Jorge Jraissati is the President of the Economic Inclusion Group (EIG), a nonprofit policy group advancing economic opportunity and financial inclusion, especially in the United States. The organization’s main area of focus is protecting people and entities from not only “de-banking” but also the weaponization of their personal information and banking data. This problem is affecting minorities, “politically exposed persons,” international businesses, foundations, and tech entrepreneurs, among others. Jorge is also an influential voice in his home country, Venezuela, pushing for greater political and economic freedoms.

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Jorge has provided policy advice to institutions like the Council of Europe and the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) about the need to guarantee a “Right to Banking” for all by reforming key anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism regulations (AML/CFT laws). Besides financial exclusion, Jorge’s policy work explains how the misuse of these regulations is also blocking innovation in the financial and technology industries, harming international commerce, reducing the effectiveness of financial crime controls, and imposing unreasonable costs and risks for the private sector.  

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Jorge is also a researcher at IESE Business School for the Center for Public Leadership and Government, at the Florida Atlantic University College of Business, and a fellow at the Bitcoin Policy Institute. He has published academic articles, case studies, book chapters, and policy reports at publications like Springer, National Review, and Foreign Policy. He has also given lectures at universities all over the globe, including Harvard, MIT, and Cambridge. Jorge’s research focuses on the intersection between economics, foreign policy, and financial regulation, with an emphasis on analyzing the effectiveness of the U.S. sanctions policy and other geoeconomic attempts to counter the rise of global autocracy.

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Jorge has bachelor’s degrees in economics and business administration from the Wilkes Honors College of Florida Atlantic University. He also has a graduate diploma in public administration from IESE Business School, an economics fellowship at George Mason University, and executive diplomas in policy from Stanford University and management from Harvard Business School.

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