Advisory Board
Michaela Arndt
Head, Sanctions Compliance, Americas and Group Head, US Sanctions Standard, Chartered Bank
Michaela Arndt is Head, Sanctions Compliance, Americas and Group Head, US Sanctions at Standard Chartered Bank in New York. Ms. Arndt is responsible for the overall development, maintenance and oversight of US Sanctions and anti-boycott compliance efforts.
Bryan Early, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Political Science Department, University at Albany
Early is an Associate Professor in the Political Science Department, the Director of the Center for Policy Research (CPR), and the founding Director of the Project on International Security, Commerce, and Economic Statecraft (PISCES).
Jonathan Brewer, Ph.D.
Visiting Professor, King’s College London, UK
Dr Brewer is a visiting Professor at King’s College, London, an Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, London, and an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security, Washington, DC.
Kenneth Barden
Senior Governance and Anti-Corruption Officer
Prior to joining USAID, Barden was a consultant for international development projects, including ones funded by USAID, World Bank, UN, and Asian Development Bank.
Michael Bowes
Expert in civil and criminal “cross-over” work, Deputy High Court Judge, Head of Outer Temple Chambers
Michael Bowes QC is highly regarded as an expert in civil and criminal “cross-over” work. He is praised as “one of the few specialist criminal practitioners in this area” (Legal 500 2015). Michael is a Deputy High Court Judge (Queen’s Bench Division) and is a joint head of Outer Temple Chambers.
Victoria E. Fimea
SVP Legal Counsel and Head of Regulatory Department North America Artex Risk Solutions, Inc.
Victoria E. Fimea is Senior Vice President, Legal Counsel and Head of Regulatory Department – North America, for Artex Risk Solutions, Inc. She manages and leads the regulatory and claims departments and is a member of the senior management team.
Debra Geister
Manager Section 2 Financial Intelligence Solutions, LLC
Debra Geister is Manager and CEO of Section 2 Financial Intelligence Solutions. Section 2 (S2) focuses exclusively on the tracking and documentation of the “hybrid threat.”
Tyler Hand
VP – Head of Global Sanctions and Interdiction Western Union
Tyler Hand is Western Union’s Vice President, Head of Global Sanctions and Interdiction. Tyler’s responsibilities with Western Union include overseeing the company’s Office of Foreign Assets Control and other government sanctions compliance programs.
Peter Jeydel
Associate at Steptoe & Johnson LLP
Mr. Jeydel’s practice focuses on US economic sanctions and export controls, including the sanctions regulations of the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), and the export control regulations of the Departments of Commerce and State.
Nadiya Nychay
Partner at Dentons
Ms. Nychay is a Partner at the Brussels office of Dentons, and an expert on international trade law, dispute resolution, including in the WTO, and regulatory matters.
Michelle Turner Roberts
Counsel Berliner, Corcoran & Rowe, LLP
Ms. Roberts is an associate in the export controls and sanctions practice at Berliner, Corcoran & Rowe. She counsels clients on export controls, economic sanctions, and related regulatory matters before the Departments of Commerce, Treasury, and State.
Jacqueline Santos
Senior Vice President Enterprise Compliance Bank Secrecy/Anti-Money Laundering and Sanctions at PNC Bank
Ms. Santos is responsible for Global Sanctions and AML Regulatory control programs at PNC Bank. As Senior Vice President and Enterprise Sanctions Officer, she is responsible for managing the compliance teams that support Sanctions Compliance.
Liana Sebastian
Head of Global Trade Compliance Google
As of February 2018, Liana Sebastian is head of the global trade compliance legal team at Google. Prior to her current role, she was senior export compliance counsel at Google focusing on US export controls and trade sanctions compliance.
Salvatore Scotto
SVP Legal and Compliance - Head of Sanctions Bank of China, USA
Salvatore provides sanctions consulting services to financial institutions, law firms, US government, and commercial enterprises. He was the former Head of US Economic Sanctions at HSBC North America Holdings, where he built a comprehensive sanctions program with centralized client and transactional sanction alert clearing teams
Jan J.H. Verloop
Trade Control Officer (retired) at Shell International
Mr.Verloop graduated in Mechanical Engineering and Business Administration, before he joined Shell in 1975.Until September 2016, he was Trade Control Officer at Shell International.