Board Member
Graham Baldock
Graham Baldock currently serves as the Financial Crime Compliance Risk Director in Trade Finance at Citi, London.
With over 20 years of experience, Graham has held numerous senior compliance roles. He has worked at Legal & General, Citi, HSBC in London and Standard Chartered Bank in Singapore. Additionally, he served as the Chief Compliance Officer/MLRO for a digital trade bank in Abu Dhabi. Throughout his career, Graham has been actively involved in the industry, co-authoring papers for organizations such as the International Chamber of Commerce, the Wolfsberg Group, and the Coalition to Fight Financial Crime. He has also participated in various industry forums and currently serves as the co-chair for the Financial Crime Working Group at the International Trade and Forfeiting Association.
Graham holds a Professional Doctorate in Criminal Justice from Portsmouth University and has published several journal articles on financial crime in the financial services sector. Alongside his academic pursuits, he has a passion for raising awareness of the true risks in trade finance and aims to steer compliance efforts towards efficiently mitigating financial crime whilst ensuring the availability of trade finance for all, a task that comes with its own set of challenges.