Daniel Glaser
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes
Daniel Glaser is the Treasury Department’s Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes. In
this role he functions as the primary Treasury official for
the development and coordination of international anti-money
laundering and counter-terrorist financing policy. He is a
key official in developing and implementing strategies to disrupt
and dismantle money laundering and terrorist financing networks
worldwide, and has led the Treasury effort to identify and
secure the U.S. financial system from foreign money laundering
and terrorist financing threats.
Mr. Glaser also plays a leading role in the fight against
money laundering and terrorist financing internationally. He
serves as the head of the U.S. delegation to the Financial
Action Task Force (FATF) – the premier international
body in the fight against money laundering. In that role, he
is Co-Chairman of the FATF Working Group on Terrorist Financing,
and has previously served as Chairman of the Americas Review
Group within the FATF Non-Cooperative Countries and Territories
Process. Mr. Glaser has also addressed terrorist financing
issues with an array of other international bodies, including
the G-7, the International Monetary Fund, and World Bank, and
has served as the lead Treasury negotiator of the money laundering
provisions in the U.N. Transnational Organized Crime Convention.
Mr. Glaser previously served as the first Director of Executive
Office of Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes, which was
established in March 2003, and prior to that as the Director
of the Money Laundering and Financial Crimes Section within
Treasury’s Office of Enforcement. Mr. Glaser has also
served as Senior Counsel for Financial Crimes in the Treasury
Department Office of the General Counsel, and prior to that
as an attorney in the U.S. Secret Service Office of the Chief
Counsel.
Mr. Glaser is a graduate of the University of Michigan and
the Columbia University School of Law, and began his career
as an associate in the law firm of Coudert Brothers.
