NEWS RELEASE

 

For Immediate Release – October 14, 2014

Nassau Community College Presents

 

The Economic Fight Against Terrorism - Former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury and Terrorist Financing Expert Juan Zarate 

 

October 27 

Garden City, NY – Nassau Community College is pleased to present The Economic Fight Against Terrorism on Monday, October 27 at 2:00 p.m. in the Multipurpose Room of the College Center Building. The program will be presented by Juan Zarate, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury and national security advisor to the President. (download hi res image)

Juan Zarate led efforts to attack terrorist financing, to innovatively use the Treasury Department's national security powers, and to hunt worldwide for Saddam Hussein's assets. He wrote in his recent book, Treasury's War: The Unleashing of a New Era of Financial Warfare, that "geopolitics is now a game best played with financial and commercial weapons."

Currently, Zarate is a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the senior national security analyst for CBS News, a visiting lecturer of law at the Harvard Law School, and the Chairman and Co-Founder of the Financial Integrity Network.

Zarate served as the Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Combatting Terrorism from 2005 to 2009, and was responsible for implementing the U.S. government's counterterrorism strategy and policies related to transnational security threats. He was the first-ever Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes, where he led domestic and international efforts to attack terrorist financing. Zarate is a former federal prosecutor who served on terrorism prosecution teams prior to 9/11, including the investigation of the USS Cole attack.

In addition to Treasury's War, Zarate also wrote Forging Democracy and a variety of articles for The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall St. Journal and The Washington Quarterly. He is a graduate of both Harvard College and Harvard Law School.

For more information about The Economic Fight Against Terrorism, which is free, open to the public and accessible to the disabled, call 516.572.7148.

Media Contact:  Alicia Steger516.572.9634Email: alicia.steger@ncc.eduncc.edu/newsreleasesAbout Nassau Community College Nassau Community College, a division of the State University of New York, is an institution where over 22,000 full- and part-time students and approximately 10,000 continuing and professional students start and continue their successful journey through higher education. More than 70 fields of study are offered on a 225-acre campus located in the center of Long Island. As the largest single-campus two-year college in New York State, Nassau Community College maintains a national reputation for excellence. For more information, visit www.ncc.edu.

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