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Kimberly Donovan is a nonresident senior fellow with the Economic Statecraft Initiative within the Atlantic Council’s GeoEconomics Center and is the head of client advisory and analytics within Citi’s Independent Compliance Risk Management Banking and Client Sanctions practice.
Donovan holds extensive expertise in anti-money laundering/countering the financing of terrorism; the Bank Secrecy Act; US national security; and US, UK, and EU sanctions programs and regulatory actions.
Prior to joining Citi, Donovan was the director of the Atlantic Council’s Economic Statecraft Initiative and led the Initiative’s work and analysis on sanctions and the use of economic power to advance national security objectives. Before joining the Council, Donovan served in the US federal government for over fifteen years, most recently as the head of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s (FinCEN) Intelligence Division and previously as FinCEN’s chief of staff and senior advisor to the director.
Prior to joining FinCEN, Donovan served a tour on the White House National Security Council as a director for counterterrorism and served in Treasury’s Office of Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes as a senior policy advisor and director of the Middle East and North Africa. Before joining Treasury, Donovan worked in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence/National Counterterrorism Center and the Defense Intelligence Agency. In these roles, Donovan developed national strategies to combat terrorist groups and terrorist financing leveraging the full range of US economic tools, advised senior policymakers on critical national security challenges, and collaborated with foreign partners to advance shared foreign-policy objectives.
Donovan holds a master of arts in international peace and conflict resolution from the School of International Service at American University and a bachelor of arts in political science from the University of Vermont.