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Stephen Alsace has over 20 years’ experience providing advice on financial crime, AML and sanctions issues. He recently assumed the role of Global Head of Sanctions at RBC in May of last year. Prior to joining RBC, Stephen was a Director in the Global Investigations and Compliance practice of Guidehouse consulting since 2018. While at Guidehouse, Stephen led projects relating to AML and sanctions gap assessments for global financial services and digital asset clients, and was embedded as a Senior Leader on the Compliance Team for a global payments service provider. Stephen also spent over 18 years at CIBC, starting in the Legal Department as the lead lawyer on AML and Sanctions, then as the Global Head of Sanctions and Terrorist Financing. Stephen has spoken at numerous conferences in Canada, the US and UK on sanctions matters, provided sanctions and terrorist financing instruction to the RCMP, FBI and MI-5, and has testified as an industry expert on sanctions matters Canadian Parliamentary and Senate Subcommittees in 2017 and 2022. Stephen has law degrees from the University of Windsor and University of Detroit Mercy and a Master’s degree on European Integration from the University of Strasbourg.

Chris leads the Deloitte Forum for Tackling Illicit Finance, coordinating the Firm’s thought leadership on key financial crime issues including asset recovery, transparency of beneficial ownership and improving the effectiveness of the financial crime framework through innovations including public private partnership and information sharing utilities. He has published numerous papers including with the Institute of International Finance and as rapporteur for the Global Coalition to Fight Financial Crime. He also works extensively with public sector clients on national AML reform programmes. Chris joined Deloitte after 17 years with the UK National Crime Agency, where he was national Threat Lead for Money Laundering and where he established and led the Joint Money Laundering Intelligence Taskforce.

Rob Campbell leads United for Wildlife (UfW) on behalf of The Royal Foundation of The Prince and Princess of Wales. UfW provides a platform to convene the public, private and third sectors, alongside policymakers to promote cross-industry and cross-border efforts required to eradicate the illegal wildlife trade (IWT) for good. Its Transport Taskforce was established in 2014 and more recently, Financial Taskforce in 2018, both act to make recommendations on how those industries can best respond to the crisis represented by IWT. The Taskforces have been successful in disrupting IWT supply chains, and the sometimes “untouchable” criminal networks behind it. Most prominently UfW supported the break-up of the largest ivory trafficking network in East Africa in June 2019, and more recently have supported more than 500 law enforcement investigations globally.

Peter is a partner in Deloitte Forensic with more than 23 years of experience working with clients in conducting internal investigations and providing advice regarding anti-fraud and anti-corruption compliance frameworks to enhance accountability, transparency, and governance. His specialties include working with international organizations in post-crisis environments, and he has worked in more than 35 countries as well as the United Nations. Peter also once led the forensic services unit at World Bank Group, investigating international fraud and corruption procurement in projects financed by the World Bank. Peter is the past chair of Transparency International—Canada and a current faculty member of the Director’s Education Program at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, where he lectures about the governance of internal investigations and financial crime prevention. Early in his career, he worked with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s commercial crime unit.

Bahar is a Partner in Deloitte’s Financial Crime Practice with 13+ years of experience assisting financial institutions with assessing and transforming their AML programs and controls from design to implementation. She leads complex, cross-functional programs to enhance risk detection and transaction monitoring capabilities, including risk assessments, control effectiveness and TM model reviews, large-scale KYC remediation programs, transaction monitoring reviews/lookbacks, and multifaceted business investigations.

Emmanuelle Klassen works as Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Officer with UNODC’s Global Programme Against Money Laundering, Proceeds of Crime, and the Financing of Terrorism. She joined UNODC in 2019 and is responsible for the implementation of counter-terrorist financing technical assistance in Central and Eastern Africa. Prior to joining UNODC, Emmanuelle worked as an Analyst with Global Affairs Canada. She holds an MA in Terrorism, Security and Society from King’s College London.

Miriam Ratkovicova is a Managing Director in the Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Sanctions practice of Deloitte Transactions and Business Analytics LLP. She has more than 20 years of experience advising US, Canadian, European and Asian large financial institutions on various Bank Secrecy Act (BSA)/AML, Sanctions, Anti-Bribery & Corruption and other Financial Crime compliance matters. Specifically, Miriam has led multiple large and complex projects involving historical transaction investigations, Know Your Customer (KYC) remediations, AML and Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) risk assessments, and customer risk ratings. Miriam has delivered AML/Sanctions engagements in numerous countries throughout Europe, including Germany, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Latvia, Romania, Bulgaria, Russia, Ukraine, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Italy, Spain, Portugal, UK, Cyprus and Slovakia. Currently, Miriam is serving several large financial institutions based in China, Japan, Singapore and Malaysia.

Deepa Sinha is the new Vice President of Payments and Financial Crime at BAFT, and will work to advance the goals of the payments and cash management industry through standardization, defining best practices and developing usable industry data. She will also be responsible for formulating policy recommendations and educating industry stakeholders including practitioners, regulators, policymakers and the broader business community. Prior to joining BAFT, Sinha accumulated more than 25 years of treasury and cash management experience at both corporations and banks. She formerly served as Treasurer at Caliburn International, now Acuity International, where she oversaw cash forecasting, working capital and debt management, and implemented policies and banking technology to support all core treasury functions. As the Associate Vice President of Banking Operations and Relationships at the Carlyle Group, she developed the cash management, FX and banking platforms, and built and managed the infrastructure for multicurrency cash management across 5,000+ bank accounts at more than 100 global banks. She also served on both the JPMorgan Chase Treasury and Wells Fargo Treasury Advisory Councils.