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The Wolfsberg Group is managed by two co-chairs: Emma Molvidson and Jennifer Calvery.

The Co-Chairs are part of the Management Committee which manages the current business and represents the Group externally. As of October 2025, the Management Committee counts, in addition to the Co-Chairs, two other members: Tracey McDermott and Stevenson Munro.

Emma Molvidson

Co-Chair

Global Head of Financial Crime Prevention for UBS, Emma has been elected as the new Co-Chair of the Wolfsberg Group, effective from January 1, 2025. Emma became the Global Head of Financial Crime Prevention at UBS in April 2023. She has held a variety of senior management roles at UBS over the past 14 years in Group Legal, the Investment Bank as well as leading Compliance & Investigations. Prior to joining UBS, Emma was at Swiss Re and she also has a private practice background in corporate finance from Norton Rose in London and Paris.

Jennifer Calvery

Co-Chair

Jen was elected Co-Chair of the Wolfsberg Group in January 2024. Jennifer is Group Head of Financial Crime Risk and Compliance. Before joining HSBC in 2016, Jennifer was the Director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), the national financial crime regulatory agency housed within the US Department of the Treasury. Prior to FinCEN, Jennifer spent 15 years at the US Department of Justice.

Tracey McDermott, CBE

Management Committee

Tracey McDermott, CBE joins the Management Committee in the role of external senior adviser. She brings with her a distinguished career spanning the public and private sectors. From 2017 to 2024, she served as a member of the Group Management Team at Standard Chartered Bank including as Group Chief Compliance Officer and Group MLRO. Previously, she spent 15 years at the UK Financial Services Authority and its successor, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), culminating in her role as acting CEO. Tracey also served on the Bank of England’s Financial Policy Committee and the boards of the PRA, ESMA, and IOSCO.

Stevenson Munro

Management Committee

Stevenson Munro, Global Head of Financial Crime Risk at Standard Chartered Bank, joins the Management Committee with extensive experience in financial crime compliance. In his current role, he leads global efforts across anti-money laundering, sanctions, anti-bribery and corruption, and fraud. Prior to joining Standard Chartered in 2015 as Global Head of Sanctions Compliance, he held senior leadership roles in several global financial institutions. Steve previously served as Deputy Chief Counsel at the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), where he advised on the development and enforcement of U.S. economic sanctions programs.

Secretariat

The day-to—day management of the Group is ensured by the Secretariat.

John Edward (Ned) Conway

Executive Secretary

J. Edward 'Ned' Conway is the Executive Secretary of the Wolfsberg Group, an association of 12 global banks which aims to develop frameworks and guidance for the management of financial crime risks. Ned is also on the advisory board of the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS), and he chairs the UN’s Private Sector Dialogue on the disruption of financial crimes related to environmental crime. He has previously held positions at Santander, Barclays, PwC, and the US Department of Defense. 

Fleur Beaton-Daghestani

Policy Advisor

Fleur has extensive financial crime prevention and investigations experience, gained over 15 years across the consultancy, Financial Services and humanitarian sectors. Early in her career, she specialised in integrity due diligence, including at a Big 4 firm, before spending five years supporting AML in the financial crime compliance of global corporate banks. More recently, Fleur led the anti-corruption prevention programme for a highly complex humanitarian organisation, overseeing organisational reform of policies, risk assessments, training and working practices in 27 Global South countries. She also managed the response, including disclosure reporting, to high-risk incidents including sanctions breaches, terror financing and bribery of public officials. Her particular interest is in managing sanctions risk, for which she gained an ICA Advanced Certificate in 2025. She is also a published author in The REGTECH Book: The Financial Technology Handbook for Investors, Entrepreneurs and Visionaries in Regulation (2019). 

Agnes Ciccarone

Events and Communication Specialist

Agnès joined the Wolfsberg Group in April 2024. Prior to joining Wolfsberg, Agnès spent almost 25 years working for NGOs operating at European level. Agnès has extensive experience in event, project and budget management, and in the management of member-based networks. Agnès holds a Master's degree in international law, international relations and foreign languages from the University of Bath and the Humboldt University in Berlin. She also holds a Master 2 in criminal law focused on the fight against financial crime. Her master thesis (January 2024) offers a comparative analysis of the anticorruption legislation and policies in the public sector in France and Germany.