Dato’ Zamani Abdul Ghani is currently Deputy Governor of Bank Negara Malaysia and is a member of its board of directors. He oversees various departments in the Bank responsible for the supervision of financial institutions, the payment systems, corporate and related services, as well as units combating abuses in the financial system. He started his career at the Bank early in 1971 and has served in a number of different capacities and departments in the Bank. He also served as an Executive Director in the International Monetary Fund between 1996 and 1998 as well as served as the Director General of the Labuan Offshore Financial Services Authority between 1998 and 1999.

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Rohan is the Senior Money Laundering Risk Executive for Asia, for Bank of America Merrill Lynch. He covers Investment Banking, Global Markets, Wealth Management, Corporate Banking, and Cash Management across twelve countries. He is the author of the PwC Global publication 'Money Laundering - Controls and Prevention'. He has been an Executive-in-Residence at the Saw Centre for Financial Studies, NUS Business School. He is on the International Board of Advisors, and is a Fellow of the International Compliance Association (ICA), London - the MAS designated Lead Training Provider for Compliance in Singapore. He holds a Doctorate in AML from Middlesex University, UK.

Wan Mohd Nazri is currently the Director of Financial Intelligence Unit, Bank Negara Malaysia. He started his career at the Bank in 1993 and has served in a number of different capacities in Legal Department, Bank Regulation Department and Islamic Banking and Takaful Department before appointed to his current position in 2008.

Jeremy has over 30 years of experience in the fields of fraud and money laundering prevention in Hong Kong. He currently is working with clients to develop cost-effective risk-based AML solutions. Prior to this, he was the Consultant (Anti Money Laundering) to the Hong Kong Monetary Authority for two years in charge of the specialist AML on-site examination teams, carrying out AML examinations on authorised institutions in Hong Kong.

Bruce has extensive experience in all areas of IT in the financial services industry. Prior to joining Norkom, Bruce was Managing Director with Pegasystems in APAC for 9 years, COO for Temenos in Singapore then globally in Geneva Switzerland for 2 years, Managing Director for Fiserv in Singapore for 4 years and Managing Director of BIS Banking Systems (Misys) in Hong Kong for 4 years.

Jay Jhaveri is the head of World-Check, Asia. He is frequently invited to speak and present papers at conferences and thought leadership seminars on issues relating to Anti-Money Laundering (AML), the Countering of Financing of Terrorism (CFT), Know Your Client (KYC), Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) and Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs). He has published numerous papers on the subjects and his views are frequently sought by the press and academicians. Prior to joining World-Check, Jay was a professional banker in the wealth management industry for more than 12 years. He has worked with leading European Banks in India, the UK and Singapore.  He holds degrees in MBA in Finance, MIS and BBA in Economics and Management.

He has served as a Police Officer for the past 32 years before joining the Financial Intelligence Unit, Central Bank of Malaysia. During his service with the police force he has served various division including Logistics, Training and Special Branch. He was also the OCPD officer in-charge to Police District.

Kim Manchester brings his extensive background in international banking to the global financial services industry. While based in both Hong Kong and Singapore, Kim held senior regional and global positions in corporate banking, institutional banking and capital markets for one of the world’s largest emerging markets financial institutions.

As former Program Director, she was the spokesperson and led the World Bank work on all aspects of building effective anti-money laundering regimes and combating the financing of terrorism. She was previously the Assistant Governor of Bank Negara Malaysia

David has been with Citibank for over sixteen years and has over thirteen years of compliance experience. He was responsible for all Citibank Hong Kong Corporate Banking compliance activities from 1995, this was followed by three years working in the Regional Compliance Office in Asia, as the Head of the Citibank Asia Control Room and the Regional Compliance Training Director. Currently David is the Director of Compliance and Control for Citibank Hong Kong’s Global Consumer Group and also Hong Kong’s Country Compliance Officer. David is active in providing anti-money laundering training to Citi staff in Asia and in external seminars, and has also given presentations to regulators, Central Banks and law enforcement from various countries on this subject. David holds a Master of Business Administration degree and is a Chartered Accountant from Canada.

Atty. Richard David C. Funk II is a Career Executive Officer (CEO) and has been connected with the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) and its Secretariat from the time of its creation on October 17, 2001, the date on which the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2001 (AMLA), as amended, took effect.  Prior to joining the AMLC, he was the head of the Claims Adjudication Division of the Insurance Commission, one of three agencies comprising the AMLC:  the other two agencies are the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas and the Securities and Exchange Commission.

He has extensive experience and training in the field of anti-money laundering and anti-corruption having attended, among others, the Complex Crimes Financial Investigation Course at the International Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA) in Bangkok, Thailand in August 2002 and the Advance Management Course in August 2005 at the International Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA) at Roswell, New Mexico, USA.  He likewise attended the FBI Anti-Corruption Seminar at the FBI Training Facility in Quantico, Virginia, USA and was a presenter at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) sponsored Capacity Building Workshop on Combating Corruption Related to Money Laundering in August of 2007 in Bangkok, Thailand.

Atty. Funk is the current head of the Compliance and Investigation Group of the Anti-Money Laundering Council Secretariat.

Heba Shams is a Senior Financial Sector Specialist at the World Bank. She advises countries on legislative and regulatory drafting, awareness raising, and training in the area of combating money laundering and the financing of terrorism. Prior to joining the Financial Market Integrity Unit at the Bank in 2004, she taught International Economic Law and Development Finance Law at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary College- London. She has published on issues of international investment law, corruption and money laundering. Her publications include Legal Globalization: Money Laundering Law and Other Cases (London: BIICL, 2004). She holds a License en Droit (Cairo University), Mater’s Degree in Law (Cairo University), LLM (King’s College, London), and a PhD (Queen Mary College, London). 

David Shannon is the Principal Executive Officer with the Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering (APG) Secretariat, which is based in Sydney. The APG is the FATF-style regional anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) body for the Asia/Pacific. David joined the APG Secretariat in 2002.

Since joining the APG Secretariat, David has been involved in all aspects of the APG’s programme including coordinating the APG's AML/CFT typologies work, leading Mutual Evaluations of APG member countries, managing the APG Technical Assistance and Training programme and representing the APG at FATF Plenary, Working Group and Typologies meetings. Prior to joining the APG Secretariat, David worked for Australia's National Crime Authority (NCA) for eight years.

David holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hon.) from the University of Sydney and is currently completing a Masters of International Law / International Relations at the University of New South Wales.

John Visser is the General Manager, Intelligence at AUSTRAC. He is also an active member of AUSTRAC's Executive Committee, Leadership Group and the Intelligence and Enforcement Committees, as well as a number of operational and advisory committees convened by AUSTRAC's partner agencies.

John joined AUSTRAC in January 1991. John's career with AUSTRAC since that time has been largely devoted to managing the development of AUSTRAC's analysis and intelligence capabilities, working closely with partner agencies and AUSTRAC's information technology branch as the head of AUSTRAC's Monitoring and Analysis section.

John has represented AUSTRAC at an interdepartmental level in a number of key money laundering, law enforcement and intelligence forums and has represented Australia in the same capacity at various forums around the world, including the Financial Action Task Force, Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering and the Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units.

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Andy is a professional consultant with over ten years experience in Forensics, Anti-Money Laundering and Fraud risk mitigation. His previous clients include many global financial institutions and local banks in Western, Central and Eastern Europe, the United States, Australia and South-East Asia.

Karen Van Ness is Senior Manager for Financial Crime and Compliance Solutions product management at Oracle Mantas, part of Oracle Financial Services Software. She has over 20 years of experience in the information technology and financial services industries. She brings substantial expertise in the areas of anti-money laundering, fraud prevention, risk management and compliance, as well as the development, implementation and marketing of high-end software solutions.
Prior to joining Mantas, Ms. Van Ness worked in the financial services industry for 14 years, and was a Vice President at Citigroup and Chevy Chase Bank. Ms. Van Ness holds a B.A. degree from Dartmouth College and an M.S. degree from the Johns Hopkins University. She can be reached at karen.van.ness@oracle.com.

Neil Jensen, prior to his retirement from the Australian Public Service on 16 July 2009, was for the past 7 years, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC), which is Australia’s AML/CTF regulator and Financial Intelligence Unit. Mr Jensen was with AUSTRAC for twenty years having commenced in September 1989. His Public Service career spanned 39 years. He recently led AUSTRAC through a significant change as Australia’s new anti-money laundering and counter terrorism financing (AML/CTF) Regulator. He has held various positions in Egmont Committee and was the Chair from May 2008 to May 2009. Mr Jensen was also Australia’s Head of Delegation to the Asia Pacific Group on money laundering and was a long term member of Australia’s delegation to the FATF. Mr Jensen was awarded the Australian Public Service Medal in 1995 for his contribution to Australia’s anti-money laundering program, by proposing and implementing the reporting to AUSTRAC of all customer based international wire transfers by reporting entities in Australia, leading to AUSTRAC’s global standing as an FIU. Since leaving AUSTRAC, Mr Jensen has commenced a successful consulting business with work in the United Kingdom, Kazakhstan, Malaysia and Australia. He is an Adjunct Research Fellow, in the Department of Business Law and Taxation, at Monash University, in Melbourne. He holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, majoring in legal studies.

He was appointed a Director and the Chief Executive Officer of OCBC Al-Amin Bank Berhad on 24 November 2008. He began his career in the banking industry in 1990 as a management associate in Risk Management Division at Citibank Malaysia Berhad. During his 12 years with Citibank, he focused mainly on corporate banking, corporate finance and risk management. His last position in Citibank was Vice President and Head of Malaysian Business Group. In November 2002, he joined RHB Bank Berhad as General Manager of Chief Credit Officer Division.

Later in June 2004, he joined Bank Muamalat Malaysia Berhad (Malaysia’s second full-fledged Islamic Bank) as the Head of Corporate Banking and was later heading the larger Corporate & Investment Banking Division (“CIB”) following a re-organizational exercise undertaken by the bank. As the Head of CIB Division, his duties and responsibilities cover all the business departments which include investment banking, corporate banking, commercial & SME banking, financial institutions and trade finance. He later assumed the role of a Chief Operating Officer and an Acting Chief Executive Officer in March 2008. Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration, specializing in Accounting and Management Information System (MIS) (Boston University, Boston, Ma. USA).

Mrs. Emiko Todoroki is a senior financial sector specialist in the Financial Market Integrity Unit of the Financial and Private Sector Vice-Presidency of the World Bank. She has been working on the AML/CFT program since 2001 when the Executive Board of the World Bank gave a mandate for the program. Ms. Todoroki advises client governments on, inter alia, national risk assessments, regulation and supervision of remittance service providers, access to finance and AML, among others. She has been also working closely with FATF and FSRBs on various policy and technical assistance projects.

Prior to joining the unit, Ms. Todoroki worked on other financial and private sector development projects. Before joining the World Bank, she worked in a consulting firm, a futures industry association, and a financial newspaper agency. Ms. Todoroki holds a Master’s degree in international finance and economics from the George Washington University, the United States (1998) and studied post-graduate finance and economics in the Maastricht University in the Netherlands (1997).

Dr. Mohamad Akram is currently the Executive Director of International Shari’ah Research Academy for Islamic Finance (ISRA). Prior to joining ISRA he was an Assistant Professor at the Kulliyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences, International Islamic University, Malaysia (IIUM). In the period 2002-2004, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. At present, he is the Member of Bank Negara Malaysia Shari’ah Advisory Council, Member of Shariah Advisory Employees Provident Fund (EPF), Member of HSBC Amanah Global Shari’ah Advisory Board, Member of Yassar Limited (Dubai) Shari’ah Advisory Board, Member of EAB (London) Shari’ah Advisory Board, Chairman of Islamic Advisory Board of HSBC Insurance Singapore, Shari’ah Advisor to ZI Syariah Advisory Malaysia, Member of Shari’ah Advisory Council International Islamic Financial Market (IIFM), Bahrain, Committee member of AAOIFI Shari’ah Scholars, Bahrain and other Boards locally and internationally.

In addition, he is also the Member of the Board of Studies of the Institute of Islamic Banking and Finance, International Islamic University Malaysia. Dr. Akram holds a B.A. Honours degree in Islamic Jurisprudence and Legislation from the University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan and a Ph.D. in Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence (Usul al-Fiqh) from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom. He has presented many papers related to Islamic Banking and Finance and other Fiqh topics at national and International level and has conducted many training sessions particullarly on Islamic Banking and Finance for different sectors since 1999. He is a registered Shariah Advisor for Islamic Securities with the Securities Commission of Malaysia and has acted as Shariah advisor in the issuance of several sukuks. In addition he is also prolific author of academic works specifically in the areas of Islamic Banking and Finance.

Rosalind is a former Deputy Public Prosecutor with the Commercial Affairs Department, Singapore, and a Litigation partner with Drew & Napier. She joined Citibank in 2005, as part of Citi's Global Private Banking (CPB) AML Compliance Team and was responsible for developing and implementing global-wide AML policies and procedures, as well as AML MIS/Reporting for CPB, Since 2007, she has taken a Regional AML Compliance role in Citi, and now covers Private Bank, Consumer and Corporate Banking across Asia Pacific. Rosalind continues to work on AML Policy Development, AML Dashboard Reporting and AML Training. Rosalind holds a Master in Law from Columbia University, New York.

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After being in the legal private practice for 10 years in Singapore, Jonathan Tan joined Western Union in July 2006 and is widely exposed to the AML/CFT work in the APAC region. He is currently responsible for the development and implementation of AML/CFT policies, both within the company and the partners in the APAC region. In addition, he has represented the company in several mutual evaluations by FATF and the World Bank, and has regularly engaged with the regulators in the APAC region in the discussion of AML/CFT policies.

Ms. Casburn worked in the financial sector prior to joining the Metropolitan Police Service. During her 17 years as a Police Officer she has been engaged in criminal investigation and has specialised in financial crime in the last 5 years. This has been in the form of support to major crime investigations, as well as financial crime itself. Ms. Casburn was the operational head of two teams in the Fraud Squad in the City of London Police and is now the operational head of the National Terrorist Financial Investigation Unit (NTFIU) based at New Scotland Yard. The NTFIU supports all terrorist investigations within the UK and abroad where British interests are attacked using financial intelligence and evidence. The NTFIU also undertakes terrorist funding investigations and pursues an active disruption agenda against suspected terrorist groups within the UK. Ms. Casburn is also working on building Public Private Partnerships with industry and is seeking to obtain European Commission funding for capacity building in Europe in regards to Terrorist Financing. Ms. Casburn and her management team in the NTFIU also collaborate with experts from other government departments, such as the Office of Security and Counter Terrorism, to deliver strategically on the terrorist finance threat.

Foo Lee Mei is General Counsel of the Malaysian Securities Commission. She obtained her LLB (1st Class Hons) from University Malaya in 1987. She was admitted to the Malaysian Bar as an Advocate and Solicitor in 1993.

Prior to her employment with the Securities Commission, Foo Lee Mei served as Deputy Public Prosecutor with the Attorney-General's Chambers for 6 years where she handled prosecution of commercial crime cases and appeals at the High Court and Supreme Court.

She joined the Securities Commission as Manager of the Prosecution Department and served as General Manager of the Enforcement Division from 2000-2008 where she was involved in several major investigation and prosecutions launched by the Securities Commission including the successful prosecution of Malaysia's first insider trading case. She was re-gazetted as a Deputy Public Prosecutor by the Attorney General with effect from 25 October 2004 and continues to lead appeals at the High Court, Court of Appeal and the Federal Court for cases initiated by the Securities Commission.

Lee Mei is currently Co-Chair of APG’s (Asia Pacific Group on Money Laundering) Typologies Working Group and drives many of APG’s initiatives in the collection and analysis of case studies on money laundering in the region. Lee Mei is also a trained APG assessor and is one of APG’s resource person in the conduct of assessment on member countries’ compliance with FATF (Financial Action Task Force) 40+9 Recommendations.

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Tracy Wilson is part of HMRC Overseas Crime Liaison Officer Network with specific responsibility for Senior Investigators based in Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, Beijing and UAE. She has been a Criminal Investigator with UK Customs for over twenty-six years during which time she has overseen drugs, commercial fraud and money laundering operations. Until recently she was working in the field of counter proliferation where she managed and conducted investigations into the unlicensed exports of military and dual use goods.

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