Alexandra is the head of Foreign Trade Controls at A.P. Møller - Mærsk A/S, also known as Maersk, and part of the Maersk Compliance Leadership Team. She is responsible for the sanctions and export control compliance programme at Maersk. Maersk is an integrated container logistics company working to connect and simply its customers? supply chains. As the global leader in shipping services, Maersk operates in 130 countries and employs roughly 70,000 people. 

Prior to this position, Alexandra was a senior legal counsel for Maersk Line A/S, the largest container ship operator in the world, implementing its compliance programmes in anti-corruption and foreign trade controls. She supported the business and implemented the compliance controls enabling Maersk to re-enter the Iranian market in 2016 in light of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). She rolled out Maersk Line's zero facilitation payment policy for the company's owned fleet in its fight against corruption. 

Blanc was previously the deputy lead coordinator and State Department coordinator for Iran nuclear implementation at the U.S. Department of State under President Obama, responsible for the full and effective implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on Iran's nuclear program, including Iranian and U.S. commitments on sanctions. Prior to this position, he was the principal deputy special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan (SRAP) and acting SRAP. During his government service, Blanc twice received the State Department's Distinguished Honor Award and received the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service, its highest civilian honor. Before joining the State Department in 2009, Blanc spent many years working for international organizations and NGOs advising senior decision-makers on conflict termination and political transitions. He managed the first elections in Iraq and other complex infrastructure and governance operations in conflict and post-conflict areas such as Afghanistan, Kosovo, the Palestinian Authority, Lebanon, and Nepal.

Blanc has been a Council on Foreign Relations international affairs fellow, a visiting scholar at the U.S. Institute of Peace, a senior policy analyst at the Open Society Institute, and an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland and the George Washington University.

Jonathan Burke, UK and EMEA Chief Sanctions Officer 

Jonathan joined Citibank in 2019 based in London where he has responsibility for sanctions compliance matters across the EMEA region.  Previously, Jonathan led the sanctions services portfolio within Ernst & Young's Financial Services Advisory practice in the U.S., supporting global financial institutions with sanctions compliance program enhancements as well as independent reviews for U.S. and UK regulatory authorities. Prior to that, Jonathan held several positions with the U.S. Government, including sanctions policy roles within the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Terrorism & Financial Intelligence. 

Tina Carlile is responsible for providing risk-based advice and counsel to BP businesses and group functions primarily concerning trade sanctions and export controls. Prior to BP, Tina was a Senior Manager at Deloitte LLP's London office where she provided compliance advice on US, UK and EU sanctions, import/export controls and licensing. Tina also assisted clients on a variety of trade-related compliance issues including risk assessments, audits, cyber controls and investigations. Prior to Deloitte, Tina worked for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in Washington, DC, where she led DHS's Technology Export Control Policy and Compliance Office and served as DHS's representative regarding drafting and review of trade control regulations.

Tina is a graduate of Austin College and the UCLA School of Law.  Tina is a member of the California Bar. 
 

Richard is the Head of Sanctions at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Europe (SMBCE) and is responsible for all aspects of sanctions compliance within SMBCE. Additionally Richard has a regional advisory mandate throughout EMEA. Richard joined SMBCE in February 2013 and played a major role in establishing a robust sanctions systems and controls framework. During his time at SMBCE Richard has led in responding to the implementation of EU/U.S. sanctions targeting Russian interests, the implementation of the JCPOA and now subsequent U.S. withdrawal. Working closely with deals teams at SMBCE, Richard has substantial experience in sanctions risk mitigation with respect to corporate banking.

Prior to SMBCE, Richard worked in an AML and Sanctions function at Credit Suisse during a period when the bank was under a Deferred Prosecution Agreement for sanctions violations and played a significant role managing the challenges presented by the Arab Spring. Prior to Credit Suisse, Richard began his career working on a KYC remediation project at Goldman Sachs.
 

Jennifer Fowler is an expert in illicit finance and economic sanctions-related issues, having served in senior positions in the U.S. Department of the Treasury for nearly two decades. In her roles at Treasury, Jennifer developed and led the implementation of counter-illicit finance strategies and policies.  She was most recently Treasury's Deputy Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes, and served as the Vice President of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the global standard setter for anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism. 

Jennifer has deep expertise in the U.S. and international regulatory frameworks for anti-money laundering, counter-terrorist financing, and counter-proliferation financing, as well as the range of illicit finance and sanctions risks companies face today.  She has extensive experience working with foreign governments and financial institutions to prevent, mitigate and respond to illicit finance threats.

Ellie Geranmayeh is Deputy Head of the Middle East and North Africa programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations. She specializes in European foreign policy in relation to Iran, particularly on the nuclear and regional dossiers and sanctions policy.

Geranmayeh advised European governments and companies on the nuclear negotiations between Iran and world powers from 2013-2015 and continues to brief senior policy makers on how to effectively safeguard the implementation of the nuclear agreement. Prior to joining ECFR, Geranmayeh worked at Herbert Smith Freehills law firm. She graduated in Law from the University of Cambridge. 

Head of Division, Sanctions Policy Division, European External Action Service, Brussels from September 2016. Deputy EU Representative to the West Bank and Gaza, Jerusalem, from December 2013. Deputy Head of Division, Maghreb, European External Action Service, Brussels, from January 2011. Coordinator (Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine and Political Desk, Ukraine, European External Action Service, Brussels from September 2008. Director, INTERIGHTS, the International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights, London from August 2005. Coordinator, EU Election Observation Coordination, Directorate General for External Relations, European Commission, Brussels from 2003. Adviser on Human Rights, Good Governance and the Rule of Law, UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London from 2001. Previously: Deputy Director of the European Human Rights Foundation, Brussels, Political Office, Delegation of the European Commission to Armenia and Georgia, Tbilisi, and Barrister in Legal Practice at the Bar of England and Wales, London.

Mary Kirwan is a lawyer on three continents, an ex-Canadian Department of Justice money laundering prosecutor, journalist and cyber security specialist. She has held a number of senior management roles in banking and technology companies, including, most recently, acting as MLRO at Credit Suisse UK. She holds advanced degrees in business and technology and several certificates in cyber-security (CISSP) and data protection (CIPM and CIPP/E).

Having specialised in EU law, Alina currently deals with a wide range of EU sanctions issues, from their shaping, negotiation and adoption, to their practical implementation and potential lifting, as well as and their relationship with UN sanctions.

Alina's portfolio includes several geographical EU sanctions regimes, as well as thematic ones such as terrorism and chemical weapons, but she also monitors horizontal projects like the humanitarian impact of sanctions. In recent months, she has been closely involved in the so-called ?revival? of the Blocking Statute, including its adoption, and is coordinating the team in charge of monitoring its application at EU and national level.

In her previous life, Alina was a lawyer in a leading Spanish law firm, advising and representing clients in competition law disputes and administrative proceedings before national and EU authorities, and teaching EU law in Spain and Germany. She is still a member of the Barcelona Bar Association and continues to cooperate with academia in Belgium.

Chris leads the Sanctions Team at Lloyd's to support the Lloyd's Market through guidance and setting Policy. From the beginnings in a coffee shop in 1688, Lloyd's has been a pioneer in insurance and has grown over 330 years to become the world's leading market for specialist insurance. Chris has over 20 years of experience in the (Re)Insurance sector and was formerly the Compliance Officer for several Lloyd's Managing Agents (insurers). Chris has a background in Underwriting, Claims, Risk Management and Financial Crime.

David Peyman is Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Counter Threat Finance and Sanctions. In this capacity, Mr. Peyman leads the Office of Economic Sanctions Policy and Implementation and the Office of Threat Finance Countermeasures. ?

Mr. Peyman joined the State Department from BlackRock, Inc., where he was Global Head of Sanctions and led the sanctions compliance framework for over $6 trillion in assets under management and offices in 30 countries. Prior to joining BlackRock, Mr. Peyman was a Special Assistant United States Attorney and Deputy Attorney General of California. During his service as a prosecutor, Mr. Peyman was also an adjunct law professor at Southwestern Law School, where he taught a course on Government Investigations and Prosecutions. Mr. Peyman began his law career at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom LLP and was the senior sanctions advisor to United Against Nuclear Iran.

Mr. Peyman served as Jewish Affairs and Outreach Director for the Trump-Pence campaign and on the Presidential Transition Team. Mr. Peyman obtained his law degree from Harvard Law School and his undergraduate degree from UCLA, where he graduated summa cum laude, received the Chancellor's Service Award and was the class commencement speaker. He speaks fluent Persian.

Qudsi Rasheed is Deputy Director Multilateral Policy and Head of the Sanctions Unit at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). His recent diplomatic postings include Head of the UK's Syria Office in Beirut, and External Relations Counsellor at the UK Representation to the EU in Brussels. Prior to joining the FCO, he was a barrister specialising in international and human rights law, and was also a visiting tutor at King's College London and University College London.

Mike Salthouse is Chairman of the International Group of P&I club's Sanctions subcommittee and Deputy Global Director (Claims) at the North of England P&I Club based in Newcastle. Mike studied law at Manchester University and then qualified as a solicitor with Norton Rose, London. He joined North of England in 1992 working first as a solicitor in the FD&D dept. before opening and managing North's office in Greece in 2000. In 2005 he transferred to the P&I Claims team which he now manages. Since 2011 he has chaired the International Group's sanctions subcommittee.

John E. Smith, former Director of the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), is co-head of Morrison & Foerster's National Security practice, and a member of the Global Risk + Crisis Management group and Investigations + White Collar group. While serving as a top official at OFAC, Smith was centrally involved in all aspects of developing, implementing, and enforcing U.S. government sanctions requirements. As OFAC Director, he oversaw every OFAC enforcement case against financial institutions and global operating companies.  

Smith has leading expertise on U.S. sanctions, anti-money laundering (AML), and export controls cases and policies. While serving at OFAC, he worked closely with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to pursue major sanctions and export controls enforcement matters, including significant civil and criminal penalties against major global actors and noteworthy cases against malicious cyber actors. He has overseen the U.S. government's economic sanctions efforts, imposing sanctions on heads of state, countries, and illicit actors, conducting enforcement actions against dozens of major financial institutions and companies around the world, and developing innovative sanctions enforcement policies to address evolving U.S. national security priorities.

Henry is the head of our Europe, Middle East and Africa business intelligence and due diligence practice. Henry leads an integrated team of country experts, business intelligence specialists and researchers in London, Nairobi, Johannesburg, Lagos, Berlin, Moscow, Amsterdam, Paris, Milan and Dubai. The team provides varying depths of due diligence to help clients make decisions about business relationships with companies, people and governments, or to meet their compliance requirements; decision-making advice with regards to third party risk management; intelligence to inform the evaluation of growth and expansion opportunities; and intelligence to resolve problems and crises affecting their organisation.

Henry has extensive experience providing advice to senior decision-makers in private sector and government-owned entities, including on critical investment decisions, country strategies, problem resolution, risk management and sanctions compliance. He was previously based in the Dubai office from where he led our political risk consulting in the Middle East and North Africa. This included designing and running our due diligence and political risk consulting for clients that were considering business with Iran under the terms of the 2015 nuclear deal. Henry has significant experience advising clients on compliance with UN, US and EU sanctions regimes alongside their in-house and external counsel.

Samantha Sultoon is a visiting senior fellow with the Atlantic Council's Global Business and Economics Program and the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security.  She is also a 2018-2019 international affairs fellow with the Council on Foreign Relations.  In her capacity as a visiting senior fellow, Ms. Sultoon publishes and provides expert insights on the use of sanctions and economic statecraft to achieve foreign policy and national security objectives. 

Formerly a sanctions policy expert for the Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), Ms. Sultoon played an integral role in the agency's policy work.  She created and led the implementation of OFAC's strategy on Brexit- and EU-related sanctions and coordination issues, including through diplomatic engagement and technical capacity building with allies and partners.  Ms. Sultoon also shaped new policies and regulations for both strengthening (Syria) and easing (Burma, Cuba, Sudan) sanctions and broader foreign policy measures.  She also helped develop and implement new economic statecraft tools to combat human rights abuse and corruption as Treasury's representative to the interagency Atrocities Prevention Board and as the policy lead on Global Magnitsky sanctions.  During her tenure at OFAC, Ms. Sultoon was instrumental in designing the strategy and implementation of the Obama administration's historic sanctions easing toward Cuba, and in the initial recalibration of Cuba policy by the Trump administration in 2017. Finally, as a senior policy advisor, Ms. Sultoon represented OFAC domestically at congressional briefings and interagency meetings, and internationally in engagements with foreign governments and the private sector.

Prior to her work at OFAC, Ms. Sultoon served as an intelligence analyst and senior briefer at the Department of the Treasury, and as a risk expert for the World Bank. There, she managed and edited her team's global risk publications for the World Bank's Executive Board.  Ms. Sultoon also led crisis management and business continuity training for World Bank offices in the Middle East and North Africa.

Ms. Sultoon has an MSc with distinction from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London and a BA from the University of Michigan. 

Nathalie von Taaffe is currently the Group Head of Financial Crime Policy, Advisory & Controls for the Industrial Commercial Bank of China Standard Bank PLC (ICBCS).  Before working at ICBCS, Nathalie was Head of Anti-Bribery and Corruption and Sanctions at Credit Suisse, covering the Europe, Middle East and Africa region. Nathalie joined Credit Suisse in 2011 in New York and worked to close out the Sanctions DPA between the firm and US authorities.  She also worked at Credit Suisse's Zurich headquarters where she was responsible for establishing and implementing the bank's anticorruption related policies and procedures.

Prior to Credit Suisse, Nathalie was in private practise at the law firm WilmerHale based in their Washington, DC office engaged in white collar crime matters. Before joining WilmerHale, Nathalie worked for a number of international and national government employers and clients, such as the United Nations, the IAEA,  the National Law Center, the US House of Representatives and the German Bundestag.  In the US, Nathalie is admitted to the New York and DC Bar and in the UK, she is a solicitor admitted to the Roll of Solicitors.  

An international trade lawyer by background, Stacey has over 20 years? experience advising clients on all aspects of the economic crime compliance lifecycle, in particular on global export controls, sanctions, customs fraud and corruption. A recognized industry expert on export controls and sanctions, Stacey's practice covers a wide range of industries, with a particular focus on oil and gas, chemicals, manufacturing, trading, shipping, metals and mining and wider energy matters. She specialises in conducting complex, multi-jurisdictional investigations and identifying areas of risk and opportunity, with emphasis on developing tailored compliance frameworks designed to minimize economic crime related risk.

Justine Walker has overall responsibility for the UK Finance programme on international sanctions compliance. Regarded as a global specialist in economic sanctions she has acted as a national expert on financing of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) matters, sits on numerous international financial sanctions expert groups and is chair of the European Banking Federation's group on financial sanctions.  Justine has held senior policy positions in the UK Financial Services Authority and the UK Treasury's Counter Terrorist and Proliferation Financing Branch, she has further acted as an IMF advisor on the Nigerian anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing capacity building programme. Formerly based in Central Asia with the United Nations, she worked on programmes surrounding weapons and drugs trafficking, corruption and terrorist financing.

Justine has extensive experience of working with foreign governments, international bodies and financial institutions. This includes acting as an independent expert to the UN and other bodies on the promotion of payment channels in support of permissible international humanitarian activity within sanctioned and fragile jurisdictions, particularly Syria. On behalf of the Alliance for Financial Inclusion and under the auspices of the German G20 Presidency, she prepared the special report on access to finance for forcibly displaced persons. She is author of the ICA 2017 Advanced International Sanctions Compliance Certificate and has contributed to numerous publications on counter proliferation financing and the management of high risk sanctions scenarios. Justine holds a PhD from the University of St Andrews and an MSc from the University of Edinburgh.