Miguel Salcedo

Miguel Salcedo specializes in strategic intelligence gathering, cross-border investigations, asset tracing, anti-bribery and corruption reviews, anti-money laundering (“AML”), terror finance analysis and due diligence research for both government and private sector clients. Throughout these engagements, Miguel helps clients mitigate legal and operational risks, protect corporate assets, navigate hostile commercial environments and support complex litigation and arbitration.

Miguel has led investigative teams across Latin America, the Middle East and East Asia, providing deep expertise in sectors including aerospace, defense, energy, entertainment, fintech and mining. He combines open-source intelligence (“OSINT”), social media intelligence (“SOCMINT”) and human intelligence (“HUMINT”) collected through on-the-ground reconnaissance and discreet interviews across the globe.

Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Miguel was an Editor at Control Risks, a political and security risk consultancy, where he oversaw English-, Spanish- and Portuguese-language deliverables and undertook investigations involving Latin America and the Middle East. Preceding this role, Miguel worked as a licensed translator and interpreter. Earlier in his career, he served as an educator in South Korea and Brazil.

Miguel has a B.A. in International Studies from the University of St. Thomas and an M.A. in Cognitive Science, with honors, from Universitat de Barcelona. He was awarded a U.S. State Department scholarship for undergraduate study in Chile, as well as a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship to pursue graduate coursework in International Relations at PUC-Rio in Brazil.

Relevant Experience:

• Investigated several hundred prominent Venezuelans to confirm their sources of wealth while detecting linkages to sanctioned officials within the Maduro regime
• Led a team of a dozen investigators on three continents to conduct financial analysis and deep intel gathering around a major liquefied natural gas (“LNG”) provider in support of a more than $1 billion arbitration proceeding
• Managed multiple workstreams and numerous researchers in a high-profile monitorship for a major South Asian bank exhibiting major AML and terror finance deficiencies
• Performed a major onsite investigation of an international mining company with operations in Suriname following whistleblower allegations of theft, bribery and corruption
• Conducted on-the-ground OSINT and deep intelligence gathering to ascertain undisclosed financial links and export controls violations involving a high-profile U.S. military contractor with links to hostile foreign powers