Sigal P. Mandelker was confirmed as Under Secretary of the Treasury

for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence on June 21, 2017.

Under Secretary Mandelker is charged with developing and

implementing U.S. government strategies to combat terrorist

financing and money laundering, as well as other policies and

programs to fight financial crime.  She oversees the operation and

coordinates actions of the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC),

Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), the Office of

Intelligence and Analysis (OIA), and the Office of Terrorist Financing

and Financial Crimes (TFFC).  In this role, she leverages the

Department’s unique regulatory and enforcement functions to help

safeguard the financial system from illicit use and combat terrorist

financiers, weapons of mass destruction proliferators, human rights

abusers and corrupt actors, money launderers, drug kingpins, and

other national security threats.

Under Secretary Mandelker has served in senior law enforcement and national security positions at the U.S. Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security.  From 2006-2009, she served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice, where she oversaw four major prosecutorial sections and a number of significant cross-border prosecutions involving cybercrime, human rights, child exploitation, intellectual property theft, and other national security and law enforcement priorities. 

Prior to that position, she served as Counselor to the Secretary of Homeland Security, where she advised the Secretary and worked extensively on intelligence, national security, counterterrorism, and border security matters.  She also previously served as Counsel to the Deputy Attorney General, where she worked extensively on national security and counterterrorism matters.  Under Secretary Mandelker was also an Assistant United States Attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, and a Special Assistant to the Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division.

Prior to her confirmation, Under Secretary Mandelker was a partner at Proskauer Rose LLP.  She was a law clerk to the Honorable Clarence Thomas, U.S. Supreme Court, and to the Honorable Edith H. Jones, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. 

She holds a Juris Doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Michigan.