In addition to my academic position at the Monterey Institute (a graduate school of Middlebury College), I am a certified anti-money laundering specialist (CAMS) and consult with both government and the private financial services industry in the areas of AML compliance and counter-terrorism financing. I am an economist by training, but also have a Masters Degree in Middle East Studies from SAIS (Johns Hopkins). I am also conversant in both Arabic and French. For much of the 1990's, after completing a post-doc at UCBerkeley, I studied money laundering as it applied to white collar crime and drug trafficking. After 9/11, my Middle Eastern expertise and work experience lent itself well ...