Co-CEO and Co-Founder of McDonell-Nadeau, Executive Director of ACAMS and former Executive Secretary of the FATF. Accomplishments as Executive Secretary of the FATF included the negotiation and approval of the revised FATF Standards, the development of a new, standardized assessment methodology for the global FATF network and the start of a new round of FATF country evaluations. The new focus of evaluation now extends beyond the technical implementation of FATF standards to examine their actual effectiveness - a dramatic change, which has enabled strengths and weaknesses of AML regimes to be clearly determined. Also oversaw the expansion of the FATF Global Network to nine FSRBs comprising over 190 countries. Managed and supervised the FATF’s new fourth round mutual evaluation program and led the first evaluation under the revised Standards (Spain).Prior to the FATF role, was previously Chief of the UN Global Program against Money Laundering and the founder and inaugural Executive Secretary of the Asia-Pacific Group on Money Laundering. Extensive experience as a prosecutor and investigator and led complex multidisciplinary investigation Task Forces into organised crime cases both nationally and internationally.Currently a member of the Advisory Board on the Future of Financial Intelligence Sharing and Chair of the Advisory Board, and Adjunct Professor for the Executive Master of Arts in Financial Integrity degree program at Case Western Reserve University School of Law in Cleveland, USA. A graduate of Monash University, Australia with a BA, LLB and Graduate Diploma in Commercial Law.