(Virtual) A Briefing on FATF: Updates from the U.S. Treasury & U.S. Embassy

Scott Rembrandt​

Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) at U.S. Department of the Treasury

Scott Rembrandt is the Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) for Strategic Policy. DAS Rembrandt manages offices that develop and implement domestic and international anti-money laundering/counter-financing of terrorism/countering the financing of proliferation (AML/CFT/CPF) strategic initiatives. Since 2018, DAS Rembrandt has served as the U.S. Head of Delegation to the Financial Action Task Force, the international standard setter for combating money laundering, terrorist financing, and proliferation financing. He assumed this role under the U.S. Presidency of the FATF in 2018 and helped lead efforts at the FATF to deliver on key U.S. FATF presidential initiatives on terrorist financing, virtual assets, proliferation financing, and strengthening the mandate and funding of the FATF.

DAS Rembrandt oversees TFFC's work related to counter-terrorist financing, anti-corruption efforts, beneficial ownership, charitable giving, customer due diligence, cybersecurity, data protection, derisking, human trafficking, information-sharing, innovation, kidnapping for ransom, the national illicit finance strategy and risk assessments, transnational organized crime, proliferation financing, and virtual assets. Prior to joining the Treasury Department, he served as a corporate lawyer in New York and before that was the Director of Research at a Washington-based think tank focused on East Asia. Scott was also a consultant in China and the Business Manager, Chief Country Officer Group – Asia for a global bank.

Scott holds a J.D. from the Catholic University School of Law, a Master of Public Administration from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Michigan.

Erik Woodhouse​

Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Division for Counter Threat Finance and Sanctions in the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs at U.S. Department of State

Erik Woodhouse is the Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Division for Counter Threat Finance and Sanctions in the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs. In that position, he oversees the Office of Sanctions Policy and Implementation and the Office of Threat Finance Countermeasures.

Before rejoining the State Department, Mr. Woodhouse was an attorney advising clients on compliance with U.S. sanctions and anti-money laundering rules and regulations. Previously, he served as Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary for International Affairs at the Treasury Department, where he worked on matters across IA's international economic policy portfolio. Before Treasury, Mr. Woodhouse served as an attorney-adviser with the Office of the Legal Adviser at the State Department, first covering human rights and refugee affairs, and then treaty affairs. Earlier in his career, he was an associate in the project finance and litigation practices at a global law firm, a clerk for a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and a researcher at the Program on Energy & Sustainable Development at Stanford University.

Mr. Woodhouse received his B.A. from Emory University and J.D. from Stanford Law School.

Jeffrey Baker​

Treasury Representative to Southeast Asia at U.S. Embassy Singapore

Jeffrey Baker is a 21-year U.S. Treasury Department veteran currently serving as the Treasury Representative to Southeast Asia, based in Singapore. Before his assignment in Singapore, he served as the Director of the Office of Investment, Energy and Infrastructure at the U.S. Treasury Department in Washington, DC. His responsibilities included policy development and oversight with respect to the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) and representing the United States at the G20 Infrastructure Working Group, the G20-OECD Task Force on Long-term Investment and the Strategic Council of the Global Infrastructure Hub. Prior to that, Jeffrey served for four years as the Senior Advisor to the U.S. Executive Director at the World Bank where he led day-to-day engagement on the development and approval of the World Bank's Environmental and Social Framework. Originally from Roanoke, Virginia, Jeffrey holds bachelor degrees in biology and foreign affairs from the University of Virginia and a graduate degree in Pacific international affairs from the School of Global Policy and Strategy at the University of California, San Diego.