Peter worked for seven years at the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), where he was a Senior Sanctions Policy Advisor. He then was a partner in a boutique Myanmar-centric business advisory firm, where he worked to develop business and promote trade relationships in Myanmar, the United States, and throughout Southeast Asia. Most recently, he practiced law with a focus on sanctions compliance, export controls, litigation, and regulatory matters.Peter has assisted companies around the world to understand and navigate U.S. trade restrictions and sanctions, to fulfill international standards for transparency, anti-corruption and anti-money laundering, and labor rights, and to formulate effective corporate social responsibility programs. Peter also has extensive experience with the delisting process for individuals and entities that meet the standards for removal from the list of sanctioned Specially Designated Nationals (SDN List).Peter has advised and briefed Congress on legislation and other sanctions matters, as well as engaged with foreign governments, international organizations, and the United Nations to provide information and technical advice regarding sanctions. He has appeared on CNBC’s Squawk Box and CNN’s World Business Today and is a go-to resource for The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, Reuters, and Associated Press.

Peter is Of Counsel with Ferrari & Associates, P.C., a boutique law firm specializing in OFAC representation and legal defense in the areas of national security and export controls. His practice broadly focuses on economic and trade sanctions compliance, litigation, and regulatory matters.

Peter was a partner in Inle Advisory Group, a boutique Myanmar-centric business advisory firm, where he worked to develop business and promote trade relationships in Myanmar, the United States, and throughout Southeast Asia. Inle Advisory Group provided clients across industries with comprehensive advisory services to ensure successful and responsible enter the Myanmar market to benefit both investors and the people of Myanmar. Peter has focused on Myanmar issues since 2007, and his extensive sanctions and regulatory experience ranges from assisting humanitarian and NGO activities to navigating restrictions and sanctions changes in the country. Inle Advisory Group co-authored the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s June 2016 report, US–Myanmar Commercial Relations: The Next Phase.

At the U.S. Treasury Department, Peter worked with the OFAC Director, the Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence (TFI), and other senior U.S. government officials to develop and implement sanctions policies and establish new regulatory schemes across OFAC programs. He supported all aspects of OFAC’s work to craft new Executive Orders, sanctions regulations, license authorizations, and policy guidance in coordination with the National Security Council, Department of State, and Department of Commerce, and engaged with the Department of Homeland Security and Office of the United States Trade Representative. Peter played a key role in the implementation of U.S. sanctions policies for Libya and Myanmar, as well as President Obama’s changes to ease restrictions on travel and remittances to Cuba.