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Jenna Behrends

Jenna is a policy officer at the German Federal Ministry of Finance, specializing in the prevention and combating of terrorist financing.

Most recently, she led Germany’s national risk analysis on terrorist financing in close cooperation with ministries, security and supervisory authorities, intelligence services, and the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU).

As part of this work, she developed proposals to improve the legal framework and strengthen the national defence system. Jenna shares her expertise as a speaker at specialist conferences and industry events.

She is also trained as an assessor for country evaluations by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and was in charge of Germany’s follow-up procedure as part of Germany’s mutual evaluations.

Jenna is a trained journalist and a fully qualified lawyer with a focus on criminal law.

 

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