The NYU Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement (PCCE) is pleased to announce that Julie Copeland is PCCE’s new Executive Director. 

Ms. Copeland, a former state (New York County District Attorney’s Office) and federal prosecutor (the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York), has spent the bulk of her legal career in the financial services industry. Starting at Merrill Lynch, she ran the first anti-money laundering unit in the securities industry. She spent the next nine years at Merrill Lynch, rising to the post of global head of anti-money laundering, sanctions and FCPA compliance. Upon leaving Merrill Lynch, Ms. Copeland joined IDB Bank as General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, successfully leading the Bank out of a Cease and Desist Order. Ms. Copeland moved to Société Générale for a year and thereafter, became the first General Counsel for Financial Crimes at JPMorgan reporting to the General Counsel of the Bank. Ms. Copeland spent two and a half years at Exos Financial, a fintech started by Brady Dougan, the former CEO of Credit Suisse. She joins PCCE from the advisory/consulting firm, StoneTurn.