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Katherine Bauer
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Katherine Bauer is the Blumenstein-Katz Family fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy and a former Treasury official who served as the department's financial attaché in Jerusalem and the Gulf. She is also an adjunct associate professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University’s Edmund A Walsh School of Foreign Service. Before leaving Treasury in late 2015, she served several months as senior policy advisor for Iran in the Office of Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes (TFFC). During the two previous years, she served as financial attaché for the Gulf, representing the department in Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates. Her other posts include assistant director of TFFC; financial attaché in Jerusalem, with responsibility for policy, technical assistance, and sanctions matters in the West Bank and Gaza (2009-2011); and senior analyst focused on illicit financial networks (2006-2009).

Prior to working at the Treasury, Bauer was a nonproliferation graduate fellow at the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration. A graduate of Macalester College, she received her master's degree in Middle East studies and international economics from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.

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Featured Publications

Defeating Ideologically Inspired Violent Extremism A Strategy to Build Strong Communities and Protect the U.S. Homeland
Preventing and countering violent extremism is not a soft alternative to counterterrorism, but an essential toolkit to complement law enforcement's ongoing efforts to prevent violence.
Mar 13, 2017
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  • Matthew Levitt
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  • Katherine Bauer
  • Jacob Olidort
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  • Adnan Kifayat
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Beyond Syria and Iraq: Examining Islamic State Provinces
As an idea, the Islamic State has gone global, attracting far more foreign terrorist fighters than all previous jihadist conflicts
Nov 9, 2016

Policy Articles by Katherine Bauer

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Articles & Testimony
Funding in Place: Local Financing Trends Behind Today’s Global Terrorist Threat
Nov 18, 2020
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  • Katherine Bauer
  • Matthew Levitt
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Iran-South Korea Humanitarian Trade Requires U.S. Assurances
Jul 28, 2020
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  • Katherine Bauer
  • Kevin Mathieson
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The Caesar Act Comes Into Force (Part 1): Increasing the Assad Regime’s Isolation
Jun 11, 2020
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  • Dana Stroul
  • Katherine Bauer
Brief Analysis
Violence Targeting Palestinian Banks Comes at a Sensitive Time
May 14, 2020
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  • Ghaith al-Omari
  • Katherine Bauer
Brief Analysis
Iran's Coronavirus Crisis: Implications for U.S. Policy
Apr 16, 2020
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  • Amir Afkhami
  • Mehdi Khalaji
  • Patrick Clawson
  • Katherine Bauer
Articles & Testimony
Sanctions Relief Isn’t Necessary to Assist Iran’s Coronavirus Response
Mar 31, 2020
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  • Katherine Bauer
  • Dana Stroul
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