Countering DPRK Sanctions Evasion and Proliferation Financing

Gabrielle Green is a fellow ACAMS member, Certified Sanctions Specialist, and Senior Project Lead at CRDF Global leading work on counterproliferation finance, anti-money laundering, and United Nations sanctions compliance. Previously, she worked in research-related positions in the nonproliferation and international security spaces, specifically at the Henry L. Stimson Center and U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security. Her background includes expertise in sanctions compliance, cryptocurrency-related sanctions evasion, nonproliferation, counterproliferation finance and complex proliferation networks, nuclear safeguards, and blockchain-related technologies (particularly related to counterproliferation).

Dr. Togzhan Kassenova is a Washington, DC-based Senior Fellow with the Center for Policy Research (CPR) at University at Albany and a Nonresident Fellow with the Nuclear Policy program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She is an expert on nuclear politics, WMD nonproliferation, and financial crime prevention. Dr. Kassenova is a leading policy expert on proliferation financing that has trained and advised numerous governments and the private sector on the subject. Over the last several years, she has led capacity-building workshops and training on the implementation of proliferation financing and nonproliferation sanctions for governments and the private sector in Southeast Asia, Central Asia, Central Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean on behalf of CPR. Her consultancy work for UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has included developing and delivering courses on proliferation financing for the governments of Indonesia, Thailand, Namibia, Mekong region countries, and MENAFATF. From 2011 to 2015, she served on the UN Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters. Dr. Kassenova holds an MA in Financial Integrity from Case Western Reserve University, a PhD in Politics from the University of Leeds, and is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS). She is the author of Brazil’s Nuclear Kaleidoscope: An Evolving Identity (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2014) and Atomic Steppe: How Kazakhstan Gave Up the Bomb (Stanford University Press, 2022).