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"Illicit Financing Detection & Prevention" co-authored by Bill Wansley (ACAMS Today, September-November 2009)

A Senior Vice President at Booz Allen Hamilton, Bill Wansley provides consulting support to national security agencies, including the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI).  He leads multidisciplinary teams in support of critical national security functions.  He also supports other federal civil and commercial clients with advanced analytic services focused on the application of financial intelligence to anti-money laundering, counter-terrorism and illicit finance problems.

Mr. Wansley focuses on solving emerging strategic national security planning challenges and the creation of new offices and functions. He has previously served as program manager for several national security related projects and contributed to a broad range of security related services, skills, and insights including strategic planning, mission innovation, continuity planning, counterintelligence, intelligence operational support, and advanced analytics.

Mr. Wansley has 30 years of professional experience as an operational U.S. Army officer, a national security policy planner, and a management consultant for the U.S. intelligence community. His operational military experience includes serving as a field commander, division level war planner, and national security strategist. For the past twelve years, he has supported U.S. Intelligence Community clients in solving national security challenges through strategic planning and advanced analytics.

His national-level policy planning experience includes serving as a strategic planner responsible for the Joint Strategic Planning System for the Directorate of Strategic Plans and Policy, J5, Joint Staff.  Later in his career, he again served the J5 as a national security policy planner and Joint Staff representative for international negotiations on the Treaty for Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE Treaty).

While a student at the School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS), Mr. Wansley published monographs on tactical leadership and a theory of peace, based on the synthesis and integration of traditional military theory and contemporary business management best practices.

He holds an MBA from Creighton University; a M.M.A.S. in theater operations from SAMS; and a B.S. in general engineering from the U.S. Military Academy, West Point.

profile updated February 2010