Jeremy Kuester leads the Financial Crime Legal function at Stripe, Inc., an international payments and technology company. There, he advises the company on navigating its legal obligations with regards to anti-money laundering, sanctions and export controls, anti-boycott, and anti-bribery and corruption.

Before joining Stripe, Jeremy was counsel with the international law firm of White & Case, as well as as a compliance attorney for Merrill Lynch and Co. and then Bank of America. However, he spent most of his career at the U.S. Department of the Treasury in a variety of roles at the Office of Foreign Assets Control, Office of Intelligence and Analysis, and Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.

Jeremy is a graduate of American University’s Washington College of Law and holds a master’s in international affairs from the School of International Service. He graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park with bachelor degrees in business management and government and politics. He is a long-time resident of the DC metropolitan area, where he resides with his wife and two children.