Chandana Ravindranath

Chandana Ravindranath is the Head of Strategic Illicit Finance Initiatives and Counselor to the Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence at the U.S. Treasury Department. In this capacity, she leads the Department’s Anti-Money Laundering/Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) regulatory agenda, managing the execution of Secretary Yellen’s priorities for this space.

She previously served as the Inaugural Director for Anticorruption at the National Security Council where she supported the Biden-Harris Administration’s goals on countering corruption. Most notably, this entailed her leading the U.S. interagency in drafting, publishing, and implementing the first-ever U.S. Strategy on Countering Corruption.

Prior to this, Chandana served in the Treasury Department as Director for Financial Transparency and Regulatory Policy, managing the team focused on some of the most notable related issues, including corruption, financial inclusion, de-risking, remittances, beneficial ownership, digital assets, data privacy, correspondent banking, and public-private partnerships.

She was an integral member of the team that built and implemented the Global Magnitsky Sanctions Program, and she represented the U.S. Government during the Financial Action Task Force’s Mutual Evaluation.

Prior to joining the Treasury Department, Chandana worked as a Senior Associate at DLA Piper’s New York office in the white-collar crimes practice group.