Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Day: Risk 2025 and new geopolitical challenges

Harriet E. Berg took up the position as director of the Norwegian Directorate for Export Controls and Sanctions, DEKSA, on 12 February 2024. From August 2022 to February 2024, she was Director General  of the Service Department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Since 1991, she has held several positions in the Norwegian Foreign Service, including as deputy director general of the Department of Human Rights, Democracy and Gender Equality from 2021 to 2022 and as Norway's consul general in New York from 2017 to 2021. She was also Minister Counsellor at the Norwegian Delegation to the UN and other international organisations in Geneva from 2011 to 2016.

From 2000 to 2011, she worked for Telenor Group, leading their global government relations work from 2007. She established and managed Telenor's Brussels office (towards the EU institutions) from 2000. Prior to joining Telenor, she was state secretary in the Ministry of Trade and Industry from 1997 to 2000.

Harriet holds a Master's degree in International Relations from Columbia University in New York. She has held several directorships in Norwegian companies and institutions as well as in international business organisations.

Rose is head of the Department of Sanctions and Legal Affairs at the Norwegian Directorate for Export Controls and Sanctions (DEKSA). She is an expert in EU/EEA law, human rights and administrative law and works with issues at the intersection of law, security policy and public administration. Rose has experience from the Norwegian Digitalisation Agency, the Norwegian Data Protection Authority, KPMG and the EOS Committee's secretariat. In addition, Rose has worked as a researcher and independent expert in EU-funded technology development projects. Rose holds a doctorate (Ph.D.) in law from the University of Oslo and a master's degree (LL.M.) in law from the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands.

Martin Sørby is deputy director general of the Legal Affairs Department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His previous positions include director of Control at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador to the Netherlands and Luxembourg, and director of the Humanitarian and Criminal Law Section of the Legal Affairs Department.

Øystein Børmer has been Director General of Customs since 2017, and is now in his second six-year term as director general of Customs. He is also head of the European region in the World Customs Organisation (WCO), since 2023. His previous positions include director of the Norwegian Agency for Financial Management (2012-2017), deputy director of the Authority (2006-2012) and state secretary in the Ministry of Finance (2001-2005). He is also deputy chair of the Norwegian Employers' Council (since 2020), and was a member of the Quarantine Board from 2015-2019. He holds a degree in social economics from the University of Oslo.

Inga Bejer Engh took up her position as Deputy Head of the Norwegian Police Security Service in April 2024. She has a degree in law. In the period 2018-2024, Engh was Children's Ombudsman. Prior to this, she worked as a district court judge in Oslo District Court. Engh has also worked for 12 years as a public prosecutor at the Oslo Public Prosecutor's Office, and for several years as a police prosecutor at the then Asker and Bærum Police District.

Photo: The Norwegian Police Security Service (PST)

Stephan B. Johansen, a U.S. qualified lawyer, is part of Reed Smith’s Global Regulatory Enforcement group, where he focuses his practice on international trade and sanctions. In his international trade practice, Stephan maintains a focus on economic sanctions, export controls, and anti-money laundering, and he interacts regularly with U.S. and European regulators. Prior to obtaining his Juris Doctor from Penn State Law, Stephan received his law degree from Brussels, Belgium, where he focused on EU Competition Law.

Helle Astrup is a lawyer and head of the Regulatory and Legal Advisory department in Group Legal in Nordea Norge. The department is responsible for the areas of privacy, confidentiality, anti-money laundering, sanctions, competition law and labour law. Helle has a background as a lawyer at Wikborg Rein and a deputy judge at Oslo District Court. She is Nordea's representative in Finance Norway's Financial Crime Committee - Money Laundering.

Fanny Tysland is a lawyer in Group Legal in Nordea Norge. She works with anti-money laundering and sanctions. Fanny has a background as a police prosecutor and deputy judge in Oslo District Court.

Annar Schiander is a senior advisor at the National Security Authority (NSM). He is a graduate economist with more than 25 years of experience from the fund and securities industry in Norway and internationally. Annar has worked with sales and counselling, product development and compliance in companies such as Carnegie, and the AIF manager Oslo Asset Management as well as in Oslo Børs. In connection with NSM's increased focus on security-threatening financial instruments, he started there in June 2023.

Eirik Wærness is Senior Vice President, Chief Economist and Head of Global External Analysis in Equinor. He is group responsible for macroeconomics, energy and commodity market analyses, geopolitics, competitive intelligence, and policy and regulation in mid- and downstream markets.

Eirik has broad experience from government, academics, and private sector companies. He is Executive in Residence in Economics at the Norwegian Business School, Member of World Economic Forum’s Chief Economists Community and Non-resident fellow at Payne Institute at Colorado School of Mines.

Previous roles in Equinor include head of Corporate Strategy, Corporate Planning and Analysis, and Energy Market Analysis. In addition, Eirik has been a non-executive board member of Norges Bank, Norwegian Financial Supervisory Authority and Innovation Norway.