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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
Stephen Kroll is Director of the Master's Degree in International Service Program for mid-career professionals. He teaches the Professional Seminars that are the core component of that program along with courses on money laundering and transnational threats.

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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