INTERVIEW
Oksana Ihnatenko:
Fighting financial crime in Ukraine
Before university, I was torn between studying law and journalism ― and only now do I realize how perfectly I’ ve combined both in the AFC space, which requires skills from both areas
Oksana Ihnatenko, CAMS, is a managing director at the Center for Financial Integrity( CFI) in Ukraine and a researcher for the Supervising and Monitoring Ukraine’ s Reconstruction Funds( SMURF) project at the Centre for Finance and Security( CFS) at the Royal United Services Institute( RUSI). Her research focuses on Ukraine’ s adherence to Financial Action Task Force( FATF) standards, fighting financial crime, anti-money laundering( AML) efforts and issues surrounding reconstruction.
Prior to joining RUSI, Ihnatenko worked in the private sector in Ukraine, law firms in Poland, and in the U. K. She also had an internship with the Clooney Foundation for Justice working on the investigation of war crimes in Ukraine.
Ihnatenko holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and a Master of Laws degree in International Business Law from the London School of Economics. Her dissertation focused on the sanctions regime and legal ways to seize Russian frozen assets to fund Ukraine’ s reconstruction.
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