Author and Analyst in International and Public Affairs

Reports and Essays

2024

2023

2022

2021

  • IHEID Master’s Dissertation: SWIFT and its Role in Global Security

    • Analyzes the increasing prominence of the SWIFT cross-border communications system in the issuing and implementation of US sanctions.

Selected Commentary and Op-Ed Pieces

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

About

Francis Shin is an author and analyst specializing in transatlantic institutions, anti-corruption, and clean energy policy. He has a Master of International Affairs degree from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, where his dissertation was on the growing role of the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (SWIFT) network in international sanctions regimes.

Shin was previously a researcher at the Atlantic Council and the Future of Financial Intelligence Sharing, a research partnership with the Royal United Services Institute’s Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies. Shin has also worked at the Center for a New American Security in Washington, DC, the United Nations Office at Geneva, and the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum.

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