John Schmidt, MSc
John
Schmidt, MSc is Team Leader, Strategic Research and Analysis, at
FINTRAC, Canada’s FIU.
John is responsible for strategic and policy-relevant analysis,
focusing on financial intelligence, at FINTRAC, Canada’s anti-money
laundering and counter-terrorist financing financial intelligence unit
(FIU). He completed BSc and MSc degrees in Psychology at the University of
Alberta.
His experience has included working for the Alberta Attorney
General’s Department, 1977–1988, University of Canberra, 1988–1989,
Australian Attorney-General’s Department, 1989–2000, AUSTRAC (Australia’s
FIU), January to April 2000, and FINTRAC, 2000 to present, first as the
Manager, Strategic Planning, then in the development and operation of
FINTRAC’s strategic analysis unit. This included a five-year secondment to
the Integrated Threat (now Terrorism) Assessment Centre (ITAC),
2006–2011.
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