About this speaker
Olivia has more than 15 years' experience investigating illicit finance and trade, both in the private sector and for policymakers. Her recent publications have focused on how financial institutions implement trade sanctions, third-country sanctions evasion and circumvention, and Russian illicit finance in occupied territories (launched 14 May 2025). Her ongoing and forthcoming work includes a paper on infrastructure and illicit trade in the Black Sea, and a project to support financial institutions' compliance with trade-related sanctions through the Sanctions Evasion and Circumvention Typologies Alerts (SECTA) research project.
