Warren Ryan assumed the role of Deputy Assistant Secretary (Acting) for Europe, Africa, and the Western Hemisphere in Treasury’s Office of Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes (TFFC) in March 2024. In this role, he is responsible for directing strategies, engaging foreign government partners, and interfacing with private sector stakeholders to disrupt illicit finance threats to U.S. national interests. A/DAS Ryan is responsible for TFFC’s Directorates covering Europe, Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia; the African continent; and the Americas and Caribbean.
Prior to assuming this role, A/DAS Ryan served two detail assignments directly supporting the Secretary and Deputy Secretary of the Treasury on national security and international affairs matters. Prior to these assignments, he was the Director for Europe & Eurasia in TFFC, where he led the directorate responsible for formulating counter-illicit finance policy and coordinating the Treasury Department’s economic statecraft tools to address U.S. national security threats across Europe, Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia.
A/DAS Ryan joined TFFC in 2015 as a Policy Advisor, where he covered a range of systemically-focused issues to combat money laundering, terrorist financing, WMD proliferation financing, and other threats to the U.S. and international financial systems. In this role, he served as a member of the U.S. delegation to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), where, among other things, he helped secure revisions to the FATF’s global proliferation financing standards; served as the lead U.S. expert for the FATF’s review of Iran as a jurisdiction with strategic anti-money laundering/countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) deficiencies; and was an expert assessor for the FATF’s 2020 Mutual Evaluation of the United Arab Emirates.
His prior government experience includes serving as the Deputy Spokesperson for the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction and as a Program Officer with the United States Agency for International Development, where he served at the U.S. Embassy in Khartoum, Sudan. He holds a B.S. and an M.S. from Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service, both with honors. In graduate school, he was a teaching assistant to former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, as well as the Editor-in-Chief of the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs. He is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.