PANEL SPEAKERS

Austin John (Moderator)
Senior Product Manager
Lloyd’s List Intelligence

Austin John is a Senior Product Manager at Lloyd’s List Intelligence. With over 15 years’ experience Austin has worked closely with blue chip organisations globally to create market leading solutions, driven at assessing and identifying maritime risk quickly and simply.

Louie Vargas
Financial Crime & Sanctions Specialist
Danske Bank

Louie Vargas is a Principal Sanctions Compliance Officer with Danske Bank based in Copenhagen. Previously, he has worked for J.P. Morgan Chase, Agricultural Bank of China, and Deutsche Bank based out of New York City. Currently, he is focusing on controls and technology but has previously focused on other areas within Sanctions such as transaction/customer screening, reporting to OFAC, and list management activities just to name a few. Louie is passionate about learning from and sharing information with others.

Joseph Byrne
Research Analyst
RUSI

Joe is a Research Analyst in the Proliferation and Nuclear Policy Team at RUSI. His research covers sanctions evasion activity, open source and geospatial intelligence.