Him helps clients solve business and legal challenges arising from geoeconomic risks, with a focus on sanctions, AML/CFT, investment security, trade and tariffs, export controls, and other global economic issues involving international institutions, climate finance, and sovereign debt.

Him served as Acting Director of FinCEN, where he led efforts to reform the U.S. AML/CFT framework; issue anti-corruption regulations; and enhance domestic and international stakeholder engagement. Him also led enforcement efforts and supervisory engagement with the Federal banking agencies.

He also served at the White House as Senior Director for International Trade and Investment at the National Security Council and National Economic Council and as Deputy Legal Adviser to the National Security Council. He was the Treasury Department’s top international lawyer and a senior policymaker, where he was Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Trade and Investment and Assistant General Counsel for International Affairs. He started his career at the State Department as a lawyer on economic sanctions, trade, and climate change negotiations.

Him earned his J.D. and M.P.P. from the University of California at Berkeley, and an A.B. in physics. He also earned a M.Sc. from the University of Colorado at Boulder in astrophysics, planetary and atmospheric sciences. Him served as a law clerk at the U.S. federal appellate and district courts. He is a member of the D.C. and California bars.