Dzung Le appointed as a Fellow at the South Asia Foresight Network (SAFN)’s Economic Crime & Geopolitics Center in Washington, D.C

Washington, DC — October 8, 2025 — Dzung Le is a compliance, risk, and legal expert with over ten years of experience in regulatory compliance, financial crime prevention, and international legal cooperation. She served as the Public Legal Officer of the Vietnamese Ministry of Justice and principal Point of Contact for Central Authority of Intercountry Adoption, liaising with foreign governments (from over 20 countries) and international bodies (such as the United Nations) under the Hague Convention No. 33. Now based in the UK, she leads compliance and AML programs at financial institutions, and is recognized for her leadership in fraud prevention, risk management, and cross-border compliance policy and procedures. Dzung is also a member of international symposium secretariats and organizing committees focused on economic crime. She is passionate about harnessing data-driven analytics, RegTech innovations, and international partnerships to advance economic integrity and stability in regions facing complex geopolitical and criminal threats.

South Asia Foresight Network(SAFN) Economic Crime & Geopolitics Center in Washington, D.C was established to advance a new agenda: linking economic crime to governance, democratic resilience, and geopolitical competition, while promoting strategies for regional stability. The recently developed Economic Crime and Geopolitics Index(ECGI) from the Center will add a perspective on the present complex environment of political risk in South Asia and Southeast Asia. Despite the scale of the threat from Economic Crime, institutional responses remain fragmented, often failing to account for the transnational nature of illicit financial flows and their strategic consequences. The ECGC seeks to close this gap by serving as a regional and international hub for research, foresight, and policy innovation.