Michael Dawson
Managing Director and CEOPromontory Asia

Michael leads Promontory’s Asia operations. He is a subject-matter expert in financial-crimes risk management, encompassing anti-money laundering (AML), sanctions, and anti-bribery and corruption (ABC compliance; know-your-customer remediation and transaction reviews; New York Department of Financial Services Part 504 certifications; and issues associated with customer de-risking.

Michael leads a number of Promontory’s RegTech initiatives, including AML & Sanctions Atlas™, RADAR, and a web-based library of compliance obligations and testing scripts. He has worked with traditional financial institutions and FinTech firms in locations around the world.

Prior to joining Promontory, he served as a senior adviser and deputy assistant secretary at the Treasury Department, where he assisted the Deputy Secretary in leading an interagency committee of the National Security Council charged with developing counterterrorist-financing strategies; served as the lead policy official on consumer data protection and privacy issues associated with the Fair Credit Reporting Act and Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003; implemented U.S.-Mexico economic-development initiatives involving remittances, foreign direct investment, and nongovernmental organizations; and led the Treasury’s initiatives on protecting critical financial infrastructure from physical and cybersecurity threats, coordinating the U.S. government’s interagency approach to critical financial infrastructure protection and public-private partnerships including the Financial Services Information Sharing Advisory Council.

Michael holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, an M.Phil. in economics from Cambridge University, and a B.A. in economics from Williams College.