In April 2024, Eliza M. Odom was selected as the Deputy Assistant Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate. Previously, Ms Odom served in the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division as the Section Chief over the Target Discovery Section. In this role she was responsible for identifying new threat actors and networks in furtherance of the FBI’s international and domestic terrorism missions. Her section was also responsible for identifying financial fund raisers and facilitators (terror finance) and providing financial analysis and expertise to assist terrorism investigations. In her previous assignment, Ms Odom served as an Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Portland Field Office.

Ms Odom entered on duty as a Special Agent in 2004 and was assigned to the New York Field Office where she initially worked on applicant and special background investigations and served on the joint terrorism task force. In July 2005, Ms Odom was assigned to a national security squad in the New York Field Office where she worked until May 2011 when she transferred to the Hudson Valley Resident Agency of the New York Field Office.

In December 2011, Ms Odom was promoted to Supervisory Special Agent and served in the National Security Branch at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. where she managed counterproliferation investigations. In 2013, Ms Odom transferred to the Cincinnati Field Office to supervise a squad responsible for national security investigations where she led outreach efforts to educate public and private sector partners concerning national security threats.

In 2016, Ms Odom returned to FBI Headquarters to serve as a Congressional Liaison in the Bureau’s Office of Congressional Affairs primarily serving as a liaison to House and Senate Leadership. In 2017, Ms Odom was promoted to a Unit Chief position in the Counterproliferation Center at FBI Headquarters where she led a unit charged with protecting sensitive U.S. technology and proprietary information and managed investigations into their illicit acquisition.

In 2019, Ms Odom transferred to Inspection Division at FBI Headquarters to lead a unit responsible for conducting internal risk-based audits. In November 2020, Ms Odom reported to the Portland Field Office as an Assistant Special Agent in Charge serving nearly two years in this role before returning to FBI Headquarters.

Ms Odom is the recipient of the FBI Director’s Award. Ms Odom also earned five Office of the Director of National Intelligence awards, to include the National Intelligence Exceptional Achievement Medal.

Ms Odom has a Bachelor of Science degree in management from the United States Military Academy at West Point and an MBA from The Ohio State University.

June Lian is the Deputy Director of the Financial Intelligence and Enforcement Department in Bank Negara Malaysia. She formulates policies to advance the development and effectiveness of the overall Malaysian AML/CFT/CPF regime. This includes ensuring alignment with global standards from the Financial Action Task Force, Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering, etc. She also oversees the Bank’s relationships with regional and international stakeholders (in the area of AML/CFT/CPF). Prior to this, she served in several departments in the Bank including Financial Development and Innovation, Insurance Development, Human Capital Development Centre, Financial Sector Development, Financial Conglomerates Supervision, and Bank Regulation.

Prior to joining the Bank, she was a corporate and conveyancing lawyer at Messrs Skrine. June Lian holds a degree in Law from the University of Malaya, Malaysia, and a Master of Laws from University College London, England.

Ken Yon Kian Guan is the Senior Director, Risk & Compliance Division with Payments Network Malaysia Sdn Bhd (PayNet) which is the national payments operator offering, among others, retail payment services including DuitNow Instant Transfer, DuitNow QR, MyDebit, JomPAY, MEPS ATM, Direct Debit, IBG Shared ATM network and jointly owned by Bank Negara Malaysia and 11 local Malaysian banks.

Ken Yon’s responsibilities in PayNet includes providing strategic steer and direction in risk management and compliance practices. In addition, his responsibilities cover CISO Office of PayNet and oversees the scam and fraud area in PayNet and working closely with the National Scam Response Centre in combating scams.

He has accumulated approximately 30 years of experience in the field of risk management for commercial and Islamic banks and in the national retail payments operation both as a practitioner and with one of the big four accounting firms as a financial risk management consultant. In his early years of his career, he was involved in corporate lending and also a money market dealer and market risk control unit for a large Swedish Bank based in Singapore.

Mohd Fuad Arshad is the Director of Financial Intelligence and Enforcement Department of Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM). His responsibilities include overseeing the implementation of the national anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing (AML/CFT) measures in compliance with international standards. These include fostering strategic collaboration with relevant agencies through the National Coordination Committee to Counter Money Laundering (NCC) where he is the Chair of the NCC Working Group. Under current role, he is overseeing the investigation and enforcement of offences pursuant to laws within BNM’s jurisdictions, the function of Financial Intelligence Unit, AML/CFT policy and strategy implementation, supervision of compliance with AML/CFT requirements by the designated non-financial businesses and professions (DNFBPs), as well as fostering of the regional and international relations in AML/CFT areas.

Mohd Fuad holds an Honors degree in Economics from International Islamic University Malaysia and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from the University of Technology MARA.

Nurul Fitrah Md Nazri at present, is the Head of Compliance Academy, Planning & Strategy, Group Compliance at Bank Islam Malaysia Berhad. She obtained her law degree from the International Islamic University of Malaysia (IIUM) and has extensive working experience in the legal and regulatory field.

She started her legal career with the International Affairs Division, Attorney General’s Chambers, and has participated in international treaties negotiation and drafted several legislation relating to transnational organised crime. Later, she joined the Financial Intelligence Enforcement Department (FIED) of Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) as an AML/CFT policy analyst in AML and sanctions policies, and was a subject matter expert for terrorism financing legal framework. She was part of the team that drafted the AML/CFT Sector 1 policy and amendments to the AMLATFPUA Act 2001. She was also one of the resident speakers for BNM on AML/CFT under the capacity-building role of BNM for the National Co-ordination Committee for Money Laundering (NCC). She left BNM in 2018 to join Touch n Go as the Head of Compliance before she was transferred to CIMB Group AML Remediation Department under Group Compliance, and then she joined Bank Islam in March 2019.

Nurul Fitrah was one of the trainers for the Anti-Money Laundering & Counter Financing of Terrorism Practices (SCAM) certification - formerly known CAMCO — for the Asian Banking School (ABS) — and was an AML/CFT Level 1 course examination committee member. She has also conducted tailor-made training for board members of financial institutions, th etrain-the-trainer programme with BNM for the DNFBPs sector, and a sanctions course for a fintech/remittance company in her capacity as external trainer for ABS.

Dr Sarah Azlina Che Rohim is the Deputy Director of the Financial Intelligence and Enforcement Department at Bank Negara Malaysia. She currently leads the enforcement and investigation teams, leveraging her extensive 20-year plus experience in anti-money laundering, counter financing of terrorism and counter proliferation financing (AML/CFT/CPF). Previously, she has been involved in multiple roles including policy formulation, strategic development, risk assessment, international relations, and supervision.

She is a graduate of the University of Lancaster with an LL.B, holds an LL.M in International Financial Laws, and earned her PhD in Law from the University of Manchester, United Kingdom.