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Forum Overview
Dates: November 6 - 8, 2024
Location: Surrey, United Kingdom
The Steering Committee welcomes up to 44 senior in-house practitioners and leading advisors who specialize in financial crime and sanctions risk for financial institutions. Participants are drawn from across the United Kingdom and Europe with a complement of selected representatives from abroad.
Using candid, seminar-style discussions at this annual meeting, the group shares the most pressing issues they face and examines trends and developments across jurisdictions to learn how others address these problems and work together to identify solutions.
2024 Steering Committee
Committee Co-Chairs
Committee Members
Jessica Bartlett is the Global Head of Financial Crime Legal for Barclays and manages a cross jurisdictional legal team advising the Bank (its business lines, functions, and senior management) on issues arising from the impact of financial crime laws including economic/trade sanctions and restrictions, export controls, anti-money laundering, and anti-corruption. Previously, Jessica was the APAC Director for Financial Crime Legal for Barclays and a senior associate at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer based in Hong Kong. Before relocating to Hong Kong in early 2015, Jessica was an associate at Freshfields and Shearman & Sterling based in New York City. Jessica clerked for the Honorable Sidney H. Stein, District Judge for the Southern District of New York. Jessica graduated summa cum laude with a Juris Doctor from the University of Illinois. She also holds a Master of Arts in Philosophy from Brandeis University, and Bachelor of Arts degrees in Art History and Political Science from Southern Methodist University. In 2020/2021, Jessica served on and chaired the Board of Governors for the American Chamber of Commerce Hong Kong.
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