Justin Wein

Justin Wein is the Senior Advisor for Legislative Affairs at the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN).  He joined FinCEN in March 2023, following nearly two decades of work in the U.S. House of Representatives. He most recently served as Senior Advisor to Congresswoman Dina Titus of Nevada, a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Prior to that he was the longtime Chief of Staff to Congressman David E. Price (ret.), then-Chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and a senior member of the Subcommittee on Homeland Security, and the Subcommittee on State and Foreign Operations. Justin also served simultaneously as Democratic Staff Director for the House Democracy Partnership, a bipartisan Commission of the House of Representatives tasked with promoting responsive and effective governance in democratically elected partner legislatures around the world. He previously served as Deputy Chief of Staff/Washington Director, as well as Legislative Director for Congressman Price, where he initially served as the principal advisor in his role as Ranking Member for the Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security.

Prior to joining Congressman Price in 2012, he spent seven years working for Congresswoman Nita M. Lowey, the historic first female Chair of the House Appropriations Committee. At the end his tenure with Congresswoman Lowey, Justin served as her primary advisor on Homeland Security, Defense, Intelligence, Trade, and Transportation issues and had worked on 11 of the 12 annual Appropriations bills and their associated policy portfolios.

Mr. Wein is a recognized leader in governance and national security issues, having traveled to more than a two dozen countries to assess and train legislative staff and elected officials, and has spoken multiple times at The George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Germany on the role of the U.S. Congress in Defense and Foreign Affairs policymaking. Justin has also served as an International Election Observer in Tunisia and Georgia and was previously a Fellow in the Penn Kemble Forum on Democracy through the National Endowment for Democracy (NED).

A native of Syosset, New York, Justin graduated with a degree in Political Science from Syracuse University and earned a master’s degree in political management from The George Washington University.