Lakshmi Kumar
Lakshmi Kumar is the Policy Director of Global Financial Integrity. She oversees GFI's policy, advocacy, and regulatory work focusing on illicit financial flows in the U.S. and Africa. She oversees the organization’s US and Africa operations focusing on illicit finance. Ms. Kumar is invited regularly to provide comment and expertise to governments and international organizations on a host of issues including money laundering through real estate, gold, private investment funds, free trade zones, and policy reforms on beneficial ownership. She has testified before the U.S. Congress on these issues. She is a Senior Fellow at George Mason University and an Adjunct Professor at the Georgetown School of Foreign Service, where teaches classes on trade based money laundering and illicit finance respectively. She is a regular speaker and commentator on anti-corruption and money laundering issues at conferences and events around the world. Her comments and work have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Bloomberg, Reuters, BBC among other leading outlets in Latin America and Africa.
