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FACULTY BIOGRAPHIES – Stephen Kroll

Stephen Kroll
International Politics

Phone
202-885-2400

Fax
202-885-2494

E-Mail
kroll@american.edu

Location
McCabe, Room 212

Biography
Before joining the International Politics faculty at SIS, Professor Kroll served for five and a half years as Democratic Special Counsel to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the United States Senate (2001-07), 11 years as Chief Counsel of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network of the Department of the Treasury (1990-2001) and two and a half years as Assistant to the Commissioner of Internal Revenue (1984-86). Kroll has also practiced law and was Associate Professor of Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law of Yeshiva University in New York from 1979-83. In his work for the Senate, Kroll was instrumental in drafting and managing for the Committee majority the International Money Laundering Abatement and Financial Anti-Terrorism Act of 2001, and he was part of the team that drafted the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

Professor Kroll has also drafted or participated in drafting a number of articles and government reports relating to money laundering and financial crime, including "Money Laundering - Definition and Control", A Concept Paper Prepared for the Government of Bulgaria (1993), and Department of the Treasury: National Money Laundering Strategy for 1999, and for 2000.

Education
BA, Harvard University
JD, Harvard University

Publications

• The Financing of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence (1999)
• Money Laundering - Definition and Control, A Concept Paper Prepared for the Government of Bulgaria (1993)
• Department of the Treasury: National Money Laundering Strategy (for 1999 and for 2000)

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