Ann heads the Financial Crime team at Hogan Lovells, ensuring legal and consultancy teams work seamlessly on financial crime-related matters to address client needs across legal and regulatory risk, control, governance and change. Ann is a solicitor and compliance professional with over 25 years’ experience as an executive manager in financial services, specialising in financial crime. Her experience spans UK and non-UK banking and financial services groups as well as challenger banks, commodity trading, wrap platforms, innovative payments, project finance and asset management firms. Having worked for many years as General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer (including as SMF16 and SMF17), Ann understands the challenges faced by executive managers, and legal and compliance professionals. Ann’s excellent technical understanding and calm, pragmatic and strategic approach has led to her election to a number of roles at industry bodies such as UK Finance and the Association of Foreign Banks. She has been an invited delegate and speaker on financial crime matters at both the G20 and an EU expert workshop. Ann is a former recipient of the ThomsonReuters Compliance Award for Head of Anti-Money Laundering and Fraud Prevention.