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.

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 previously worked at Lloyds and later HSBC helping both banks review and improve their international 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 from the University of Law.

Anu has extensive 21 plus years of experience in UK, USA and Asia including global multi-year complex Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) transformation initiatives. 
She is also Fellow of International Compliance Association specialising in drafting of Global AML Policy, Standards, and global implementation, advisory at Group / Business / Regional Level. 

Anu is currently EMEA Head of Regulatory Change and Global Programmes at BNY Mellon. She has previously worked with HSBC, UBS, Deutsche Bank, Barclays, RBS and Cisco Financial Services. In 2016, she advised a FinTech company which uses Artificial Intelligence systems for FCC. Anu started her career in Technology before moving onto FCC.
 

Meredith Rathbone is a US-qualified, London-based lawyer who counsels clients on export controls, economic sanctions, and related national security matters. Her experience includes assisting clients in resolving politically sensitive matters under the joint administration of various government agencies, including the Departments of Commerce, State, and Treasury, as well as non-US government agencies. She heads Steptoe's 60-person International Trade and Regulatory Compliance group and is the co-chair of its Chambers Band 1 Economic Sanctions and Export Controls practice.  

Meredith received her B.S.F.S. from Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, and her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. 

Nicholas is Head of the FCDO’s Sanctions Regimes and Litigation Department. He led and drafted the UK’s Sanctions Strategy. His remit covers the full range of non-Russia UK and UN sanctions regimes. He previously led delivery of foreign policy objectives for the UK’s G7 presidency. He was head of strategy in the UK’s Department for International Development and has worked extensively in East Africa. Before joining the civil service, he worked for the BBC’s Hardtalk interview programme; at Parliament; and at the Overseas Development Institute.

Freya is a sanctions specialist working with public and private sectors across the globe to ensure proper sanctions compliance, enforcement, implementation and understanding. Starting in the illicit finance field with HM Treasury in 2015 she went on to be a founding member of the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI). Freya has undertaken roles across compliance, enforcement, guidance and engagement.

As Director of Global Outreach at Kharon, Freya now works as a thought leader across a number of geographic sanctions and thematic regimes, speaking regularly to international governments, industry, and non-profits to promote the understanding and use of compliance risk solutions. Freya regularly authors and collaborates on white papers and articles as well as contributing to roundtable discussions, and co-chairs the UK Finance Associate Members Panel.

Satindar is senior partner in the firm’s London Litigation, Arbitration & Investigations practice. He is widely acknowledged as an expert in corporate crime, sanctions and fraud. He leads the firm’s sanctions practice and has developed the market standard in relation to Russian sanctions. Satindar regularly advises clients on governmental investigations including by the UK’s Serious Fraud Office, the National Crime Agency and the Office for Financial Sanctions Implementation. 

Leslie Stubbs is an International Sanctions Officer with the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). She is on secondment to His Majesty’s Treasury’s Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation. Before coming to London, she was a Senior Sanctions Policy Advisor and Enforcement Officer with OFAC.

Thomas Lane is an associate in the Litigation & Trial Department of the London office of Latham & Watkins. He is a solicitor advocate and a member of the firm’s International Arbitration and Complex Commercial Litigation Practices. He also regularly works with Latham colleagues from Washington, D.C. as part of the firm’s Export Controls, Economic Sanctions & Customs Practice.  Mr. Lane is listed as a Rising Star by Legal 500 UK, where he has also been described as having "partner-level expertise and judgement."  Before joining Latham, Mr. Lane worked as the United Nations bureau producer for the BBC.

Joelle Jones is a Sanctions Senior Manager at HSBC with primary focus on Trade Sanctions and Export Controls. She has previously held financial crime advisory roles at HSBC within the global private bank and global banking and markets lines of business covering AML, AB&C, sanctions, tax, and fraud. Prior to HSBC, she held regulatory and financial crime roles at UBS AG as part of a graduate programme.

Alongside graduate training at UBS, she held training roles within the Compliance department of DVB Bank, later moving to Legal with a focus on aviation and shipping finance.

Tom Keatinge is the founding Director of the Centre for Finance and Security at RUSI, where his research focuses on matters at the intersection of finance and security. He is also currently a specialist adviser on illicit finance to the UK Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee. He has a Master’s in Intelligence and International Security from King’s College London.  Prior to joining RUSI in 2014, he was an investment banker for 20 years at J.P. Morgan.

Rosamund de Sybel is Head of Geopolitical Risk, Financial Crime Compliance, at ICBC Standard Bank where she leads analysis of the interplay of geopolitical and financial crime risks in order to mitigate against increasingly complex and multi-faceted threats. She was formerly a director at a US-headquartered due-diligence and investigations firm, and held the position of Editor/Economist Middle East & Africa at a global research firm. She was also editor of a Middle East business and economics journal, and helped to launch the Geo-Economics programme for a leading British defence and security think-tank. She has a first-class degree from King’s College London, having spent an exchange year at University of California, Los Angeles.

Chris Po-Ba is Head of Sanctions Advisory (Market) at Lloyd’s and specialises in international financial and trade sanctions. Chris’ role at Lloyd’s is to support the Market with guidance and engaging with Regulators to support the implementation of sanctions. Chris has worked for several insurers and Lloyd’s Managing Agents (insurers) as their Compliance Officer and has worked in the sector for over 25 years. Chris’ experience also covers Underwriting, Claims, Risk Management and Audit.

Spencer Chilvers (Head of Export Control and Sanctions Policy) joined Rolls-Royce plc in June 2010 with responsibility for export control and sanctions policy, relations with governments and the EU on export control issues. Currently Chair of the Executive Committee of the UK Export Group for Aerospace, Defence & Dual-Use, a member of the Aero Space and Defence Industries Association of Europe (ASD) Export Control Committee and a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

Prior to that he worked for the UK Export Control Organisation (ECO) and was responsible for their interests in the export control regimes (in particular the Wassenaar Arrangement and the Nuclear Suppliers Group), relations with the EU (The Dual-Use Working Group, Intra-Community Transfers of Defense Products and COARM) and the UN (Arms Trade Treaty, Firearms Protocol and UNSCR 1540.)  

Joe is one of OFSI’s Enforcement Branch Heads, overseeing enforcement casework and operations in his unit as well as wider policy development across the team. Joe has a number of years’ experience in financial sanctions implementation having previously worked in OFSI’s licensing division.

Anna is responsible for establishing and leading the new Office of Trade Sanctions Implementation (OTSI) in the Department for Business and Trade (DBT). OTSI will help to deliver on the Prime Minister’s commitment in the Integrated Review Refresh last year to support sanctions enforcement in light of the unprecedented package of sanctions against Russia imposed by the UK and its partners over the last few years. OTSI’s purpose is to strengthen and boost the Government’s capacity and capability on trade sanctions implementation and enforcement. OTSI will work closely with other relevant Government departments and bodies, including in partnership with HMRC on enforcement and with OFSI. Anna’s team is currently in the advanced stages of establishing OTSI, including preparing legislation that will give OTSI civil enforcement powers.

Anna is a highly experienced senior civil servant. Prior to moving to DBT to take up her current role last year, Anna spent most of her career at HM Treasury in a range of leadership, policy and delivery roles, including the economic response to the Covid pandemic. She has deep and extensive knowledge of financial services through her roles at the Treasury on regulatory reform, on savings, insurance and pensions, and on consumer credit.