Women in Sanctions

"Believe in the power of compliance to drive positive change."

Anti-money Laundering and Sanctions professional with a background gained over ten years across several sectors, including e-commerce, financial services, banking, payments and corporate. Sara has recently joined Kayak and OpenTable managing and evolving their financial crime and sanctions compliance programmes. Previously she spent five years at GlaxoSmithKline leading and building their sanctions compliance framework and capabilities, a role that has allowed her to develop valuable experience in managing various stakeholder groups across the organisation, mastering resilience through the delivery of key sanctions compliance changes.

Over 30 years’ experience in the Banking Industry, +15 specifically dedicated to Compliance and Financial Crime prevention.

Victoria is a Principal Associate in the Corporate Crime and Investigations Team at Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP. Her specific areas of expertise are financial sanctions and anti-money laundering ("AML").

With over 10 years of experience, Victoria is a highly regarded specialist in areas of AML, international financial sanctions, internal investigations and remediation.  She primarily advises a range of global top tier financial institutions and corporate entities and also has extensive experience in respect of criminal and regulatory investigations, prosecutions/enforcement and self-disclosure in the context of sanctions violations.

Zahra Mashhood is an Associate in the Government Enforcement and White-Collar Crime Team at the law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (UK) LLP, based in London. Her practice focuses on cross-border investigations, both regulatory and internal, in relation to sanctions, fraud, bribery, corruption, money laundering and competition breaches. She has assisted corporations and individuals in proceedings brought by the U.K. Serious Fraud Office, Financial Conduct Authority, Competition and Markets Authority, Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, as well as the U.S. Department of Justice, Department of Financial Services and Securities and Exchange Commission, and other international regulators. She also assists clients with reviewing and updating corporate compliance programs,

“Sanctions compliance has never been more complex, fast-paced and challenging, honoured to be part of such an amazing community to share, learn and grow.”

Starting her career as a trader and then following her passion of geo-political topics into compliance and Sanctions for over fifteen years at a number of investment banks. Experience of the breadth of sanctions compliance framework topics.

Lotte joined Standard Chartered in May 2021 as a Director in the Group Sanctions Team and leads on monitoring applicable global sanctions laws and regulations, drafting sanctions policies and standards for the bank, and providing technical advice on business and transactional matters. Prior to joining Standard Chartered, Lotte was at Barclays bank where she drafted and provided guidance on the bank’s Financial Crime Policy and Standards.

“In a truly connected world, sanctions compliance is a key element of the business’ sustainability.”

Currently the Global Head of Financial Crime for Bupa, Dara leads the financial crime risk management prevention agenda for the organization with a special

focus on providing senior SME sanctions advice. Dara is a US qualified lawyer who has worked both in law firms and in house, having devoted much of her time in the last 9 years to sanctions compliance in the US, UK, and globally.

Natalie has worked at Marsh McLennan for over 11 years covering the full range of financial crime risks including anti-bribery and corruption, money laundering and trade sanctions.  Natalie is now Head of Sanctions & AML, responsible for the company’s sanctions and AML framework and providing advice to the business on the many and increasingly complex sanctions that may affect our company globally. Marsh McLennan’s services include insurance broking, health and benefits and management consultancy so sanctions questions are frequent and varied.

Previous jobs in communications and change management have provided an invaluable background for work on the many financial crime developments over recent years, such as implementing new anti-bribery laws and managing the increasing numbers of complex trade sanctions and export control regulations.  

Sinéad Goss is the General Counsel for AML, Anti-Bribery and Sanctions Legal in the EMEA region at Citi. Having originally trained and qualified as a corporate solicitor she joined Citi in 2007 as the EMEA Head, Investment Banking Legal. Sinéad fulfilled this role for 7 years before moving into her current role in 2014. She provides legal advice to the bank on complex AML, Anti-bribery and sanctions issues across the region, including both advisory and investigations work. 

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“Are sanctions the modern world’s war? Some argue that it is a war, not an alternative to it. And they may be right, whether you are holding a gun or imposing financial sanctions, it is at the end of the day civilians who suffer from the brutal impact of it. Whatever people’s views, sanctions are and have been successful in changing behaviour of authoritarian governments in the past and by working together to make them more targeted and meaningful, they can be a credible alternative to war.”

Before joining Aviva Investors and the fight of wider financial crime in July 2017, Fiki was already enjoying fighting crime in general insurance side of business tackling fraud for 10 years for commercial property claims. Since joining the team, Fiki has qualified and is a member of Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists and has also gained Certificate of Global Sanctions Specialist.

Lucy started her career as a litigator at Clifford Chance.  For the last decade she has been in-house at Morgan Stanley as the Financial Crimes Legal Counsel. Her practice started with a focus on Anti-Corruption, now more recently focused on Economic Sanctions legal and advisory work.