Chair
Vice-Chairs
Executive Secretary
Egmont Group
Chair
Elżbieta Franków- Jaśkiewicz
Elżbieta Franków-Jaśkiewicz is the Deputy Director of the Department of Financial Information of the Polish Ministry of Finance (Polish FIU – The General Inspector of Financial Information).
She has over 30 years of experience in government administration of
Poland – The Polish Police, Ministry of Interior, and Ministry of Finance. For
the past 24 years, Mrs. Franków-Jaśkiewicz has focused on anti-money laundering
and countering terrorist financing (AML/CFT) issues within the Polish FIU.
Her involvement with the Egmont Group (EG) has been extensive, including significant contributions to various working groups. She began with the Operational Working Group (OpWG), now known as the Information Exchange Working Group (IEWG), and later participated in the Technical Assistance and Training Working Group (TATWG). In 2022, Mrs. Franków-Jaśkiewicz was elected Vice-Chair of the Egmont Group, and since June 2024, she has been serving as the Chair of the Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units.
For many years, she has represented the Polish FIU in numerous international AML/CFT activities (EG, FATF, MONEYVAL, EAG, UNODC, OECD, OSCE, the Experts Group on Combating Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing, the EU FIU Platform, FIU.Net, and others) and during numerous trainings organized and provided for various FIUs.
Mrs. Franków-Jaśkiewicz also has experience in AML/CFT twinning and capacity-building projects. In 2010, she was a project’s Resident Twinning Advisor, increasing the capacity of the AML/CFT institutional system dedicated to Romania and was an expert on numerous projects for third countries (Algeria, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Jordan, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Morocco, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Zambia, and others). She is a speaker at national and international conferences, seminars, and workshops on combating money laundering and terrorism financing (ML/TF) issues.
In 2009, Mrs. Franków-Jaśkiewicz was appointed as the Head of Polish Delegation to the MONEYVAL Committee within the Council of Europe, a regional body, and associate member of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). From 2011-2015, she was a Member of the MONEYVAL Bureau; in 2015, she was elected as the Vice-Chair of the MONEYVAL. In December 2017, Mrs. Franków-Jaśkiewicz was re-elected as the Vice-Chair of MONEYVAL. Since August 1, 2019, she has held the President of MONEYVAL position.
Between September 2017 – March 2018, she was seconded by the Ministry of Finance and used to work within the framework of the UNODC Global Programme on Combating Money Laundering, the Proceeds of Crime, and Terrorism Financing (GPML) as an Advisor on combating ML/TF for Central Asia.
Mrs. Franków-Jaśkiewicz holds a master’s degree in Arts. She also graduated from several postgraduate studies (the Warsaw School of Economics, the Police Academy in Szczytno, and the National School of Public Administration).
Vice-Chair
Mohammed Shahid Ahmed
Mohammed Shahid Ahmed is the Chief of Staff at the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit.
In his role at the NFIU, Mohammed leads the Unit’s international cooperation programme, overseeing relationships with the Egmont Group, the Financial Action Task Force and the regional FSRB, the Intergovernmental Action Group Against Money Laundering in West Africa (GIABA), as well as other international partners.
He also supports national coordination on the implementation of Nigeria’s AML/CFT framework, including overseeing the Secretariats of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on AML/CFT/CPF and the National Sanctions Committee responsible for the implementation of the country’s targeted financial sanctions regime.
Mohammed is currently the Regional Representative for the Egmont Group’s West and Central Africa Regional Group having been selected for a second two-year term in January 2024. He was also a member of the GIABA Policy Review Group from 2022 to 2024 and has led Nigeria’s delegation to GIABA on several occasions.
Mohammed holds a first degree in Chemistry and post-graduate diplomas in Information Technology and Project Management.
Daniel Thelesklaf
Daniel Thelesklaf is the Head of FIU Germany.
Mr Daniel Thelesklaf holds a Master of Law from the University of Zurich and has 30 years of experience in anti-money laundering (AML), counter-terrorist financing (CFT), and anti-corruption. Devoted to international AML/CFT cooperation, he has served in leadership roles across institutions and multilateral frameworks.
Daniel began his professional career in the private sector, working in legal and compliance functions at major life insurance and banking institutions. In 1998, he joined the Swiss Federal Office of Police to become the first Head of the Swiss FIU (MROS). He later co-founded a compliance advisory firm and worked as a consultant for institutions such as the IMF, World Bank, OECD, European Commission, and the Council of Europe, with assignments in Eastern Europe, the Caribbean, and Central Asia.
From 2008 to 2011, he was Co-Director of the Basel Institute on Governance and led the International Centre for Asset Recovery. Between 2012 and 2019, he served as Director of the Liechtenstein FIU. During this time, he also chaired MONEYVAL, and was Co-Chair of the FATF ICRG Europe/Eurasia Joint Group. He also served two terms on the Steering Committee of the Egmont Group (2013–2015, 2017–2020)
In 2019, he was re-appointed as Director of the Swiss FIU and became Co-Chair of the FATF Risk, Trends and Methods Working Group. From 2021 to 2023, he led the Finance Against Slavery and Trafficking (FAST) initiative at the United Nations University.
Since July 2023, leads the FIU Germany. In 2024, he joined the General Board (in FIU composition) of the European Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA).
Egmont group secretariat
EXECUTIVE SECRETARY
Jérôme Beaumont
Jérôme Beaumont has more than 15 years of management experience in the field of Anti-Money Laundering, Counter-Terrorist Financing, Counter Proliferation Financing and Sanctions at the government level as well as in Public Private Partnerships.
He has a bachelor’s in political science, a master’s in business administration, is certified in cyber security & Fintech (Harvard) and as board member (Wharton).
Mr. Beaumont held several roles and contributed to European Union and United Nations missions before joining the French Financial Intelligence Unit (TRACFIN) in 2011. Over the next five years, he processed major operational anti-money laundering cases, covered TRACFIN’s international information exchange relating to terrorist attacks in France and was responsible for TRACFIN’s international policies. In that frame, he had regular cooperation with reporting entities and supervisory agencies.
Mr. Beaumont participated in reviewing the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) standards, the Egmont Group’s key documents, and significant information exchange projects such as ISIL Reports. He was also involved in FATF and FATF-Style Regional Bodies evaluations and World Bank activities.
Involved in AML/CTF publications and a frequent presenter in the global financial intelligence fora, Mr. Beaumont has been a regular speaker at the US Congress Parliamentary Intelligence-Security Forum in Washington, DC and also contributed to the Cambridge Symposium on Economic Crime, Wolfsberg Group meetings and ACAMs events.
As Executive Secretary of the Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs), Mr. Beaumont leads a team of strong, passionate professionals committed to supporting Egmont Group activities, its 177 member FIUs, and the global fight against money laundering, terrorist financing, and predicate crimes.
