Program Director, Gold Threat-Finance Disruption, Western Hemisphere

PADF, through its Peace, Justice, and Security thematic area, is pursuing an opportunity to implement a 24-month regional counterterrorism program funded by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Counterterrorism (CT). The program is designed to disrupt and sever the revenue that Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) and allied transnational criminal organizations derive from illicit gold mining in Colombia, Peru, and Ecuador. The program maps the illicit gold value chain from mine to market, identifies the highest-value chokepoints, and equips partner-nation institutions to investigate, prosecute, and dismantle the financial and logistical networks that convert illicit gold into FTO revenue, while protecting legitimate miners and lawful trade.