With 30 years’ experience, Douglas ("Doug") Sloan is a leading expert in forensic financial investigations, including money laundering, terrorist financing, and sanctions (e.g. OFAC) related crimes. Uniquely, most of Doug’s career has been in the global financial services industry, where he has gained tremendous expertise in financial products and services, regulation and law, and the abuse of the financial system by criminal elements. While working with financial companies to improve their risk controls, he also developed collaborative working relationships with law enforcement agencies in analysis and asset tracing related to criminal investigations, thus partnering the public and private sectors. He has also testified as an expert witness in numerous courts. Doug continues to work on behalf of law enforcement agencies and the private sector around the world. He also provides training on financial crimes and sanctions through bilateral engagements as well as international government agencies, for example on behalf of the OECD through their law enforcement academy. Doug holds degrees in international law and finance as well as accounting. He speaks English and German fluently and has intermediate or basic skills in Spanish, Dutch, Hungarian and Polish. He has traveled extensively to work on-site, and has lived and worked for longer durations in the US, Western and Eastern Europe, and Latin America.