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Advisory Board

CFI is supported by experienced individuals from the private and public sectors.

Composition

CFI’s Advisory Board provides oversight and advice to the organization’s activities. The Board comprises members from RUSI’s Centre for Finance & Security (CFS) as well as Ukrainian and international anti-money laundering experts.

RUSI’s CFS

CFI draws on the expertise and support of CFS at RUSI. CFS’s work has helped to unveil the scale and complexities of international illicit finance and to identify realistic policy responses for both the public and private sectors. Since Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, CFS has worked with Ukrainian and international civil society organizations to bolster the integrity and resilience of Ukraine’s financial sector.

Two CFS representatives are Members of the Advisory Board: Kinga Redlowska, Head of CFS at RUSI Europe, chairs the Advisory Board, and Tom Keatinge, CFS Director, is a member.

CFI and CFS have signed a memorandum of understanding for three years, cementing their commitment to work together.

Kinga Redlowska

Dr Kinga Redlowska is the Head of CFS Europe and Head of CFI’s Advisory Board. She leads the Centre for Finance & Security's activities in Brussels that centre on the intersection of illicit finance and security, and are focused on the EU and its neighbourhood. The list of flagship projects implemented through the CFS Brussels office includes Euro SIFMANet (European Sanctions and Illicit Finance Monitoring and Analysis Network) and Project SMURF (Supervising and Monitoring Ukraine’s Reconstruction Funds). Prior to joining RUSI, she served as a Programme Director at the Warsaw-based Institute for Eastern Studies, the organiser of the renowned geopolitical conference Economic Forum. Kinga authored articles on Central Europe, transatlantic relations, and the US and the EU activities in sub-Saharan Africa. She is an alumna of the Denton Fellowship Program held by a Washington-based Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA). She holds an MA in American Studies and a PhD in International Relations from the University of Warsaw.

Tom Keatinge

Tom Keatinge is the founding Director of the Centre for Finance and Security (CFS) at RUSI, where his research focuses on matters at the intersection of finance and security.
• The financial dimension of state threats: the methods by which adversaries seek to undermine Western democracies and exploit their financial systems via the use of ‘active financial measures’.
• Sanctions: the effectiveness and evolution of sanctions regimes.
• Terrorist financing: the effectiveness of current approaches to terrorist financing; the use of financial intelligence as a security tool; and the evolution of terrorist financing methods and responses.
• Proliferation financing: the role of finance as a tool of disruption in combatting state and non-state actor proliferation ambitions.
• Organised crime: assessing the financial dimension of priority transnational threats, including the illegal wildlife trade, environmental crime and human trafficking.
• New approaches to tackling financial crime: the role of public/private partnership and information sharing. Tom Keatinge has contributed to a variety of publications and media outlets; has given evidence to UK parliamentary and US congressional hearings and spoken at a range of high-level multilateral forums including the UN Security Council and the Financial Action Task Force and a number of its regional bodies. View Tom Keatinge's website for external publications.

Olena Korobkova

Olena Korobkova is a seasoned professional with a career spanning over 22 years, 18 of which are in management roles across various sectors. She has held key positions such as Executive Director and Chairman of the NABU Council, deputy of the Odesa City Council (2020–2023), Advisor to the Vice Prime Minister-Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine. She has other notable experience with financial institutions such as Pivdenny Bank, IMEXBANK, MARFIN BANK and Sense Bank. Olena has played a proactive role in the development of Ukraine’s banking system, including the implementation of new reforms and best international practices in the banking sector. Furthermore, she has led successful and fruitful cooperation with international organizations such as International Monetary Fund, EBRD, World Bank, International Finance Corporation IFC, Sparkasse, USAID, GIZ, EFSE, McKinsey & Company, Finalta, GfK and many others. Olena’s educational background is also vast, having earned degrees in mathematics, law, and economics from prominent universities in Ukraine, alongside other international diplomas in governance and management. She has also completed internships and professional development programs at Sparkasse, London International Business Academy, and the Kyiv School of Economics, among others. Currently, Olena is pursuing a PhD in Political Science at I. I. Mechnikov Odesa National University.

Anton Moiseienko

Anton Moiseienko is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the Australian National University and Associate Fellow at RUSI. His work focuses on transnational crime, economic crime and sanctions. He is the author of Doing Business with Criminals, a wide-ranging account of the history of financial crime rules forthcoming with Cambridge University Press, and Corruption and Targeted Sanctions, a monograph on the legal and policy implications of ‘Magnitsky’ laws published by Brill in 2019. Anton's consultancy experience includes advising the Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative and consulting in connection with several UK government-funded projects. He also gave testimony to the Australian Senate's Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade; the UK House of Commons' International Trade Committee; Canada's Commission of Inquiry into Money Laundering in British Columbia; and the Legal Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. He was previously a Research Fellow at the Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies at RUSI. Anton is a graduate of the Kyiv National University (BA), University of Cambridge (LLM) and Queen Mary University of London (PhD).

Sergii Rybchenko

Sergii Rybchenko brings a wealth of expertise from a career that spans both public and private sectors. Beginning in Ukraine's intelligence and law enforcement agencies, Sergii garnered hands-on experience in preventing, detecting, and investigating serious and organised crimes. Transitioning to the financial sector, he further honed his knowledge and skills, particularly in economic and financial crimes from a business standpoint. His further tenure with international organizations elevated his expertise to a strategic level within the civilian security sector. Notably, Sergii provided advisory support for the establishment of a new law enforcement agency specialising in economic, financial, and tax crime investigation. He also contributed to the development and subsequent implementation of anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing legislation in Ukraine. Continuously dedicated to capacity-building, Sergii has been a steadfast contributor, delivering comprehensive training programs to law enforcement and legal practitioners throughout Ukraine.

Yurii Gaidai

Yurii Gaidai is a Senior Economist at the Centre for Economic Strategy. From 2008 to 2015, Yurii worked as an internal auditor in bank and telecom company, consultant at Ernst & Young, and financial compliance manager at GlaxoSmithKline for the region of Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Caucasus and Central Asia. From 2015 to 2021, Yurii served as the investigator at the Business Ombudsman Council of Ukraine, where he investigated and mediated the resolution of business rights violations by state bodies (tax, customs, investigative bodies); developed and monitored the implementation of systemic recommendations to state bodies, promoted the ethical business conduct and government relations culture. Since 2021, Yurii has been part of the Centre for Economic Strategy – an independent Kyiv-based economic think-tank – as a Senior Economist. He focuses on fiscal policy analysis and advisory and countering economic crimes. In his role, Yurii is an invited expert to the Parliament's Temporary Investigative Commission on economic crimes. Yurii graduated from the Kyiv National Economic University with a Master’s degree in financial engineering and analytics in banks and completed the Leadership in Public Finance Program (joint project of the Kyiv School of Economics, GIZ and the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine).

Oleksandr Hlushchenko

Oleksandr Hlushchenko is a Head of Department for Coordination of Financial Monitoring System of the State Financial Monitoring Service (FIU) of Ukraine. He is an experienced expert with a proven education, science, and public service work history. In 2009, Oleksandr defended his PhD thesis on ‘Regulatory policy of illegal entrepreneurship deterrence’ at Ivan Franko Lviv National University. Prior to joining FIU, Oleksandr was an Adviser of the Lviv Regional State Administration to the vice-chairman on financial, economic and investment policy and Associate Professor of Banking Department of the Lviv Institute of Banking of the University of Banking of the National Bank of Ukraine. Since 2017, he has been a Director of the Department for Coordination of the Financial Monitoring System of the FIU of Ukraine, a permanent member of the official delegation of Ukraine to the Committee of Experts of the Council of Europe on the Evaluation of Measures to Combat Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (MONEYVAL), a certified evaluator of the Committee of Experts of the Council of Europe MONEYVAL.

Olivia Allison

Olivia Allison is a senior advisor and analyst with more than 15 years' experience supporting the development of integrity and governance in the public and private sector. She has led projects with state-owned institutions, international companies, and international financial institution (IFIs) to counter fraud, corruption and money laundering. Since 2022, she has worked as an independent consultant, conducting research and analysis regarding illicit finance, illicit trade, and sanctions circumvention. She is an Associate Fellow at RUSI and a researcher on projects funded by the UK’s Serious Organised Crime & Anti-corruption Evidence (SOC-ACE) Research Programme. She has a wide range of financial crime and asset tracing experience from leadership roles held before 2022 in London, Kyiv, and Kazakhstan. She was a Senior Managing Director at a US-UK investigations consultancy, and previously a partner at KPMG, where she set up and led the Forensic team in Kyiv from 2016-2020. Olivia conducted a number of compliance and investigations projects for state-owned companies, including improving ethics and integrity as part of reforms in Ukraine. She was also a founding member of the board of the Ukrainian Network of Integrity and Compliance (UNIC). Her work included global anti-bribery and corruption investigations into potential Foreign Corrupt Practices Act / UK Bribery Act violations, which informed companies' reporting to regulators. She has acted as an expert witness in international arbitration on matters relating to anti-money laundering and financial crime in Ukraine, and has been recognised by Who's Who Legal for her asset tracing expertise.

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