Owais is a Director at RBC and provides strategic advice to its Global Economic Sanctions program. Mr. Arshad’s advisory work at RBC encompasses capital markets, wealth management, investment custodian services and, block chain enabled digital assets. He has written widely on sanctions related topics, and regularly presents on geopolitics, and the evolution of global sanctions regimes.

Rich is a Bloomberg LP Financial Sanctions Data Manager who is responsible for the acquisition, validation, maintenance, and quality assurance of ten jurisdictions including US OFAC, UK OFSI, United Nations, and the European Union. Rich has lead Bloomberg’s sanction global data teams efforts since the implementation of sectoral sanctions in 2014. He is Data Management Capability Assessment Model (DCAM) Certified V2 and a member of the Association of Certified Sanction Specialists.

Roberto Soprano is the Global Director for Trade Compliance at Firmenich. He specialized in sanctions, non-proliferation and WTO law and policies and has practiced in multinational companies, law firms and a Big4 consultancy firm. He has acted as consultant to International Organizations and European institutions on trade matters including the World Bank and the European Parliament. A lawyer by training, he graduated in law from the University of Milan and holds a master in WTO law and policy from the World Trade Institute in Switzerland. He is a Professor Associado at the Law School of the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona and a has been a Guest Professor of International Economic Law at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

An Energy, Maritime and International Trade lawyer, she is a Certified Sanctions Specialist. She graduated with a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from Wales and obtained a Master of Laws (LL.M.) with Merit from Queen Mary University of London and University College London.

Rebecca specialises in international business law and she has about 20 years’ experience as a compliance lawyer, advising on sanctions regimes of US OFAC, UK OFSI, United Nations, and the European Union, international trade, export, import and cross border transactions. She started as a litigation and corporate lawyer with the Global Ernst & Young Law. She then went on to become the General Counsel & Head of Compliance (including Sanctions) in various public listed corporations; listed in United States, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia.