Dries Cools
Head of AML-CFT policy and supervision
Dries Cools heads the National Bank of Belgium’s AML/CFT (anti-money laundering/countering the financing of terrorism) team, which oversees the financial sector’s compliance with its obligations concerning anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism.
Dries began his career at the National Bank in 2014 as a prudential policy expert. Prior to that, he was a corporate law associate in London and an economic policy adviser to the Belgian minister of foreign affairs and the minister of finance. Dries holds master’s degrees in law from KULeuven and Harvard Law School and a master’s degree in philosophy from KULeuven.
