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About the Contributors
Middle East and North Africa regions for the U.S. Trade and Development Agency; special
assistant to the Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs;
advisor for international economic policy at the National Economic Council; and senior policy
advisor to a Congressman, responsible for financial services, national and homeland security,
and foreign affairs. Before joining BAE Systems, Ms. Lindholm was vice president for policy
at Business Executives for National Security, where she worked with Treasury, the Defense
Department, Drug Enforcement Administration, combatant commands, and the private sector
to develop solutions and share information on potential vulnerabilities in the financial services
sector. Ms. Lindholm holds a B.A. from Tufts University and a J.D. from the University of Miami.
She is a member of the District of Columbia and Florida Bars and cochairs the American
Bar Association’s International Anti–Money Laundering Committee.
David M. Luna is director of Anti-Crime Programs at the Department of State’s Bureau
of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL). Mr. Luna helps coordinate
diplomatic initiatives on national security that disrupt and dismantle transnational criminal
networks. He leads INL teams to combat international organized crime, corruption/kleptocracy,
money laundering, terrorist financing, intellectual property rights and cyber-crimes,
and smuggling/trafficking crimes that impact U.S. homeland security. Over 12 years at the
Department of State, Mr. Luna has chaired numerous U.S. interagency working groups, National
Security Council policy subcommittees, and multilateral policy coordinating groups.
His previous experience includes professional stints with Congress and U.S. executive agencies
responsible for public integrity investigations, as well as legal, legislative, domestic policy,
foreign affairs, national security, and international economic development issues. A graduate
of the U.S. Army War College, he received a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and a
J.D. from The Columbus School of Law at the Catholic University of America.
Moisés Naím is senior associate in the international economics program at the Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace and chief international columnist for El País, Spain’s largest
newspaper. Dr. Naím has written extensively on international economics and global politics,
economic development, and the unintended consequences of globalization including books
such as Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers, and Copycats Are Hijacking the Global Economy
(Doubleday, 2006). He was Venezuela’s minister of Trade and Industry, director of Venezuela’s
Central Bank, and executive director of the World Bank. He has held positions as professor of
business and economics, dean of Venezuela’s main business school, the Instituto de Estudios
Superiores de Administración, and guest lecturer in many U.S. and European universities. Dr.
Naím was editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy magazine. He is the chairman of the board of both
the Group of Fifty (G-50) and Population Action International and a member of the board
of directors of the National Endowment for Democracy and the International Crisis Group.
He holds an M.A. and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Justin Picard is chief scientist at Advanced Track & Trace in France. He has invented disruptive
technologies that protect billions of products and documents from counterfeiting and tampering.
Mr. Picard has written numerous papers and patents on document security, anticounter-
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