Baroness Penn was appointed Treasury Lords Minister in the UK Government on 30 October 2022, having been Baroness in Waiting (Government whip) between 19 March 2020 and 20 September 2022.

She previously served as Deputy Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Theresa May from 2016 to 2019 and became the youngest member of the House of Lords when she joined the House on 21 October 2019. From 29 October 2019 to 21 April 2020, she was a member of the Lord’s Science and Technology Committee.

The Treasury Lords Minister is also responsible for:

• Economic security
• Financial sanctions (including OFSI)
• Countering economic crime and illicit finance
• Russia/Ukraine conflict
• Trade policy (input to DIT FTAs): services, including financial services
• International climate and nature finance
• ESG in financial services, including Green Finance
• Women in Finance
• Overseas territories and Crown Dependencies

Anila represents over 300 firms on sanctions compliance and export controls implementation at UK Finance, the collective voice for the banking and finance sector. This includes advancing work with international regulatory bodies, governments and enforcement agencies to align on foreign policy objectives via public and private sector information.

Winner of the 2023 ICA Europe Awards, Anila is recognised and celebrated as Founder of the Women in Sanctions Forum and Co-host of the UK Finance Sanctions School podcast series, regularly bridging the gap as a generational leader promoting Diversity, Equity & Inclusion.

David has worked in financial services for over 40 years. At Barclays he worked for three Group chairmen, helped set up Large Corporate Banking, had wide experience in SME and consumer banking and ran the Group’s IT and operations function. David subsequently led Commercial Banking for Lloyds Bank, then was chief executive of Cattles PLC (a consumer finance and invoice finance business) before joining Moneycorp (an independent FX provider) as CEO. Before joining UK Finance David spent eight years at Bibby Financial Services as the chief executive.

Mike Zolandz is the chair of Dentons' Federal Regulatory and Compliance practice, and serves as the Managing Partner for Dentons’ Washington, DC office. Mike focuses his practice on advising clients on their most critical and complex trade compliance and foreign investment projects, specializing in cross-border transactions and regulations related to international commerce.

Mike offers clients practical expertise and guidance in advising on US export controls, US trade sanctions programs, anticorruption program development, and notification procedures before the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). Mike also brings decades of policy experience in Washington to offer clients insight into the legislative and regulatory process beyond purely technical expertise.

Mike has led internal investigations and regulatory disclosures under US export control and sanctions programs, and managed complex compliance enhancements and program development for US and multinational companies across industry sectors.

Mike’s compliance expertise also extends to experience with federal and state campaign finance and ethics law, lobbying disclosure requirements and pay-to-play restrictions, as well as registration requirements under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.

Roger leads the UK International Trade practice at Dentons, and is a member of the Trade, Regulatory and Government Affairs practice group and the Financial Crime team. Roger advises clients from all sectors on financial and trade sanctions, export controls, WTO law and the UK's web of trade agreements, trade remedies and customs, foreign direct investment restrictions and supply chain analysis. He also advises on financial crime issues, including money laundering, and bribery and corruption. His practice ranges from advisory, strategic, contractual and compliance advice, through engaging with regulators and making license applications, to investigations and contentions advice. He advises on the range of trade and regulatory issues arising out of the UK's post-Brexit trade and regulatory environment, including for clients trading both into and out of the UK. His clients include businesses in manufacturing, financial services, energy, mining, retail, pharmaceuticals and IT services, as well as government bodies.

In addition to many years in private practice, Roger has previously served as a national expert on sanctions and certain trade policies at the European Commission, in the HM Treasury sanctions and financial regulatory teams and in the PRA legal team at the Bank of England.

Roger is a sanctions expert on the Law Society’s Money Laundering Task Force, and writes regularly on trade, sanctions matters and export control matters.

Neil is responsible for the UK Finance sanctions programme and has worked in the financial services sector for over 20 years, concentrating on sanctions compliance since 2009. Prior to joining UK Finance, Neil was the sanctions SME for Internal Audit at Deutsche Bank in London and spent over seven years at Lloyds and later HSBC helping both banks review and improve their sanctions compliance.

Neil is a Fellow of both the International Compliance Association and the Society for Advanced Legal Studies and holds an MSc in International Commercial Law and Financial Crime Compliance.

Hera is a Director, Financial Crime Compliance Practice Lead for Moody’s Analytics. She has extensive experience in Sanctions, AML, and Financial Crime, and has built global sanctions programs and implemented Sanctions and PEP screening and KYC verification systems.

Before joining Moody’s, Hera worked at Danske Bank, where she helped enhance the Bank’s sanctions processes and managed external commitments to global regulators. Prior to Danske Bank, she headed the Global Sanctions Program of a global payments company and a bank in California. In her early career, she worked as a litigation lawyer, and is a licensed attorney in California and the Philippines.

She is a Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) a Certified Global Sanctions Specialist (CGSS) and a Certified Sanctions Specialist (CSS). She also has Diploma in Governance, Risk & Compliance from the International Compliance Association (ICA). She also helped draft the sanctions certifications for ACSS and ACAMS.

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

Rakesh Patel is the Head of Sanctions Policy Oversight & Export Controls at HSBC, with oversight responsibilities for HSBC’s sanctions and export controls policy and control framework globally.

Rakesh joined HSBC in 2014, when the bank was reforming and strengthening its sanctions and AML compliance capabilities under a US Deferred Prosecution Agreement which was successfully lifted in December 2017, and has since overseen further development and enhancements to support HSBC becoming a leader in managing financial crime risk.  Before this, Rakesh spent 14 years at Deloitte LLP working on a wide range of financial crime investigations across Sanctions, AML and AB&C. He began his career as a management consultant in the energy sector with Arthur D. Little Ltd. Rakesh is a regular speaker at industry events and is currently the co-Chair of the UK Finance Sanctions Panel.

He is a Chartered Management Accountant and holds a Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College London.

I started in Sanctions in 2008 in the Corporate Sanctions Team working on Customer Alerts and Reviews and answering queries from the Business. In 2011, I moved into the Group Sanctions Team, providing sanctions advice to Business aligned sanctions teams across the globe, managing breaches, regulatory disclosures and exceptions to Policy. After a filling a variety of different roles in that team, in January last year, I moved into a new role combining management of that central team (Sanctions Escalations) and the Alerts Advisory team who review and decision payment and customer alerts.
 

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.

Daniel joined the FCDO in 2001 and has been posted in Ethiopia and Egypt, where he worked through the Arab Spring. In the UK he has worked as Deputy Director for foreign policy in the Cabinet Office and as head of the joint MOD/FCDO Euro-Atlantic Security Policy Unit, as well as holding a series of FCO/FCDO roles. He became the head of the FCDO’s then-Sanctions Unit in December 2021. Since January 2022 he has worked solely on the UK’s response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and is now Deputy Director (Russia/Belarus) in the FCDO’s recently created Sanctions Directorate. In this role he is responsible for the design of the UK’s sanctions response to Russia’s invasion, working closely with partners across Government and internationally.

Chris has been a civil servant in the UK for more than 30 years and is now the Deputy Director of the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) at HM Treasury. He spent the first phase of his career working on environment and transport policy, before embarking on national security roles covering security science, resilience and cyber security. The opportunity to look at national security from a fresh perspective attracted him to the Treasury and to OFSI, where he has been since 2019.

Mahmut Sen is Head of Rules and Regulations for Siemens Healthineers Global Export Control and Customs Office. Siemens Healthineers is a separately managed healthcare business of Siemens AG enabling healthcare providers worldwide to meet their current challenges and to excel in their respective environments. Prior to his addition at Siemens Healthineers, Mahmut served as reviews and external relations Manager for Export Controls at Siemens AG located in Munich and Brussels, where he was responsible for Trade Compliance within Siemens Global Service engagements and external relations. He currently has responsibility to define export control specific processes, procedures and ensures implementation of export control and customs policies and regulations for globally to guarantee the fulfillment of all organizational and control duties. He is located in Munich and holds a Degree in Business Law from the University of Applied Science in Bielefeld.

Chris Thomas is a counsel in White & Case’s International Trade Practice Group. His practice covers a broad range of compliance and trade-related matters, including sanctions and export controls, foreign direct investment screening, trade remedies, customs, supply chain due diligence, WTO law, and international trade disputes. He brings over 15 years of experience from government, the private sector, and academia to bear when advising clients.

Before joining White & Case Chris was a senior lawyer with the UK Government, where he led the legal team responsible for advising the Department for International Trade on all matters relating to export controls and sanctions. This included advising the Export Control Joint Unit on legislative, policy, licensing, and operational matters.

Earlier in his career, Chris was an assistant professor at the London School of Economics & Political Science, where he taught international trade law, investment treaty law, the law on the use of force, and public international law. He has a PhD in international trade law from the University of Cambridge, where he was a WM Tapp Scholar and Honorary Cambridge Commonwealth Trusts Scholar.

Luke Peyton is the Senior Manager in the FCA’s Financial Crime Market Interventions department, overseeing the delivery of the FCA’s sanctions supervisory work. He joined the FCA in 2010 and has held a number of supervisory and operational roles in the FCA, including Private Secretary roles for Executive Directors of Authorisations and Supervision. He has previously worked on establishing new functions, teams and ways of working in the FCA. Prior to his current role he created and led teams who proactively identify unauthorised firms.