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.

Anne-Marie was previously Secretary of State for Transport between 6 September 2022 and 25 October 2022. She was Secretary of State for International Trade and President of the Board of Trade from 15 September 2021 to 6 September 2022.

Previously Anne-Marie was the UK International Champion on Adaptation and Resilience for the COP26 Presidency between 7 November 2020 and 6 September 2022. She was Minister of State (Minister for Energy, Clean Growth and Climate Change) at the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy from January 2021 to September 2021.

She was the Secretary of State for International Development from February to September 2020. She was Minister of State for the Armed Forces from 17 December 2019 to 13 February 2020, and Minister for Defence Procurement from 27 July 2019 to 16 December 2019.

Anne-Marie was first elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for the Berwick-upon-Tweed constituency at the 2015 general election.

A chartered accountant by trade, Anne-Marie sat on the House of Commons’ Public Accounts Committee from July 2015 to May 2017 and December 2018 to July 2019. She has previously served as the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Defence. As an MP, she has campaigned with colleagues for greater autism awareness and has focused on the Armed Forces Covenant.

Her wider interests involve spending time with her family, making the most of the incredible landscape her vast and varied constituency affords and putting her passion for singing to good use by taking part in Singing for Syrians concerts in Westminster.

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.

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.

During her time in AI, she has also been involved in projects in implementing new system of records for customer onboarding and risk assessment and due diligence of third parties, working with a number of stakeholders across AI and wider Aviva. Outside of work, she enjoys simpler things in life such as spending time with her family and her two cheeky Jack Russells. In addition, she loves reading, enjoying good food and wine and has discovered a painful passion in running to eliminate the effects of the wine and dine!

Katy has worked in economic crime at the centre of the industry in various roles for nearly 30 years. Prior to becoming the Managing Director, Economic Crime at UK Finance Katy held the position of Director of Financial Fraud Action UK, one of the precursor trade associations which merged to form UK Finance.

Katy was responsible for establishing the Information & Intelligence Unit, an industry economic crime data and intelligence sharing unit,  introducing the Industry Threat Management Process (the way in which industry fraud threats are prioritised), and building the coordinated industry response to significant data loss/breaches following the HMRC data loss in 2007. She instigated the Fraud Intelligence Sharing System and helped deliver the Dedicated Card and Payment Crime Unit (DCPCU), the industry sponsored police unit, in 2002. She led the development of the Take 5 education and awareness campaign, worked with Home Office and City of London Police to establish the Joint Fraud Taskforce and advised on the setting up of the Joint Money Laundering Intelligence Taskforce (JMLIT).

Katy is co-founder and Deputy Chair of the Fraud Women's Network and received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Tackling Economic Crime Awards 2020.

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.

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.

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

Anti-money Laundering and Sanctions professional with a background gained over nine years across several sectors, including e-commerce, financial services, banking, payments and corporate. Sara has been at GlaxoSmithKline for the past four years leading their sanctions compliance programme, 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.

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.

Sinéad Goss is the General Counsel for AML, Anti-Bribery and Sanctions Legal across the UK, Europe and Middle East and Africa 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, and has been substantially involved in navigation of the Russia/Ukraine sanctions. 

Susan retrained to help underrepresented professionals reach and remain in the boardroom. She holds a Masters in Voice Studies with distinction from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, is an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC), member of the Voice and Speech Trainers Association and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Before coaching, she held Executive Committee seats at ISS A/S, Jones Lang Wootton (now JLL) and Lafarge Tarmac (now Tarmac).

Since 2016, Susan has run Make Your Mark workshops for thousands of people from over 40 countries. Clients include Accenture, Apple, ANZ, Association of Foreign Banks, Baillie Gifford, Bouygues, Citibank, Financial Times, First Sentier Investors, Grant Thornton, Northern Trust, Oracle, Skanska, Women in Banking and Finance, Värde and wefox. She also coaches leaders at Apple and partnership candidates at EY.

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.

Victoria has experience in:

• leading on large scale investigations in respect of potential US, EU and UK sanctions violations, working internationally across the US and UK;
• providing strategic advice to a range of multinationals and financial institutions regarding sanctions and AML policies and procedures;
• providing strategic advice regarding sanctions and AML remediation programmes;
• conducting independent audits and risk assessments upon AML and sanctions control frameworks;
• defending claims made under the Equality Act in so far as they relate to actions taken in alleged compliance with financial sanctions; and
• advising on the day-today application of sanctions in the context of financial transactions and arrangements.

Zahra Mashhood is Counsel in the International Trade practice at the law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, based in Dubai. Her practice focuses on UK and EU economic sanctions, export controls, ABC and AML matters. 

She advises clients 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, and has advised on bribery, corruption and money laundering matters, particularly regarding compliance with the U.K. Bribery Act and the Proceeds of Crime Act. 

With respect to sanctions, she advises on EU and U.K. sanctions advisory matters, internal and regulatory investigations, sanctions in the due diligence, M&A, private equity and banking contexts, sanctions licensing applications, and sanctions training and compliance programs. In 2022, Zahra was named to the inaugural edition of Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in the United Kingdom.