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On September 11, 2001, Celina Realuyo (MBA 2000), a private banker at Goldman Sachs in London, watched in horror on her office TV as the attacks in New York City and Washington unfolded. A former U.S. Foreign Service officer who had worked at U.S. embassies in Spain and Panama as well as in the White House Situation Room, Realuyo had left government to attend HBS. Now, she realized, her country needed her once again.
I was just so angry, she told the Chicago Tribune (February 10, 2003), and I was in a position to do something about it. Realuyo left London and returned to Washington, where, with her banking and diplomatic skills, she became a policy advisor to the State Departments Counterterrorism Finance and Designation Unit. She trains foreign government officials and bankers on procedures for preventing money laundering and disrupting terrorist finance networks. The job is as unglamorous as it is essential, and involves lots of meetings, planning sessions, reports, travel, and bureaucratic jousting. At the end of the day (usually very late at night), it also involves a much smaller paycheck. The work, Realuyo said, amounts to just a piece of the puzzle. But its a big piece.
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