Duncan DeVille recently joined Binance as Global Head of Financial Crime Compliance. He previously served as Crypto.com’s Head of Americas Compliance and Global Head of Financial Crime Compliance, and before this was Global Head of Financial Crime Compliance at Western Union.
Earlier in his career, Duncan led the Office of Compliance and Enforcement at the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) within the US Department of the Treasury, and also headed the commercial financial crime compliance practice at Booz Allen Hamilton. Concurrent with these roles he was an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University for ten years. He additionally served as Senior Financial Enforcement Advisor in the US Treasury Department’s Office of International Affairs, and as Rule of Law Director with the US Department of Defense in Baghdad during the Iraq War.
Duncan began his career as a prosecutor, serving as a Deputy District Attorney at the US city level and a Special Assistant Attorney General at the US state level before becoming an Assistant US Attorney in Los Angeles with the US Department of Justice’s Organized Crime Strike Force, where he led prosecutions of financial crime cases. He also was posted in Moscow and in Yerevan with DOJ. He holds graduate degrees from Harvard and Oxford, and his undergraduate degree from the University of Louisiana.