DPRK Proliferation Financing and Sanctions Evasion: Challenges and Opportunities

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).

Joe Brazda is a subject matter expert in educating and training domestic and international audiences on topics related to Iran, DPRK, nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, ballistic missiles and delivery systems, strategic trade and export controls. Additionally, Mr. Brazda has conducted trainings identifying and disrupting money laundering and financial crimes. Mr. Brazda served at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS), where he conducted and managed research, lectured to students, visiting fellows, and the public on a variety of topics related to nonproliferation, disarmament and financial crimes. His duties at the Center included extensive project and financial management encompassing all three CNS offices internationally.

Mr. Brazda’s expertise has been recognized in international media with appearances on television, print, radio, and podcasts. Numerous universities around the world have hosted Mr. Brazda as a guest lecturer speaking on nonproliferation topics in Ukraine, Russia, Czech Republic, UK and the U.S. Mr. Brazda has a master’s degree in nonproliferation and terrorism studies from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey  and a bachelor’s degree in political science, international relations and Arabic.

Andrea Viski is the founder and director of the Strategic Trade Research Institute (STRI), a board-governed non-profit organization. Dr. Viski founded the Strategic Trade Review, a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to trade and security, in 2015, and has since served as its Editor-in-Chief. She is also an Adjunct Professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University where she teaches a course on strategic trade controls and co-developed a master’s certificate on strategic trade and compliance. She is also an Affiliated Expert with CRDF Global, directs the Trade & Investment Security Program at the Stimson Center, and is a Non-Resident Senior Scholar at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies.

Andrea previously worked at Project Alpha within the Department of War Studies at King’s College London, at the European Commission, and at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). Andrea holds a Ph.D. and LL.M from the European University Institute, a Master’s degree from Georgetown University’s Institute for Law, Science, and Global Security, and a Bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service.