De-funding Terrorism

May 21, 2008, Philadelphia, PA

Jonathan Weinberger

Jonathan R. Weinberger served in 2007-08 as the Senior Counselor for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes at the U.S. Treasury. In this position, Mr. Weinberger served as Treasury´s representative to the Senior Interagency Strategy Team at the National Counterterrorism Center, a policy-making committee comprised of a senior representative from each agency in the Intelligence community. He was installed as Executive Secretary and Associate General Counsel for the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) in April 2008. In his capacity at Treasury, he managed and coordinated legal issues with respect to the Financial Action Task Force, the premier international body that combats money laundering and terrorist financing and served as senior liaison to the National Counterterrorism Center, NSC, and other interagency groups.