George Pearmain

George Pearmain is an experienced professional in financial crime prevention with over 15 years’ experience and Managing Director of Monere Global. Monere Global is a consulting firm specialising in delivering tailored solutions for AML/CFT regimes to governments and institutions around the world. George's work focuses on addressing jurisdiction-specific needs in preventing financial crime, building long-term domestic capacity, and applying skills and experience where most valuable to deliver impactful and sustainable outcomes. Key areas of work include developing and turning national policies and strategies into action, assessing money laundering, terrorist financing and proliferation financing risks, beneficial ownership transparency and complying with international standards.

He has over a decade of public and international organisation service, previously acting as Director of Financial Crime Strategy for the Government of Jersey and Head of Delegation to MONEYVAL (2020 - 2024) where he led Jersey’s 2024 Fifth-Round Mutual Evaluation, securing some of the highest effectiveness ratings globally. He was also a member of the FATF Secretariat (2018-2020), working with jurisdictions and FATF style regional bodies (FSRBs) in Eastern and Southern Africa and the Caribbean. During his career he has carried out numerous assessments of both FATF and MONEYVAL jurisdictions, particularly around complex or high-risk jurisdictions and systemically important international financial centres and has acted as a lead reviewer in the FATF International Co-operation and Review Group (ICRG), assessing jurisdictions navigating grey-listing processes. 

George has also been involved in FATF Training initiatives and developing and finalising the most recent FATF standards and guidance for transparency related to beneficial ownership. By background, George is an Advocate of the Royal Court of Jersey and a Barrister of England and Wales (both non-practicing) and has previously worked for leading international law firms across IFCs.