ACAMS International Anti-Fraud & Technology Task Force

Scott Rembrandt is the Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) for Strategic Policy. DAS Rembrandt manages offices that develop and implement domestic and international anti-money laundering/counter-financing of terrorism/countering the financing of proliferation (AML/CFT/CPF) strategic initiatives. Since 2018, DAS Rembrandt has served as the U.S. Head of Delegation to the Financial Action Task Force, the international standard setter for combating money laundering, terrorist financing, and proliferation financing. He assumed this role under the U.S. Presidency of the FATF in 2018 and helped lead efforts at the FATF to deliver on key U.S. FATF presidential initiatives on terrorist financing, virtual assets, proliferation financing, and strengthening the mandate and funding of the FATF.

DAS Rembrandt oversees TFFC’s work related to counter-terrorist financing, anti-corruption efforts, beneficial ownership, charitable giving, customer due diligence, cybersecurity, data protection, derisking, human trafficking, information-sharing, innovation, kidnapping for ransom, the national illicit finance strategy and risk assessments, transnational organized crime, proliferation financing, and virtual assets. Prior to joining the Treasury Department, he served as a corporate lawyer in New York and before that was the Director of Research at a Washington-based think tank focused on East Asia. Scott was also a consultant in China and the Business Manager, Chief Country Officer Group – Asia for a global bank.

Scott holds a J.D. from the Catholic University School of Law, a Master of Public Administration from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Michigan

Giles Thomson has been Director of the Office for Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) since November 2020. He is also the senior official in HM Treasury responsible for economic crime policy and is the UK’s Head of Delegation to the Financial Action Task Force. He has been working on sanctions and economic crime within HM Treasury since 2016. Prior to that, Giles held a range of positions across HM Treasury and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.

Justine draws on a diverse global career, working across government, regulatory, private sector, and international organisations. As an expert on sanctions, counterterrorism, and financial crime she has held specialist positions within the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority, HM Treasury, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (Central Asia), the British Bankers’ Association, and UK Finance. In addition, Justine was formerly part of the UK delegation to the Financial Action Task Force, chaired the European Banking Federation’s Sanctions Expert Group, co-chaired the UK Joint Money Laundering Intelligence Taskforce’s counterterrorist financing group and served as an International Monetary Fund advisor to Nigeria. She has acted as an independent Syria sanctions-humanitarian expert to the United Nations, and previously served as a national expert on the financing of weapons of mass destruction (WMD)/counter proliferation financing matters. 
 
In her role within ACAMS, the world’s leading membership organization with a presence in over 180 jurisdictions, Justine oversees the subject-matter-expert division. A regular contributor to media publications covering financial-crime issues, she has addressed UN expert groupings, given evidence to parliamentary hearings, and authored numerous publications. Justine also holds a Ph.D. from the University of St. Andrews and an M.Sc. from the University of Edinburgh.

Carole House is a strategic technology executive who has spent her career focusing on leveraging innovative technologies to combat national security threats. She is the founder and CEO of a strategic technology and national security advisory practice, Penumbra Strategies, and serves as a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Association for Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS) and a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council GeoEconomics Center. Carole recently departed the White House National Security Council (NSC) as Special Advisor for Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure. She previously served as the NSC Director for Cybersecurity and Secure Digital Innovation.

Craig Timm is the Senior Director of AML at ACAMS.

Prior to joining ACAMS, Craig had more than 15 years of anti-financial crime experience across the public and private sectors. At the Department of Justice, Craig served as a Deputy Chief in the Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section (now Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section) at headquarters in Washington, DC. In that role, he led a team of prosecutors responsible for enforcing criminal violations of the Bank Secrecy Act, U.S. economic sanctions, and money laundering laws committed by financial institutions and their employees. He led the prosecution of some of the largest financial institutions in the world including HSBC and BNP Paribas. Craig began his career with the Department of Justice as an Assistant United States Attorney in Arizona. At the Department of Justice, he was the recipient of numerous awards including the Attorney General’s Crime Victim’s Restoration Award, the Assistant Attorney General’s Award for Exceptional Service, and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director’s Meritorious Service Award.

At Bank of America, Craig was a Financial Crimes Executive responsible for Strategic Initiatives. These initiatives included participation in the Bank Secrecy Act Advisory Group, 314(b) information sharing initiatives, and the Wolfsberg Group as well as managing the day-to-day liaison with FinCEN, the U.S. Treasury, senior financial crimes policy officials at the OCC and Federal Reserve, key law enforcement agencies, and the U.S. Department of Justice. He also spent several years as the Financial Crimes Executive for the Global Wealth and Investment Management business lines where he served as the designated Anti-Money Laundering Compliance Officer for Merrill Lynch and U.S. Trust.

Craig has an undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan and a law degree from the Northwestern University School of Law.

Joby is a global subject matter expert on cryptoassets, illicit finance and emerging threats. Joby has 18 years of experience and expertise in strategic policy making, critical thinking, threat and risk analysis across the U.K. Government, intelligence and regulatory community. In his previous role Joby was responsible for the management of the Financial Conduct Authority’s Strategic Assessment Team, overseeing a team of analysts tasked with delivering high quality intelligence reporting on money laundering, fraud, market abuse, corruption and other forms of criminality across the regulated sector.

As part of his role Joby has undertaken extensive regulatory and threat analysis of cryptoassets and represented the U.K. on a variety of high-profile engagements. Recently Joby has produced a range of thought leadership papers covering cryptoassets, their regulatory framework, the threat environment and cryptoasset business models. Joby has also had articles published relating to the importance of threat analysis and intelligence sharing.

Riley Green is a project coordinator at ACAMS, where she supports the organization's thought leadership initiatives by coordinating global convenings, managing publication workflows, and collaborating with internal teams and external experts to advance high-level discussions, research, and social impact priorities across the anti-financial crime community. She also supports the production of the annual ACAMS Global AFC Threats Report.

Prior to joining ACAMS, Green worked on the Research and Data Team at The Sentry, developing illicit financial network visualizations, supporting open-source investigations, and analyzing gaps in international sanctions regimes.