Nigel Stoddard

Speaker

BRIEF BIOGRAPHY

Mr. Nigel Stoddard was promoted to Director of the Financial Intelligence Unit of Trinidad and Tobago (“FIUTT”) in 2023 and previously held the position of Deputy Director of the FIUTT since November 2011.

He is the holder of a Master’s in Business Administration and a B.Sc. (Hons) degree in Computing and Information Systems. Mr. Stoddard has been active in the area of criminal investigations, financial intelligence analyses, anti-money laundering, combating the financing of terrorism and counter proliferation financing (AML/CFT/CPF) supervision for just over 25 years.

Mr. Stoddard is currently the Deputy Chair of Trinidad and Tobago’s National Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Financing of Terrorism Committee (NAMLC) and a member of the National Drug Council (NDC) committee of Trinidad and Tobago; Chair of the Supervisory Steering Committee on AML/CFT/CPF and a member of the Fintech Steering Committee.

He is also a Country Examiner trained in both the 3rd and 4th Round of Mutual Evaluation by the CFATF as a Law Enforcement Expert to conduct the assessment of a country’s AML/CFT/CPF Regime in compliance with the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Recommendations. Mr. Stoddard is also a Mentor, trained with the Egmont Group of FIUs ECOFEL Mentorship Program and have mentored regional FIUs. He is a presenter at the FIUTT that provide AML/CFT/CPF awareness sessions in compliance.