Alex van Ommen

As an independent consultant I offer business intelligence and client integrity analysis to small and medium businesses. Areas of expertise include: • Sanctions & AML compliance • Trusts and offshore structures • Reputation risk

Ad-interim consulting for: • Rabobank NL (Nov 2016 – now) Complex & Trust client acceptance • ING (Apr 2016 – Oct 2016) Private Banking & Wealth Management • Rabobank NL (Nov 2015 – Feb 2016) Complex & Trust client analysis • MeesPierson (Sep 2015 – Nov 2015) Private Banking • ABN Amro (Mar 2015 – Sep 2015) ECT client acceptance • ING (Oct 2014 – Mar 2015) Trust Desk for Large Corporates & Institutions

• Team lead of 5 CDD analysts • Developed company expertise in core research areas • Conducted CDD policy review for Dutch financial institutions

Teaching English for professionals. Taught as part of a customized corporate program for Microsoft at their headquarters in Redmond, WA.

Helping guide prospects through the application process for Walden University. Key tasks included relationship development, program guidance, and advice on financing higher education. Developed a broad understanding of international Secondary and Higher education. Responsible for daily contact with international prospects.

For OFAC sanctions litigation project: • Translation (NL-EN) of primary sources • Document analysis

Teaching English for adults. Special programs for professionals and job seekers of all backgrounds.

Customer Due Diligence (CDD) analyst for New Client Take On (NCTO) procedures

for the course AMST 2010 Introduction to American Studies: creating lesson plans, conducting and contributing research in support of student learning, execution of some lesson plans, assisting students with their work (both through comments on paper and in person during my office hours), as well as grading and editing work.

Categorizing and filing Structured Funding and Investment department administration, and writing administrative guidelines.

Reviewer of financial transactions for an OFAC sanctions compliance project.

Assisted in organization of a lecture series on immigration and integration for high schools throughout the Netherlands in conjunction with the Fulbright Program. The series was eventually brought to some 1,100 students.

The Advanced MSc in European Integration is an interdisciplinary program with an international scope across political sciences and related disciplines. It provides advanced academic training in EU policies and concepts as relates to the process of European integration in both its economic and political dimensions. The program is offered through the Brussels School of Governance, organized by the Institute for European Studies, a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence.

Research topics/projects: - Expressions of cultural understanding, specifically the manifestation of 9/11 in the death of Captain America. - Covert actions leading to the deposing of PM Mosadeq of Iran in 1953. - Teaching internship at University of Wyoming.

Program major: American Studies. Thesis: Treatment and and employment of a textual subjectivity in specific works of (post)modern American literature.

Followed the BA program. Primary courses in Philosophy, literature, history, art history, and writing.