ACSS Webinar by LexisNexis: Combating Wildlife Trafficking Through Collaboration - Association of Certified Sanctions Specialists

Combating Wildlife Trafficking Through Collaboration

February 29, 2024 | 07:00 AM – 08:15 AM NYC

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Duration:

75 minutes

Speakers:

  • Jonny Bell
  • Patricia Raxter

Moderator:

Alexander Witt CSS, Sanctions & Export Controls Consultant, ACSS

Date:

Thursday, February 29, 2024

Time:

  • 07:00 AM – 08:15 AM NYC
  • 12:00 PM – 01:15 PM London
  • 01:00 PM – 02:15 PM Amsterdam

Description:

This webinar will dive deeper into the topics covered in a joint report published by LexisNexis® Risk Solutions and United for Wildlife.

What attendees will learn:

  • The scale and severity of the illegal wildlife trafficking trade
  • How wildlife trafficking is tied to other financial crimes
  • What adverse media and enforcement data tells us about high-risk species and corridors
  • What we are seeing on the front line
  • How collaboration between public and private organizations is crucial to identifying red flags and fighting this transnational crime

Certificate of Attendance:

All active ACSS membership will be able to download the certificate from the Learning Management System (under the achievements tab). 

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Speakers

Jonny Bell

Director of Financial Crime Compliance
LexisNexis® Risk Solutions
Jonny Bell holds commercial and strategic responsibility for financial crime and compliance portfolio for LexisNexis® Risk Solutions across the Middle East, Africa, CEE, CIS and EMEA strategic accounts. With more than nine years’ experience working in financial services, technology, compliance risk and strategy consulting, Bell applies his extensive project management expertise and experience towards driving business profitability and maintaining effective organic growth. Bell began his career working with top global financial institutions focusing on horizontal functions including risk, compliance and technology. Following four years of consulting, he went on to work for London Stock Exchange Group (Refinitiv), where his most recent role was head of business operations and strategy for the risk division. Bell holds a degree in archaeology and ancient history from the University of Nottingham, where he was also athletic union president. A keen sportsman, Jonny is a professional rugby league player with the London Skolars Rugby League. Today Bell lives in Dubai with his wife. In his free time, he enjoys playing most sports, reading and travelling.

Patricia Raxter

Director of Intelligence and Analysis- Illegal Wildlife Trade
United for Wildlife

An expert on wildlife trafficking with fifteen years of experience as an intelligence analyst, Tricia has authored more than 140 Alerts for the United for Wildlife Intelligence Bulletin and five regional wildlife trafficking risk profiles. She regularly collaborates with UfW Partners and Members across all of the regional chapters, deepening engagements to drive counter wildlife trafficking projects. Before coming to United for Wildlife in 2020, Tricia served as a socio-cultural analyst for the United States Africa Command and the Department of the Army.

Moderator

Alexander Witt CSS

Sanctions & Export Controls Consultant
ACSS

Alexander Witt is a Sanctions & Export Control Consultant for the Association of Certified Sanctions Specialists (ACSS). He is an expert in EU, US, and German Sanctions and Export Control Laws and Regulations. Previously Alexander worked as a Sanctions & Export Control Consultant at Full Circle Compliance and as an Export Compliance Officer at Fujifilm Europe in the Netherlands.

Customer Testimonials

“I really appreciated the detail and references on the slides, very helpful”.

Scott Kinney, CAMS

Compliance Manager Global Sanctions Group, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.

“Great job. Very informative”.

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Senior Compliance Analyst Compliance and Risk Investigations and Analysis, Convera