Professional with 20 years of experience in the field of financial crime, in which he has been actively involved as a trial lawyer, strategic policy advisor, international consultant, national state authority, political advisor, leader of non-governmental organizations, university professor, and author of scientific and opinion articles. In the professional sphere, he founded and leads Marteau Abogados, a law firm focused on influencing decision making in the field of transnational economic-financial crimes, providing highly specialized services of strategic advice, intelligent litigation and global consulting. In particular, he acts as an advocate in several criminal, criminal-administrative and criminal-economic litigations in which companies and their executives have suffered abusive actions by governmental agencies. In this task, he has represented his clients before the competent administrative agencies and all instances of the Argentine federal justice system, including the Argentine Supreme Court of Justice. As a pro-bono activity, he represents the family members of one of the Argentine victims of the ISIS-inspired terrorist attack in Manhattan, NYC. In order to intervene before the Argentine federal courts, he is a member of the Colegio Público de Abogados de la Capital Federal and the Cámara Federal de Apelaciones de San Martín (Federal Court of Appeals of San Martín). In addition, he advises major financial institutions and leading national and foreign companies in the field of communications on corporate risk management policies and regulatory compliance with respect to money laundering and financing of terrorism. In this activity he has designed institutional mechanisms for organizations to be effective in the prevention of illicit activities. He is accredited in the Financial Information Unit of Argentina as an Independent External Auditor, having acted in the most important companies of the financial, insurance and capital market sectors. He is also a consultant to international organizations in the field of systematic risk assessment of financial crimes, having participated in numerous high-level missions. As a consultant for the UNODC, he was an expert for the Financial Disruption Program in Burkina Faso, Senegal and Colombia, and an observer in the Mutual Evaluation of Equatorial Guinea (GABAC). As a consultant to the IMF, he was involved in the development of national strategies in Uruguay, Paraguay and Panama. As an IDB consultant, he was national risk assessor for Paraguay. In the area of public management, he served as National Coordinator for the fight against money laundering and financing of terrorism (Macri Administration). He also acted as National Coordinator and Representative of the Argentine Republic before the Financial Action Task Force (FATF-GAFI), the Financial Action Task Force for South America (GAFISUD) and the Group of Experts for the Control of Money Laundering of CICAD- OAS (Kichner Administration). In these technical-political positions, he promoted the first Terrorist Financing and Proliferation Risk Assessment, represented the National State in the Second Mutual Evaluation of FATF-GAFI, acting in 4 continents (America, Europe, Africa and Asia); coordinated the first National Agenda against money laundering and terrorist financing, approved by Decree Nr.

1225/2007; and was responsible for the drafting of several bills on terrorism and financial crime, including the draft bill on Illicit Terrorist Associations and Financing of Terrorism, which incorporated for the first time these crimes in the National Criminal Code (Law 26.268). He also advised the Presidency of the Criminal Legislation Commission of the Honorable Chamber of Deputies of the Nation and numerous deputies and senators on financial crimes. In the field of non-governmental organizations, he founded and chairs FININT / Fundación de Investigaciones en Inteligencia Financiera, dedicated to influencing the public agenda in the fight against terrorism and financial crimes. As a member of the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) of the U.S. Department of State, he co-founded REAL / Argentine American Network for Leadership. Currently, he is Director of the Committee on Transnational Organized Crime at the Argentine Council for International Relations (CARI). He is also a member of the American Bar Association. At the university level, he developed his entire academic career through public competitions. Currently, at the University of Buenos Aires, he is Professor of Criminology (School of Psychology), Director of the Postgraduate Program on Global Prevention of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (School of Law) and Director of the Center for Studies on Hemispheric Security, Terrorism and Financial Crime (School of Law). He completed postdoctoral stays at the Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Strafrecht (Germany), the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme and the Centre de Recherches Sociologiques sur le Droit et les Institutions Pénales (France); and the Faculté des Sciences Sociales of the Université d’Ottawa (Canada). He received his Ph.D. and M.A. in sociology from the University of São Paulo (Brazil). He studied criminology at Hamburg Universität (Germany). He received his law degree from the Universidad Nacional del Litoral (Santa Fe, Argentina). He is a speaker at conferences and specialized meetings in the country and abroad; and author of books (Las Palabras del Orden and La Condición Estratégica de las Normas), articles in specialized magazines and opinion articles in the main Argentine newspapers, on issues concerning law, politics and financial crime. He is fluent in Spanish (mother tongue), French, English and Portuguese. For his work, he also speaks German and Italian.