Victor Salazar Madrigal is a director at K2 Integrity, based in New York. Victor assists clients with all manner of financial crimes compliance matters, including by helping private and public sector clients understand and manage risk. He works with clients to design and implement policies, processes, and procedures that facilitate compliance with anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT), sanctions, Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), and other requirements and expectations.
Prior to joining K2 Integrity, Victor was a senior research analyst and Latin America team lead at Kharon, where he conducted network analysis on sanctioned persons and illicit finance networks that operate across high-risk jurisdictions in Latin America and Africa. His research was executed through comprehensive open-source research in English, Spanish, and French. During his time as a graduate student, Victor was a risk and compliance intern at the Central Bank of Luxembourg, where he assessed the sanction risk profiles of relevant countries according to the latest guidelines issued by the EU, the U.S. government, the Financial Action Task Force, and the U.N. He also interned at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, where he supported the public affairs efforts of the Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence by coordinating communications between the department and the media.
Victor holds an M.A. from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies and a B.A. in global affairs from the University of California at Los Angeles. He has native fluency in Spanish and intermediate fluency in French.