Erica Hanichak is the deputy director at the FACT Coalition, where she leads the group’s engagement with federal policymakers. 

Erica is an advocacy professional dedicated to ending global corruption and the abuses it perpetuates. Before joining FACT, Erica spent five years working with U.S.-based nonprofits focused on advancing transparent governance, accountability, and rule of law in the Middle East. From 2017-2020, Erica served as government relations director at Americans for a Free Syria, where she partnered with lawmakers, administration officials, and other grassroots nonprofit organizations to pass and implement bipartisan legislation targeting the networks that fuel mass human rights violations in Syria and the region. She likewise campaigned to augment counterterror financing measures and prevent the diversion and abuse of U.S. humanitarian aid. She previously worked as an analyst of U.S.-Turkish relations in Washington, D.C. 

Erica has appeared on Fox News, CBN News, and international television media, and her work and comments have been featured in The Hill, The Daily Beast, and the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, among others. She holds a Bachelors of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University in International Politics, with a focus on International Security and Eurasian Studies. 

Scott Greytak is the Deputy Executive Director for the U.S. office of Transparency International (“TI”), the world’s oldest and largest anti-corruption network. He manages the U.S. office’s federal legislative agenda, which includes issues impacting political integrity, illicit finance, corporate transparency, and whistleblower protection. Greytak has helped lead legislative, legal, and ballot measure initiatives on campaign finance, voting, foreign influence, gerrymandering, and ethics, and is a nationally recognized expert on judicial corruption. He’s written extensively on democracy and civil rights issues in popular and scholarly publications, and authored anti-corruption laws in Florida, Nevada, Alaska, and the Dakotas, among other jurisdictions. Before joining TI, Greytak helped pass over 20 state and local anti-corruption reforms as Senior Counsel for RepresentUs, the largest grassroots anti-corruption organization in the U.S. Before that, he designed legal challenges to cases such as Citizens United v. FEC as Counsel for Free Speech For People, and authored the leading report on judicial corruption in the U.S. as Senior Policy Counsel for Justice at Stake. He chairs the Legislative Committee of the ACLU of D.C. and was the 2018 American Constitution Society Lawyer Chapter President of the Year. He holds Juris Doctor and Bachelor of Arts degrees from Ohio State University.

Jodi Vittori is an expert on the linkages of corruption, state fragility, illicit finance, and US national security. She is Professor of Practice and co-chair of the Global Politics and Security program at Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service. Before joining the Georgetown University faculty, she was the US Research and Policy Manager for Transparency International’s Defense and Security Program and a senior policy advisor for Global Witness. She was also previously a non-resident fellow with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Jodi also served in the U.S. Air Force, advancing to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel; her overseas service included Afghanistan, Iraq, South Korea, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Saudi Arabia, and Bahrain, and she was assigned to NATO’s only counter-corruption task force. She was an Assistant Professor and military faculty at the US Air Force Academy and the National Defense University. She is also a founder and co-moderator of the Anti-Corruption Advocacy Network (ACAN) which facilitates information exchange on corruption-related issues amongst over 1000participating individuals and organizations worldwide. Jodi is a graduate of the US Air Force Academy and received her PhD in International Studies from the University of Denver.

John Cassara began his 26 year U.S. government career as an intelligence officer during the Cold War.  He later served as a Treasury Special Agent in both the U.S. Secret Service and US Customs Service where he investigated money laundering, trade fraud and international smuggling.  He was an undercover arms dealer for two years.  Assigned overseas, he developed expertise in Middle East money laundering, value transfer and underground financial systems.  Concerned about trade-based money laundering, he invented the concept of Trade Transparency Units (TTUs).  He also worked six years for Treasury’s FinCEN and was detailed to the Department of State.  Mr. Cassara’s final assignment was with Treasury’s Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence (TFI).  Since his retirement, he has lectured in the United States and around the world on a variety transnational crime issues.   He is also a consultant for government and industry and is on the Board of Directors of Global Financial Integrity.  He has testified numerous times as an expert witness before Congressional committees.  Mr. Cassara has authored numerous articles and five books, including Trade-Based Money Laundering: The Next Frontier in International Money Laundering Enforcement.

Raymond Baker is the Founding President of Global Financial Integrity and the author of Capitalism’s Achilles Heel: Dirty Money and How to Renew the Free-Market System, published by John Wiley & Sons and cited by the Financial Times as one of the “best business books of 2005.” He has for many years been an internationally respected authority on corruption, money laundering, growth, and foreign policy issues, particularly as they concern emerging market and developing countries and impact western economic and foreign interests. He has written and spoken extensively, testified often before legislative committees in the United States, Canada, the European Union, and the United Kingdom, been quoted worldwide, and has commented frequently on television and radio in the the United States, Europe, Africa, Latin America, and Asia on legislative matters and policy questions, including appearances on ABC News’ Nightline, Al Jazeera, BBC, Bloomberg TV, the CBS Evening News, CNN, NPR, PBS, and Four Corners (ABC1 in Australia), among others.

Mr. Baker founded Global Financial Integrity in 2006, and the GFI team has produced more than 25 economic analyses of resource transfers affecting countries, regions, and the world. GFI has led in securing the terminology and the reality of illicit financial flows onto the global political-economy agenda. He also serves on the Policy Advisory Board of Transparency International-USA and on the Advisory Board of the Ethical Research Institute.

In 1996 he received a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for a project entitled, “Flight Capital, Poverty and Free-Market Economics.” He serves on the World Economic Forum’s Meta-Council on the Illicit Economy. He traveled to 23 countries to interview 335 central bankers, commercial bankers, government officials, economists, lawyers, tax collectors, security officers, and sociologists on the relationships between bribery, commercial tax evasion, money laundering, and economic growth. From 1985 to 1996 Mr. Baker provided confidential economic advisory services at the presidential level for developing country governments. Activities focused principally on issues surrounding anti-corruption strategies, international terms of trade, and developing country debt. Research was conducted with 550 business owners and managers in eleven countries, concerning import and export mispricing and movement of tax-evading capital, and money laundering.

From 1976 to 1985 Mr. Baker conducted extensive trading activities throughout Latin America and in ten Asian countries including the People’s Republic of China. An affiliated company in London handled transactions in Europe. From 1961 to 1976 he lived in Nigeria and established and managed an investment company which set up and acquired manufacturing and financing ventures, the subject of two Harvard Business School case studies. Educated at Harvard Business School and Georgia Institute of Technology, Mr. Baker is the author of “The Biggest Loophole in the Free-Market System,” “Illegal Flight Capital; Dangers for Global Stability,” “How Dirty Money Binds the Poor,” and other works published in the United States, Europe, Africa, and Latin America.