Stephanie Rice

Stephanie Rice is an economic sanctions and financial crime adviser with extensive public- and private-sector experience in investigations, regulatory compliance, and risk management. She specializes in financial crimes and compliance consulting, with substantial expertise in sanctions enforcement and compliance. Stephanie is well-positioned to advise on complex sanctions matters, including designing and operating compliance programs, delivering training, and managing testing and investigations.

Ms. Rice has held senior financial crimes compliance roles at several large global financial institutions, including JP Morgan Chase, Commerzbank, and Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi. Prior to her work in the private sector, she served as an Investigator at the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). In that role, she worked on large, multi-agency investigations involving sanctions evasion networks, terrorism financing, organized crime, and money laundering. She brought enforcement actions against banks, exporters, technology companies, and transportation companies for sanctions-related misconduct, and she trained prosecutors, foreign delegations, and industry groups on U.S. sanctions regulations and enforcement.

Stephanie holds a BA from George Washington University, where she graduated from the University Honors Program with a double major in Middle East Studies and Conflict & Security Studies and a minor in Arabic. She has lived abroad in Germany, Lebanon, and Hong Kong, and she speaks German, Arabic, and English.