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Graham has been in the financial services industry for 20 years with the last 11 years within Trade Finance as 2LoD in HSBC, Standard Chartered Bank and currently 1LoD  Financial Crime Risk Director for Trade at Citi. Graham is a member of the ICC Financial Crime Risk & Policy Working Group, co-chair of the International Trade & Forfaiting Association Financial Crime Working Group and was a co-author of the Wolfsberg, ICC, BAFT Trade Finance Principles. He holds a Professional Doctorate in Criminal Justice through Portsmouth University in the UK.    

Troy Burk is the Global Chief AML and Sanctions Officer at TIAA. He leads the Enterprise AML and Sanctions programs for TIAA, including programs for affiliated insurance companies, funds complexes, broker-dealers, investment companies, and a trust company. Prior to joining TIAA, Troy worked for several international accounting and consulting firms on a variety of compliance, due diligence, and investigative matters for major corporations, law firms, financial services institutions, and government organizations. He holds an undergraduate degree in Economics, an advanced degree in Finance, and a Juris Doctorate.

J. Edward 'Ned' Conway is the Executive Secretary of the Wolfsberg Group, an association of 12 global banks that develops frameworks and guidance for the management of financial crime risks. Ned is a member of the advisory boards for ACAMS and the Coalition for Integrity. He chairs the UN’s Private Sector Dialogue on the disruption of financial crimes related to environmental crime, which he has done since its inauguration in 2021, and collaborates regularly with the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, training financial intelligence units, central banks and supervisory authorities in the Americas, Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. Prior to moving to the Wolfsberg Group, Ned was the Global Head of Financial Crime Compliance Framework & Policies at Santander, based in Madrid, and he has also held positions at Barclays, PwC, and the US Department of Defense. He is the author of the books Counterterrorism and Threat Finance Analysis During Wartime (2015) and A Less Vivid Future (2017), with articles published in Foreign Affairs, the Wall Street Journal, and peer reviewed journals such as Energy Policy. Ned has a PhD in International Relations from the University of St Andrews (Scotland) and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Davidson College (North Carolina, USA).

Lisa Chin is a Director and the Head of Global AML Trade Finance Advisory for MUFG Bank, Ltd. since 2019. She started her trade career as an import letter of credit processor for American National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago. Surviving a number of mergers that ended up as JPMorgan Chase Bank, NA, she held various roles in trade operations for 18 years until she moved into an AML/KYC role supporting trade finance and escrow. In 2015, she moved to HSBC Bank as Senior Vice President and the U.S. Head of AML Compliance for Trade Finance, where she managed an advisory team supporting the Trade Finance department. Lisa is a member of the BAFT National Letter of Credit Committee and the co-Chair of the BAFT Trade Compliance Committee. She obtained her CDCS in 1999 and has since remained certified. In 2026, she was named as one of BAFT’s Ambassadors of the Year for her volunteer contributions.

Melissa is global head of the Know Your Customer (KYC) Risk and Advisory team within Financial Crime Compliance (FCC), responsible for developing and administering the KYC program across the firm's businesses. She joined Goldman Sachs as an associate in 2016, where she held various roles within FCC, including as head of Consumer KYC Strategy. Melissa rejoined as a vice president in 2022 and was named managing director in 2025. Prior to rejoining the firm, Melissa worked at BNY Mellon, focusing on legal data management and advisory. Earlier in her career, she worked at Gryphon Strategies. Melissa earned a BA in Political Science from Miami University in 2010 and a JD, cum laude, from Suffolk University Law School in 2013.

Magali is a managing director in the Anti-Money Laundering (AML) & Sanctions practice in Deloitte Transactions and Business Analytics LLP. She has nearly 20 years of industry experience and advises her clients on complex Bank Secrecy Act (BSA)/AML compliance matters, regulatory expectations, large-scale remediations, and leading practices. Prior to joining Deloitte, Magali served as BSA/AML Officer in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s (FRBNY) Supervision Group where she supervised examinations of 180+ banks and remediations of enforcement actions (EA). Magali has presented at many domestic/international conferences, covering strategic program/EA management leading practices and delivered AML training to C-suite and central banking officials globally. Magali previously held AML positions at various large banks in NYC. Magali holds a BA from Boston University and a JD from Washington & Lee University School of Law. She is a native English/French speaker.

Laura Miller is global head of Sanctions at Goldman Sachs and also oversees the Financial Crime Compliance Business Engagement team. She joined Goldman Sachs in 2015 as a vice president and rejoined in 2024 as a managing director. Prior to rejoining Goldman, Laura worked at Citi as Director of Sanctions Regulatory Compliance. Previously, she was a vice president at HSBC, overseeing US sanctions policy implementation from 2013 to 2015. Prior to that, Laura was a senior compliance officer at the US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control where she managed financial sector enforcement for three years. Laura is a founding member of the Women in Sanctions Network.

Mr. Kim Manchester brings his extensive background in international banking to the global financial services industry. While based in both Hong Kong and Singapore, Mr. Manchester held senior regional and global positions in corporate banking, institutional banking and capital markets for one of the world’s largest emerging markets financial institutions. Mr. Manchester returned to Canada in 2003 and founded ManchesterCF. Based in Toronto, the practice provides financial crime risk management training programs and advisory services to financial institutions and public-sector agencies. The most successful training programs from ManchesterCF include the Financial Crime Training series for international banking and the FINTEL series for financial intelligence units.

Priyank Patel serves as Deputy Chief Anti-Money Laundering Officer at KeyBank, leading AML Innovation & Intelligence. He oversees the bank's financial crime analytics, surveillance strategy, technology modernization, and intelligence functions, with a focus on leveraging artificial intelligence and advanced analytics to enhance risk detection, operational effectiveness, and regulatory compliance. A recognized industry leader in AI-enabled financial crime transformation, Priyank advises on the integration of emerging technologies across transaction monitoring, sanctions, KYC, investigations, and risk intelligence. His work centers on moving innovative solutions from pilot to production while maintaining strong governance, explainability, and regulatory accountability. Priyank brings more than 15 years of experience across financial crime compliance, analytics, technology, and risk management. He serves on the ACAMS Greater Buffalo Chapter Board and holds CAMS and CFCS certifications.

Andrea Michelle Price is a seasoned financial services executive with over thirty years of diversified experience with improving and strengthening the internal control environments of global financial institutions. Andrea’s background encompasses areas such as internal audit, bank regulatory and financial crimes compliance and cybersecurity controls to name a few. Throughout her career Andrea has achieved great success in leading and assisting in remediation efforts stemming from regulatory scrutiny, internal and external investigations and strategy efforts related to significantly increasing and upskilling human capital. Andrea’s strengths lie in developing and enhancing corporate governance structures in turn-around situations. Andrea currently serves as Managing Director and Head of Internal Audit for Nordea Bank Abp’s (Nordea) International Corporate Branches covering its corporate locations in London, New York and Shanghai which includes wholesale bank branches, broker dealer and investment management entities. Andrea serves as a non-voting member of the US Risk, AML Steering, Operational Risk, Information Security and Treasury Committees. The US Risk Committee is a sub-committee of the Board’s Risk Committee. Andrea attends all US Leadership Team meetings as an independent observer. Prior to joining Nordea, Andrea spent a number of years working in high profile senior roles at several major domestic and foreign financial institutions in the areas of Compliance and Internal Audit. She was also a Director in a Big Four firm’s Regulatory Practice where she led engagements for foreign banks that were under public and non-public supervisory enforcement actions. She spent the early part of her career as a senior regulator with the NYS Department of Financial Services.

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 25 years of experience advising US, Canadian, European and Asian large financial institutions on various Bank Secrecy Act (BSA)/AML, Sanctions, Anti-Bribery & Corruption (ABC) 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 anti-financial crime engagements in numerous countries throughout Europe, Americas and Asia Pacific.

Miriam is currently serving on the Board of Directors of the Bankers Association for Finance and Trade (BAFT) and the BAFT Executive Committee. She was recently elected as the BAFT’s Secretary/Treasurer and appointed as the BAFT’s Audit & Risk Committee Chair. Miriam is also serving as the Chair for the United for Wildlife North American Chapter.

Devora joined Citi as the Head of Technology for AML and Surveillance. Prior to Citi she served as Head of Core Processing in Wealth Management Technology at JPMC. In that role she oversaw the broker-dealer platform, delivering critical functionality to run the wealth management business. A central focus of her leadership was the modernization of the mainframe, ensuring its continued relevance, resilience, and efficiency. Prior to her tenure at JPMC, Devora honed her skills at Goldman Sachs where she specialized in building enterprise-scale platforms and leading software development teams. Devora holds a B.A. in Mathematics from Columbia University. Residing in Long Island, NY she enjoys life with her husband and five children – two daughters, two sons and one son-in-law. An enthusiastic supporter of NY sports, she proudly cheers for the Giants, Rangers and of course the Knicks.

May Serageldin is a Senior Manager in Financial Crime Advisory at RBC Royal Bank of Canada, supporting the Global Trade Finance business. She has over 15 years of experience in trade finance including trade operations, implementation, compliance and operational risk; gained across two decades of working at four different banks in Canada and internationally. May serves as Co-Chair of the BAFT Trade Finance Compliance Committee and member of the Trade Finance Committee. She has contributed to industry resources including ACAMS' Trade Finance and Trade-Based Money Laundering course and BAFT's ‘Guidance for Identifying Potentially Suspicious Activity ("Red Flags") in Trade Finance’ white paper. She has also contributed to discussions on cross-border security challenges, including a paper on trade-based money laundering related to fentanyl trafficking. May holds professional designations as a Certified Documentary Credit Specialist (CDCS) and Certified Trade Finance Compliance Specialist (CTFC).

Deepa Sinha is the Head of Payments & Financial Crimes, as well as Women in Transaction Banking 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.

Ed Stein currently serves as the Deputy Assistant Director for Enforcement at the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). In this capacity, he helps lead the division at OFAC responsible for investigating and pursuing enforcement actions against entities and individuals that violate U.S. sanctions. Before joining OFAC, Ed worked as an attorney at the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) where his work focused on FinCEN’s enforcement actions, virtual currency, and corporate transparency. Earlier in his career, Ed was an associate at an international law firm and clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Prior to attending law school, Ed worked on sanctions and AML policy in Treasury’s Office of Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes, as an international money laundering investigator at FinCEN,  and as a professional staff member for the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia. Ed holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.A. from Yale University.

David Tannenbaum started his career in sanctions compliance while serving at the Office of Foreign Assets Control’s (OFAC), the U.S. agency in charge of administering economic sanctions. In his capacity at OFAC, he oversaw the analysis of blocked and rejected transactions, and provided sanctions advice to some of the world’s largest financial institutions, Fortune 500 companies, and law firms. David created Blackstone Compliance Services, a company specializing in sanctions compliance, after joining the private sector in 2013. As the director of Blackstone, he served as the FRB-appointed independent consultant of a global financial institution and has led sanctions testing for three major monitorships on behalf of the US Department of Justice, Federal Reserve Board, New York Department of Financial Services, and foreign regulators such as the United Kingdom’s FCA and France’s APCR. His experience goes beyond representing and responding to regulators and law enforcement authorities. He frequently works with global financial institutions, commodities traders, and large corporates to develop their compliance programs and implement technology used to detect sanctions evasion and money laundering. He has done significant work for half of the global Top-10 financial institutions and has conducted many complex investigations spanning multiple jurisdictions where he untangled complicated sanctions networks used by North Korea, Iran, Syria, and Russia. David is also a leading expert in maritime-related sanctions, sanctions evasion, and other illicit maritime activities that utilize deceptive shipping practice. He currently serves as the director of Deep Blue Intelligence, a joint program between Blackstone and Pole Star Global, another maritime intelligence company, which identifies vessels engaged in misconduct, evaluates and creates methods to identify and defeat deceptive shipping practice such as location spoofing, and conducts complex investigations on behalf of global financial institutions and commodities traders. David graduated magna cum laude with an MBA and a Masters in United States Foreign Policy from American University. He also holds a bachelor’s degree in international studies from American University.

As part of OFAC’s Compliance division, Nikole is responsible for implementing U.S. economic sanctions through outreach to and engagement with public and private sector partners. Nikole regularly advises and educates on a variety of matters relating to compliance with U.S. economic sanctions programs. Nikole has been with OFAC since 2014. Prior to her recent move to the Compliance division, Nikole spent the last decade serving in a variety of roles at OFAC related to sanctions licensing and targeting.