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Crowell & Moring’s Caroline Brown Elected as Member of the Council on Foreign Relations

Firm News | 1 min read | 09.20.23

Washington – September 20, 2023: Crowell & Moring partner Caroline E. Brown has been elected as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Brown joins the ranks of leaders in the foreign policy arena who are CFR members, including top government officials, scholars, business executives, journalists, prominent lawyers, and nonprofit leaders.

Brown is a member of the firm’s White Collar and Regulatory Enforcement,International Trade, and Financial Services groups and the steering committee of the firm's National Security Practice. Following a decade of service at the U.S. Departments of Justice and the Treasury and the White House, working to disrupt threat actors and guard the nation’s financial system against illicit use, she now advises corporations, senior executives, and boards of directors on national security and trade matters.  Brown helps clients navigate  anti-money laundering and economic sanctions compliance and enforcement challenges, as well as cross border government investigations and transactions, including national security reviews by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS).  Drawing on her DOJ experience coupled with her regulatory expertise, she handles high profile enforcement actions and representations before DOJ, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN).  

The Council on Foreign Relations is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and students, civic and religious leaders, and other interested citizens in order to help them better understand the world and the foreign policy choices facing the United States and other countries.

Since the establishment of the Council on Foreign Relations in 1921, the organization remains true to its founding principles to “afford a continuous conference on international questions affecting the United States, by bringing together experts on statecraft, finance, industry, education, and science.”  For more information, visit www.cfr.org.

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