Co-Chair

Erich Ferrari

Founder and Principal Attorney Ferrari & Associates, PC

Government Speakers

Dan Clutch

Deputy Director, Office of Export Enforcement
U.S. Department of Commerce
Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS)

Aaron Forsberg

Director, Office of Economic Sanctions Policy and Implementation
Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs (EB)
U.S. Department of State

Michael P. Grady

Chief, Bank Integrity Unit
Money Laundering & Asset Recovery Section
Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice

Industry Speakers

Michelle Connelly

VP, Legal, Global Sanctions & Regulatory Crédit Agricole CIB

James Cousins

Head, US Sanctions Program Management & OFAC Reporting Standard Chartered Bank

Ryan Donohue

Managing Director, Legal and Compliance Morgan Stanley

Eddie Fishman

Senior Research Scholar Columbia University Former Policy Planner, U.S. State Department

Bahman Farahdel

Global Head of Sanctions, Trade and ESG Compliance Bloomberg LP

Brian Grant

Global Head of Financial Crimes Compliance Operations & Global Head of Sanctions Compliance MUFG Former Director, Office of Global Affairs, U.S. DOT

Peter Harrell

Non-Resident Fellow Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Former Senior Director for International Economics and Competitiveness, The White House

Ginny Hildreth

Director, Financial Crime Legal Barclays

Laurence Hull

Senior Counsel, Global Trade Legal Applied Materials

Madina Israilova

Deputy Head of Sanctions, Americas UBS

Brendan Leddy

First Vice President, Global Anti-Money Laundering & Sanctions United Nations Federal Credit Union

Brandon Lee

Vice President, Government Sanctions Group PNC

Max Lerner

Managing Director, Global Head, Sanctions Compliance & Anti-Bribery and Corruption Compliance State Street

Malissa Lewis

Director, Head of Sanctions Advisory Societe Generale Corporate and Investment Banking

Michael Pantschyschak

Director, Global Trade Licensing & Sanctions BAE Systems, Inc.

Alexander Parets

Head of Global Sanctions and Trade Compliance and Enterprise Screening Capital One

Monica Peters

Global Head of Sanctions & Interdictions Western Union

Polina Samuel

SVP, Head of U.S. Sanctions Advisory HSBC

Howard Spieler

Business Sanctions Risk Officer, Banking and International Citi

Samantha Sultoon

SVP, Senior Financial Crimes Director Truist Former Director for Threat Finance & Sanctions, The White House

Grant Vickers

Global Head of Sanctions Program Risk & Governance TD Former Policy Advisor, U.S. DOT

Jinzi Wu

Director, Global Sanctions Analytics PayPal

Law Firm Speakers

Andrew C. Adams

Partner Steptoe LLP
Former Director, Task Force KleptoCapture
U.S. Department of Justice

Andrea T. Al-Attar

Principal The Law Office of Andrea T. Al-Attar, P.C. Former Section Chief, Licensing Division, OFAC,
U.S. Department of the Treasury

Brad Brooks-Rubin

Partner Arktouros PLLC Former Senior Advisor, U.S. Department of State

Anden Chow

Partner MoloLamken LLP Former Assistant United States Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York

Stephanie Brown Cripps

Partner Freshfields US LLP

Bijan Ganji

Partner Milbank LLP

Adam M. Smith

Partner Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP Former Senior Advisor, U.S. Department of the Treasury

Eric S. Volkman

Partner Latham & Watkins LLP