JLSA Presents -- National Security, Finance and Judaism and the Law with former acting Treasury Secretary Adam Szubin
Room F
1111 East 60th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637
Join JLSA in hearing from former Acting Treasury Secretary Adam Szubin. Mr. Szubin served as the Acting Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence at the Treasury Department. In this role, Mr. Szubin led the policy, enforcement, regulatory, and intelligence functions of the Treasury Department aimed at identifying and disrupting the lines of financial support to international terrorist organizations, proliferators of weapons of mass destruction, narcotics traffickers, and other actors posing a threat to our national security or foreign policy. As the lead national security official at the Treasury Department, Mr. Szubin also advised the Treasury Secretary and National Security Council on a wide range of economic and security issues, including select matters before the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). During the transition in administrations in 2017, Mr. Szubin served as the Acting Secretary of the Treasury. Earlier in his tenure at the Treasury, Mr. Szubin served as the Director of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) from 2006–2015 and, earlier, as the Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence. Prior to joining Treasury, Mr. Szubin served as Counsel to the Deputy Attorney General at the Department of Justice and worked as a trial attorney in the Civil Division, serving as a member of the Terrorism Litigation Task Force. From 1999 to 2000, Mr. Szubin clerked for Judge Ronald Gilman on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Currently, Mr. Szubin is of counsel at Sullivan and Cromwell in Washington DC where his practice focuses on financial services and national security, with particular emphasis on economic sanctions, export controls, money laundering and counter-terrorism. Mr. Szubin leverages his extensive experience in U.S. government, particularly with the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), with his insider knowledge of U.S. national security policymaking to guide clients through their most sensitive decisions. He is a Professor from Practice at the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies.