Little Compton, Rhode Island, United States
With more than fifteen years in the executive and congressional branches of the US Government, and twenty years in academia and think tanks, Sue Eckert is a recognized expert on the use of economic instruments for international peace and security objectives. She is a former senior government official and scholar focused on issues at the intersection of policy and academia; she has worked extensively with the United Nations, the World Bank and other international organizations, as well as Member States. She currently serves on the UN Analytical and Support Monitoring Team assisting the UN 1267 (ISIL (Da'esh) and Al-Qaida) and the 1988 (Taliban) Committees. Previously she served as Senior Associate with the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)'s Humanitarian Agenda; Non-resident Senior Adviser at the International Peace Institute (NY) for the project on “Safeguarding Humanitarian Action in Sanctioned Jurisdictions;” Consultant to the World Bank on financial access issues; Lecturer at Yale University's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs; and faculty at Case Western Reserve Law School, teaching in the first master's degree program in financial integrity. She focuses on issues at the intersection of economics and international security - counter-terrorism and sanctions, AML/CFT policies, derisking and financial access for NGOs, and proliferation financing.