Roundtable: Money Laundering, National Security, and HIgher Education

Session Submission Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

Money laundering is a serious, if rarely recognized, threat to nation-states’ sovereignty and security. This criminal activity undermines political, financial, and economic systems around the globe, while empowering traditional organized criminal groups, terrorists, narcoterrorists, and insurgents. Despite the growing demand for expertise in this field and the increasing severity of the problems caused by money laundering, very few colleges and universities have developed programs to provide education in this field. Money laundering expertise is required by financial institutions, the legal profession, government regulators, law enforcement agencies, and intelligence community agencies, among others. This roundtable will address colleges and universities that have successfully implemented money laundering education; explore other educational institutions’ opportunities to provide this expertise; and explain, from a strategic perspective, why such expertise is needed to effectively protect national interests and national security in jurisdictions where money laundering occurs.

Sub Unit

• Area XIII: Roundtable Sessions

Individual Presentations

• Money Laundering & National Security: The Financial Crime that Empowers Organized Criminal Groups, Undermines Economies, Erodes Financial Systems, and Debilitates Political Systems - Lesley Rockwell, University of Texas at El Paso

Chair

• Lesley Rockwell, University of Texas at El Paso

Discussants

• Seokhee Yoon, Citi

• Suzanne Lynch, Utica College

• Nicole Piquero, University of Texas at Dallas

• Casey Evans, American University

• James Dowling, University of Southern California