Leah McFarland has worked as a Director of Technical Program and Product Management at major U.S. banks, including JPMorgan Chase, State Street, and Citibank, where she has focused on data management, cloud migration, and the use of AI/ML and automation, with a specialty in financial monitoring issues.

 

Prior to that, Leah worked at FSVC, where she managed a $5 million portfolio delivering risk management assistance to financial institutions in the Middle East, North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Eastern Europe.

 

She began her career as a diplomat for the U.S. Department of State, serving in Moscow, the Secretary of State’s operations center in Washington, DC, and Sao Paulo.

 

Leah has an M.A. in International Affairs from the University of California at San Diego and speaks Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, French, and Mandarin.