Andrew Zerzan
Andrew Zerzan (born 27 May 1981) is a former World Bank official and working group secretary for the United Nations Counter Terrorism Implementation Task Force. He is Director of Education at the British Council. Andrew is a frequent speaker on economic development and financial crimes issues and a source in anti-money laundering literature. In 2014 he was commended for his work building a worldwide risk management programme at the City of London's Risk Management Awards. Early life and education Zerzan was born in the United States. He graduated from the University of Toronto with a double major in politics and economics and subsequently studied financial & commercial regulation at the London School of Economics. Research and professional life Zerzan has worked on initiatives at the United Nations, the World Bank and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to transform how the poor move financial assets. He and his colleagues developed the first risk assessment tools to help firms and regulators calibrate responses to the actual risks faced. For this work he was awarded Junior Professional of the Year by the World Bank. At the British Council, Zerzan helped to form a collaboration between the United Kingdom and China. The aim of