Description:
Tannuva Akbar was born and raised in Bangladesh. Having come from a military family, she has always been interested in global security and national defence. With a passion for security studies, she came to Canada in 2005 to pursue her undergraduate degree in international relations and political science at the University of Toronto. During her Masters program, she developed further interests in counter-terrorism policies and financial intelligence on illicit financing. Subsequently, she secured an internship at the Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units in the summer of 2014 where she further developed her knowledge on anti-money laundering (AML) and countering the financing of terrorism (CFT). Her internship led to a part-time consultant position at the Egmont Secretariat where she conducted research on AML/ CFT policies and the role of international organizations, governments and financial intelligence units (FIUs). Currently, she is preparing to launch a career in financial crime and fraud investigation roles in the private sector, and therefore, wants to be more involved with the security and terrorism network that combines academia, policy officials and other actors.