Ruth Helena Alves da Mota is a Research Team Lead for World-Check. Prior to that, she was a learning consultant responsible for training World-Check research analysts across various global locations.

She has over 7 years of OSINT research expertise on Politically Exposed Persons, transnational organised crime, financial crimes and human trafficking.

She has recently been a guest speaker at the Interpol Project PROTEGER’s Regional Workshop on Financial Investigations related to migrant smuggling and is one of the representatives of Refinitiv at the South African Anti-Money Laundering Task Force (SAMLIT). 

Che Sidanius is the Global Head of Financial Crime & Industry Affairs at Refinitiv (an LSEG business). His role is to identify regulatory changes and lead programs of action with the sole purpose of enhancing the fight against financial crime more effective and delivering the best possible outcome for the industry. Together with the World Economic Forum and Europol, he’s the founder of the Global Coalition to Fight Financial Crime and Co-Chair of the B20’s Integrity and Compliance Taskforce. 

Prior to joining Refinitiv, his work experiences include being a Senior Advisor to the Bank of England's Financial Stability Directorate and previously a Senior Bank Examiner at the Federal Reserve Bank of NY. His most notable awards included receiving the Presidential Award for managing the 2007-09 Financial Crisis and a driving force behind Refinitiv’s Impact Company of the year award in 2019 and contributor to the same award in 2021. 

Che received his Master’s in International Affairs from the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University and undergraduate degree in Political Science from UC Berkeley in California. 

Adv Xolisile Khanyile is a career prosecutor having served different roles in law enforcement agencies for a period of 23 years.  She was appointed by the President of South Africa as a Director of Public Prosecutions (“DPP”) for a period of 8 years, 2 years in the South Gauteng Division as the Acting DPP and 6 years in the Free State Division as the DPP.

Since January 2018, she holds the position of Director of the Financial Intelligence Centre (the FIC) of South Africa where she is responsible for the strategic and operational functioning of the FIC ensuring the fulfillment of its mandate both domestically and internationally.

As part of her duties as Director, Adv Khanyile represents both the FIC and the Government of South Africa at various international events, allowing her to build necessary relationships with essential stakeholders.

Adv Khanyile holds a B Juris and a LLB degree from the University of Zululand, MDP from the Business School of the University of Free State (UFS) and a LLM from the UFS respectively. She attended the Duke University African Women Charted Accountants’ Women Leading Africa Programme in 2015 and graduated in 2016. She also attended the 4th Innovative Road Safety Management Leadership Programme in Melbourne, Australia in 2015.

Rozanne Gany has been the head of Financial Crime Compliance for South and Southern Africa for Standard Chartered Bank for the last 5 years. Prior to joining SCB, Rozanne held several senior Compliance roles at Barclays Africa/Absa across Investment Banking, Corporate and Retail Compliance.  

A legal graduate and admitted attorney, with a masters in banking and insurance law and a Diploma in Islamic Finance, Rozanne has over 15 years of experience in the banking industry, both locally and internationally.

Rozanne is a steerco member of SA’s public private partnership SAMLIT and currently chairs the SAMLIT’s Expert Working Group on the Financial Flows associated with Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking. The Expert Working Group will be releasing their research report in Q1 this year which explores the extent to which the Financial Services sector has a role to play in combatting Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking, provides indicators which banks can use to better detect and monitor suspicious activity related to MSHT and articulates various recommendations to be adopted by the country.

Evita Situma is an enthusiastic and dynamic AML professional with a 9 years of varied experience in AML activities including regulation of sectors (financial and non-financial),  developing typologies, AML/TF methodologies, KYC processes, Enhanced Due Diligence, Remediation and QA functions. As well as working with local and international stakeholders on a variety of levels as part of my regulatory compliance responsibilities in the public sector. Evita currently holds a CAMS, CGSS certification and is currently busy with a Masters in Corruption and Governance through the University of Sussex. 

Evan Cupido is the Project Manager for Stronger Together in South Africa. An organisation that supports businesses to address the risk of forced labour and labour trafficking within their operations and supply chains through effective human rights due diligence. Evan has a deep understanding of Trafficking in Persons related to migrant, temporary and seasonal labour. He has engaged widely across the public and private sector on labour trafficking including engaging retailers/buyers, industry associations, victim support organisations and government departments. 

Carina Coetzee is a Senior Public Prosecutor at the Sexual Offences & Community Affairs (SOCA) unit of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA).

Ms Coetzee had successfully prosecuted many cases in the High and Regional Courts of sexual offences, trafficking in persons, where children were victims of abuse and/or neglect, and commercial offences that included so-called 419 scams.

Ms Coetzee trains prosecutors, members of SAPS and other relevant stakeholders on a national level on sexual offences and trafficking of persons, including social context relating to victimisation and perpetration of these offences. Ms Coetzee also trains medical professionals, social workers and psychologists on sexual offences, GBVF offences, non-accidental baby injuries and expert evidence. 

MAJOR GENERAL EBRAHIM AHMED KADWA is the Provincial Head: Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation in Gauteng.  In this capacity he has overall responsibility for providing leadership and management in the prevention, combating and investigation of National Priority Offences such as serious corruption, serious commercial crime, serious organised crime and terrorism across Gauteng. He has 37 years’ service in the South African Police Service and  extensive experience at both operational and frontline level in environments such as intelligence, narcotics enforcement and transnational organised crime operations. Major General has also directly supervised high level operations targeting human smuggling and human trafficking related activities.

Mr Christopher Malan is Executive Manager of the Compliance and Prevention Division at the Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC), the national financial intelligence unit in South Africa, with responsibility for monitoring the national state of supervision, and inspections, by supervisory bodies and status of compliance of accountable and reporting institutions, and affected persons, in terms of the Financial Intelligence Centre Act, 2001 (FIC Act).

Mr Malan has designed the strategic and operational framework for the public private financial information sharing partnership, comprising the FIC, Prudential Authority, and banks, operationalised as the South African Anti Money Laundering Integrated Taskforce (SAMLIT), in December 2019.

Mr Malan is a former National Treasury Chief Director of Financial Regulation who finalised the AML/CFT policy and regulatory regime, including stakeholder consultations, oversaw the passage of the FIC Bill through Parliament, and advised then Minister of Finance, the Honourable Dr Trevor Manuel, on the establishment of the FIC.

He is co-chair of the Inter-Departmental Committee on Beneficial Ownership Transparency (IDC BOT) (a Cabinet endorsed IDC) to design and implement a national BOT registry framework in South Africa.

Mr Malan, as financial sector expert, participated in the FATF Mutual Evaluation Assessment of Australia in 2005, and the FATF Mutual Evaluation Assessment of Finland, in 2018.

Mr Christopher Malan holds the BA (Political Studies & Roman Dutch Law), LLB and LLM (Advanced Company Law & Maritime Law) degrees and Postgraduate Diploma in Tax Law (University of Cape Town), and Postgraduate Diploma in Economic Principles (SOAS, University of London). He attended the Program on the Global Financial System: Structure, Crisis and Reform (JFK School of Government, Harvard University).  He is a former attorney, with right of appearance in the High Court of South Africa. He has been a certified anti-money laundering specialist (CAMS) of the Association of Anti-Money Laundering Specialists, since 2013.