Alex
Parets
Alexander Parets is Senior Director and Head of Sanctions and Screening at Capital One Financial Corporation. Prior to this role, he served as Chief of Staff and Counsellor to the Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence and coordinated the implementation of Treasury’s 2021 Sanctions Review which modernized Treasury’s sanctions capabilities and infrastructure. He also served as Treasury’s Sanctions Attaché for South America and the Caribbean, as the Director for Threat Finance and Sanctions at the White House’s National Security Council (NSC), as a senior sanctions policy advisor and senior sanctions investigator at the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), and as a senior manager and political economist at an analytics and risk advisory firm. He earned his master's degree in International Political Economy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his bachelor's degree in Economics and Political Science from Marquette University.