JEF 2022 PANEL BIOS
Marie-Christine Dupuis-Danon
International expert on criminal finance
France
Marie-Christine Dupuis-Danon is an International expert on criminal finance, terrorism financing, money laundering, and the roads to a better governance. She has worked as an investment banker advising many governments and notably in Sub-Saharan Africa in their debt restructuring and the management of their public finances from 1993 to 2000, before joining the United Nations Office on Drug and Crime (UNODC) where she was coordinating the organization’s technical assistance programs to UN Member States in the field of anti-money laundering policies from 2000 to 2003. She founded and has led C3COM, a consultancy firm addressing non-military threats and advising governments, international organizations and CEOs on compliance and ethics, since 2004. She is a regular speaker to law enforcement events on money laundering and terrorism financing and the challenges of curbing criminal finance, including in the cyberspace. Additionally, she lectures on behavioral ethics, values-based leadership and corporate governance in business schools and other academic arenas. She’s the author of many books and articles relating to terrorism financing, money laundering, and other major financial crimes. Recently published work includes « Les Guetteurs » – the Watchmen – (March 2018, Editions Odile Jacob) co-written with criminologist Alain Bauer, prefaced by Minister of Foreign Affairs and former Minister of Defense Jean-Yves Le Driant, which highlights the role of French intelligence in fighting islamist terrorism, throughout a series of interviews with former heads of French domestic, foreign and military intelligence services. Subsequently the pair published « Les Protecteurs »
– the Guardians – (October 2019, Editions Odile Jacob) interviewing the Head and former directors of the French Gendarmerie Nationale on the mutations of criminality, terrorism and contemporary threats in France. Other reference books are « Finance criminelle : Comment le crime organisé blanchit l’argent sale »
– Criminal Finance; how organized crime launders its dirty money – (University Press of France, 2004),
« Stupéfiants, prix, profit : l’économie politique des stupéfiants industriels »
– Narcotics, prices, profits; the political economy of industrial drugs – (University Press of France, 1996),
« Pratique de la lutte anti-blanchiment : de l’approche normative à la gestion du risque » – Combatting money laundering; shifting from a regulatory-based towards a risk-based approach -(Revue Banque, 2005, as co-author). She has also signed more than 30 articles on financial governance in Le Monde, Documentation Française, Revue d’Economie Financière, Rapport Moral sur l’Argent dans le Monde, and Revue Défense Nationale among others. A graduate from HEC Business School majored in finance, Marie-Christine Dupuis-Danon additionally holds a MA in Communications and Social Sciences from CELSA-Sorbonne University and is a HEC-certified Executive Coach. She is an Auditor of the Institute of Higher Defense Studies of France (IHEDN-69ème Session Nationale POLDEF), Vice-President of the Scientific Counsel of the French Customs Administration and a member of ANSSI (the French cyber-defense body) Think-Tank, Agora 41.
Roger Cukierman
Board Member
Cukierman & Co. Investment House and Catalyst Fund, France
Roger Cukierman has been for 9 years the President of CRIF, the roof body of all French Jewish institutions. He is also former vice-president of the World Jewish Congress. And he is still vice president of the Alliance Israelite Universelle.
Mr. Roger Cukierman serves as Board Member of Cukierman & Co. Investment House and Catalyst Fund.
He was previously CEO of the Edmond de Rothschild Group where he spent 36 years.
He served also as Chairman of the Israel General Bank, and of several Mutual Funds. His experience includes directorship of many firms or banks such as Club Med, Credit Suisse Asset Management France, and the Association of French Bankers.
Mr. Cukierman holds a doctorate degree in economics from the Paris University, a BA in law, and a business administration diploma of ESCP-Europe School of Management. He is also the author of “The Capital in the Japanese Economy” and of “Ni Fiers Ni Dominateurs”.
Nadine Lati
Consultant for international entities in the field of communication, business development and partnerships
Israel
Nadine Lati is a consultant for international entities in the field of communication, business development and partnerships. Her role includes engaging with international business community investors, leaders, and High net worth clients. She specialized in managing international business events gathering decision makers in a wide range of fields including finances and Innovative technologies. She also managed forums for non-profit organizations. Nadine Lati has been the Marketing Director of the Corporate Finance Department of Cukierman&Co. Investment House and Managing Partner of the Go4Europe conference, one of the most prestigious business annual meetings in Tel Aviv gathering over 1300 participants from the international business community. She was also Director of the Go4Israel/China seminars bringing top Chinese leaders to Israel to discover the “Start-up Nation” and its innovative technologies. Previously, Nadine Lati had driven managing positions in several entities such as: Orckit, Renault innovation, and SIBAT at the Ministry of Defense in Tel Aviv. Mrs. Lati holds an international BA and MA with honors from ISG – Paris. She has been active in several international non-profit organizations such as the B’nai Brith International.