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About the Contributors
Duncan Deville leads the commercial Anti-Money Laundering/Counter-Terrorist Financing
Compliance Program (AML/CTF) at Booz Allen Hamilton. Previously, he was a senior
financial enforcement advisor with the Treasury Department’s Office of International Affairs
and mentored various units on compliance with AML/CTF standards. He served with the
Department of Defense in Baghdad, leading rule-of-law efforts by training Iraqi judges and
prosecutors until sovereignty was transferred. Prior to this, he was a visiting scholar at Harvard
Law School and consultant to the RAND Corporation on criminal justice matters. Mr.
Deville served as a prosecutor for over a dozen years, including as assistant U.S. attorney with
the Organized Crime Strike Force in Los Angeles. He also held long-term posts in Moscow
and Yerevan, Armenia, for the Justice Department. Mr. Deville is an Adjunct Professor of Law
at Georgetown University, with graduate degrees from Oxford, Harvard, and the University
of Denver, and an undergraduate degree from the University of Louisiana. His articles have
appeared in the law reviews of Columbia University, The George Washington University,
Harvard, Stanford, and University of Chicago, as well as in the Boston Globe, Moscow Times,
The New York Times, Washington Times, and numerous business publications.
Douglas Farah is a senior fellow at the International Assessment and Strategy Center and
adjunct fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. In his 18 years as a foreign
correspondent and investigative reporter for The Washington Post, he covered the drug war in
the Andean region, the Medellín and Cali cartels, the Colombian and Mexican drug mafias,
Russian organized crime in Latin America and the Caribbean, Mexican drug cartels in the
United States, and drug-related banks in the Caribbean. He has also written on the civil wars in
Sierra Leone and Liberia, the network of agents who profited from those conflicts and the diamonds-for-weapons
trade, al Qaeda’s ties to the networks, and the financial network of Osama
bin Laden. Mr. Farah has a B.A. in Latin American studies and B.S. in journalism from the
University of Kansas. As bureau chief in El Salvador for United Press International, he covered
the civil war there and U.S.-backed Contra rebels in Honduras, winning numerous prizes for
investigative work on death squads and drug trafficking. He wrote Blood from Stones: The Secret
Financial Network of Terror (Broadway Books, 2004) and, with Stephen Braun, Merchant of
Death: Money, Guns, Planes and the Man Who Makes War Possible ( J. Wiley and Sons, 2007).
Vanda Felbab-Brown is an expert on international and internal conflict issues and their management,
including counterinsurgency. Her research centers on the interaction between illicit
economies and military conflict. Dr. Felbab-Brown is a fellow in foreign policy and a fellow in
the 21 st Century Defense Initiative at the Brookings Institution where she focuses on South
Asia, Burma, the Andean region, Mexico, and Somalia. She is the author of Shooting Up:
Counterinsurgency and the War on Drugs (Brookings Institution Press, December 2009), as
well as numerous articles and reports on illicit economies, crime, insurgency, and state-building
around the world. She has conducted field work in Afghanistan, Burma, Colombia, Mexico,
Burma, Brazil, India, and Morocco. A regular commentator in U.S. and international media,
Dr. Felbab-Brown frequently testifies before Congress. She received a Ph.D. in political science
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.A. from Harvard University.
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