Michael Blake Greenwald

Policy Advisor for Europe
U.S. Treasury Office of Terrorism and Financial Crimes

For more than a decade, Michael has dedicated himself to tackling national security threats and protecting the United States financial system from the abuses of terrorist financing and money laundering. Michael acts on behalf of the United States by working with more than thirty-five countries as the head of the U.S. delegation to the Committee of Experts on the Evaluation of Anti-Money Laundering Measures and the Financing of Terrorism before the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France.

Michael advises senior U.S. Treasury officials on all aspects of illicit finance in connection with terrorism, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, rogue states, and transnational organized crime and cyber crime. In connection with these activities, Michael engages in financial diplomacy on terrorist finance issues; ally mobilization and partnership logistics; the creation of systemic safeguards to strengthen the financial systems resistance to illicit money; and the implementation of financial sanctions.

Michael is Co-Chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Next Generation Board in Washington, D.C. Michael also serves on the board of the Public Private Partnership for Justice Reform in Afghanistan to help the United States’ mission to strengthen the rule of law in Afghanistan. Michael is a fre- quent speaker on international security and financial sanctions issues; past speaking engagements include lectures at the College of William and Mary, BAU International University, and the Boston University School of Law. Michael graduated cum laude from George Washington University, with a B.A. in History where he played four years of Division I squash. Michael holds an M.A. summa cum laude from Boston University; a J.D. from Boston University School of Law; and expects to receive an MBA from Johns Hopkins Carey Business School in 2017.