Alison Clew is an executive leader who has strategically steered multinational financial institutions to achieve innovative compliance risk management solutions. Alison is recognized as a domestic and international expert in financial crime compliance by governments around the world. Her leadership has protected financial institutions from banking bad actors and elevated the safety of the global financial system. Alison is an expert in using artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to drive large-scale operational transformation. Alison brings extensive corporate governance experience, as an independent director at Rabobank North America, where she chairs the Risk Committee and is a member of the Audit Committee, her board service to Sigma 360 and through her close work with Citi’s boards of directors.

She is also active in the public policy arena, through advocacy led by the Global Coalition to Fight Financial Crime and previous contributions to research by the Royal United Services Institute’s Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies. Alison is an advisory board member with Duality Technologies, which provides privacy-enhancing encryption capabilities for securely collaborating on sensitive data across organizations’ ecosystems.

Alison served as the Global Head of Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Compliance at Citigroup, collaborating with and advising executive management, government officials and peers to simplify and accelerate technology-driven processes in fighting financial crime and reforming compliance regulations. Alison increased Citi’s support of law enforcement priorities; these contributions were recognized by multiple commendations from the Annual US Department of Treasury Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FINCEN) Director’s Law  Enforcement Awards and by several foreign governments. Previously, at Deloitte, Alison was the Global & US Leader of the AML and Sanctions Consulting Practice.