IBA London Conference

Jeana Lee is the Program Manager at the National Whistleblower Center. She leads NWC’s policy advocacy for greater legal protections for whistleblowers and runs the international campaign to educate governments and NGOs around the world about the importance of transnational whistleblower laws in combatting corruption.

Jeana is also an Assistant News Editor at Whistleblower Network News, where she coordinates and covers news on whistleblower policies and international anti-corruption. She has written pieces on legal and international issues regarding whistleblowing for the National Law Review and the Oxford Business Law Blog.

Prior to her role as Program Manager, Jeana was a Communications Intern at the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), where she helped communicate the Biden-Harris Administration’s climate change agenda to the public. She studied Political Science at the University of California Berkeley.

Benjamin is an experienced associate attorney at Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto, representing whistleblowers in retaliation and award cases. Ben has filed award claims for whistleblowers under the Dodd-Frank Act with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).

Similarly, he has filed tax evasion claims with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), money laundering/sanctions violations cases with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and False Claims Act cases in federal court. To date, whistleblowers Ben has represented have worked with the United States in recovering over $5 billion in sanctions.

Ben also is active in representing whistleblowers who have suffered retaliation, including cases filed under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and arbitration cases under FINRA’s Alternative Dispute Resolution. Ben has developed expertise in combating illegal non-disclosure agreements and representing clients in cryptocurrency claims.

An accomplished speaker, Ben has been a featured presenter at the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners’ White Collar Crime Conference, Anti-Fraud Coalition’s Annual Conference, and Whistleblower UK’s Whistleblower Awareness Week held in London, among others. He is also a member of the Whistleblower UK’s attorneys committee.

Ben has also published extensive articles in publications such as the Financial Times, Oxford Business Law Blog, Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog, New York University School of Law Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement, Law360, and National Law Review.