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), manages the anti-money laundering international database (AMLID) administered by GPML on behalf of eight international organizations

THOMAS SCHELMBAUER  Head of Internal Audit of Anglo Irish Bank Group in Austria (Private Bank), since 2000. Worked in the internal audit department in former Creditanstalt AG, now Bank Austria-Creditanstalt AG. Member of the Senior Management Forum and the Legal Committee of Anglo Irish Bank and has participated in a number of compliance related projects. He has also founded compliance workshops for small and private banks in Austria in cooperation with the Austrian Bankers Association.

THOMAS SPIES Anti-Money Laundering Officer, Deutsche Bank Group, Germany; responsible for global AML efforts; formerly the director of Deutsche Bank’s Y2K and Euro-projects on a world-wide basis as Deputy Head of Senior Management Development

RAMZI TARABISHI Head Office AML Compliance Officer at BLOM Bank sal, the largest bank in Lebanon, since October 2000, established first AML unit in the bank and outlined introductory AML procedures

STEVEN VERHOEVEN  Product manager and business consultant of DATA4s. Steven has been closely involved in the design of the Pinpoint Suite offering vertical solutions for fraud and money laundering detection. He headed high-profile risk intelligence projects for major customers, including VISA, The Clearing House in New York, KBC, Man Financial and Banksys. Combining technical expertise with valuable business experience in the implementation of fraud and money laundering detection solutions, Steven cooperated with the Belgian Bankers Association to provide compliance training, and has provided practical workshops at various occasions.

JAMES C. WILLS  AML Product Manager, Searchspace; former President of Union Bank of California International, New York and Senior Vice President of Union Bank of California. Chairman of USCIB (1997), President of NY Edge Act Association, and US representative to SWIFT on collection message types. Experience in international operations, wires, compliance, anti-money
laundering controls, trade financing and correspondent banking.

OLGA ZUDOVA  Senior Legal Adviser, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Regional Office for Central Asia. She provides Legal Assistance Programme for the CIS and East Asia. Also assists the State-Members of the region with bringing national legislation and implementing practice in compliance with the three international drug control conventions. Formerly an attorney at the Minsk City Collegium of Advocates