Master of Laws (LL.M.), Law | Lund University, Sweden.
Juris Doctor (J.D.), Law | University of Sydney, Australia
Political Science & International Relations | Bachelor of Science (BSc), Francis Marion University, United States
Professional Experience
Integrity, Risk, and Compliance Specialist with over 15 years of international experience designing and strengthening institutional integrity, governance, and risk management frameworks across Asia-Pacific, Europe, and North America. Extensive experience advising Globally Systemically Important Financial Institutions (G-SIFIs), Fortune 500 organisations, and government entities on managing complex integrity and financial crime risks in highly regulated and high-risk environments.
Recent Roles:
Chief Compliance Officer
Viaplay Group AB | Jun 2023 - March 2026
Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Principal for the organisation’s global integrity and risk management efforts across 20+ B2B and direct-to-consumer markets. Led three second-line compliance divisions: Corporate Compliance & Whistleblowing, Third-Party Risk Management, and Data Privacy, Protection, & AI Governance.
Senior Advisor, Principal for KYC and Third Party Risk Management
Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Member of the Risk & Compliance Leadership Team, with full accountability for the Third-Party Risk Management Practice. Advised clients across various key markets, including Financial Services, Telecommunications, Automotive, and Industrial Machinery.
Senior Legal Counsel (Secondment), Legal and Compliance Department
Morgan Stanley | Oct 2016 - Nov 2019
Asia-Pacific (APAC)
Seconded full-time into the APAC Legal & Compliance Division to support a multi-year reorganisation of the Financial Crime Risk Management (FCRM) function across the Investment & Corporate Banking (ICB) business spanning 6 APAC jurisdictions (excl. Japan). This included structural governance work to set up consolidated APAC FCRM and Legal functions to perform ongoing KYC, EDD, and contract management responsibilities.
Legal Counsel
Hudson Investment Group Ltd.
Jan 2016 - Sep 2016 ·
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Directed the full spectrum of regulatory compliance for Australia’s corporate scheme, managing all monitoring and reporting obligations under key legislation and the ASX Listing Rules. I ensured organisation-wide compliance while also overseeing the legal, integrity due diligence, and corporate governance functions for the parent company and its subsidiaries, including leading KY3P and EDD compliance.
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Designing Tech-Enabled, integrated Integrity Systems
By treating integrity systems as critical institutional infrastructure rather than standalone compliance functions, I help organisations and governments proactively detect, prevent, and mitigate corruption, fraud, sanctions exposure, and broader financial crime risks while reinforcing long-term institutional legitimacy and stakeholder trust.
My approach focuses on building interconnected governance and oversight frameworks with clearly defined gatekeepers, accountability structures, internal controls, and assurance mechanisms that strengthen institutional resilience, enhance transparency, and support ethical decision-making across complex operating environments.
Institutional Capacity Building Extending Beyond Conventional Training and Awareness Programmes.
Working alongside organisational psychologists, ethicists, senior executives, and operational leadership, I help institutions treat culture as a strategic risk discipline — making it measurable, governable, and directly linked to institutional resilience, public trust, and long-term legitimacy.
My approach recognises that sustainable integrity cannot be achieved through policies and awareness initiatives alone. Instead, it requires the deliberate design of governance structures, incentives, leadership accountability, and organisational behaviours that shape institutional culture over time. This requires developing scalable integrity ecosystems that strengthen accountability, enhance ethical decision-making, and improve institutional capacity to withstand corruption, misconduct, governance failures, and broader integrity-related threats.
Financial Crime and Compliance Assurance Reviews (FCR & CAR)
These reviews extend beyond technical compliance assessments to evaluate whether governance structures, control environments, oversight mechanisms, and organisational behaviours are effectively supporting institutional resilience and integrity objectives.
My approach combines regulatory expertise, operational experience, behavioural risk analysis, and technology-enabled assessment methodologies to identify control gaps, governance weaknesses, and systemic vulnerabilities across anti-corruption, AML/CTF, sanctions, fraud prevention, and third-party risk domains. The outcome is a set of actionable, risk-based recommendations designed to strengthen institutional accountability, mitigate prohibited practices, improve assurance capabilities, and reinforce long-term institutional trust and resilience
Know Your Customer (KYC) and Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD)
Leveraging AI-driven tools, advanced analytics, and automated monitoring capabilities, I help institutions enhance customer and third-party risk assessments, identify high-risk relationships, improve adverse media and behavioural analysis, and strengthen ongoing monitoring across complex global environments.
My approach integrates governance, data quality, model oversight, and operational accountability into the due diligence lifecycle to ensure that KYC and EDD processes operate not merely as regulatory obligations, but as core components of institutional trust architecture and enterprise risk resilience. This includes strengthening controls related to anti-corruption, AML/CTF, sanctions exposure, beneficial ownership transparency, politically exposed persons (PEPs), and third-party integrity risks.
AI and Data Governance for Compliance Tools and Workflows
By integrating technology governance with institutional integrity objectives, I help organisations modernise compliance infrastructures while reinforcing resilience, strengthening public and stakeholder trust, and mitigating emerging governance and operational risks associated with AI adoption.
My approach focuses on embedding AI governance, data governance, model oversight, and risk controls into compliance tools and operational workflows to ensure that technology-enabled integrity systems remain explainable, auditable, and aligned with legal, ethical, and institutional accountability requirements.