Joel Lisker
Senior Vice Chairman
Dudinsky Lisker & Associates
Joel S. Lisker was most recently the Senior Vice-President for Security and Risk Management for MasterCard International where he served as the company's world-wide senior security representative for matters relating to the fraudulent use of its numerous card products. He was instrumental in developing technical solutions and strategies to thwart the efforts of organized crime. As head of Corporate Security, he was responsible for safeguarding MasterCard employees, premises, and property throughout the world. Currently, he is serving on two FBI industry task forces dealing with terrorist financing and identity theft.
After completing his formal education at the University of Pennsylvania (BS) and the Temple University School of Law (J.D.), he joined the FBI as a Special Agent where he worked against domestic terrorist groups. Thereafter, as a Special Agent Supervisor assigned to FBI Headquarters, he developed sophisticated solutions to safeguard FBI communications between FBI Headquarters and several overseas offices. He also developed techniques used in foreign counter-intelligence operations. Next Lisker served as senior trial attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice Criminal Division, Internal Security Section where he directed a task force operating against domestic terrorists and led a group seeking to control foreign agents.
In 1981, Lisker was selected by the Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary to be Chief Counsel and Staff Director of its Sub-Committee on Security and Terrorism. In this capacity, he managed the Committee's oversight and authorization responsibility for the FBI and the U.S. Marshal Service. It was in this role that Lisker organized more than 25 hearings aimed at uncovering the global terrorist inter-connections and transnational operations that became known as the “terror network”. In 1987, Lisker was selected as Associate Counsel to the Senate Select Committee on Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Nicaraguan Opposition. One of his major accomplishments in this assignment was the uncovering and tracing of clandestine funding sources through the Swiss banking network.
Lisker is a member of the District of Columbia Bar and is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He is also admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court. He is a life member of the FBI Agents Association, the Association of Former Agents of the FBI, the Board of Directors of the IAFCI, and the Board of Directors of the Economic Crime Institute.
