Sue Thornhill

Sue Thornhill is the Director of MHA Compliance and Training Ltd. Sue acts as an anti-money laundering compliance consultant to the public and private sector in the UK and internationally. She is also the Money Laundering Consultant to the British Bankers Association and an Advisor to the UK Joint Money Laundering Steering Group.

Sue has specialised in money laundering prevention since 1987. She was the Secretary to the UK Joint Money Laundering Steering Group 1990-1997. She is the author of the UK Money Laundering Guidance Notes for the Financial Sector 1990 to date and provides the JMLSG Help Desk in support of the UK Guidance Notes. In addition to this Sue has been the Anti-Money Laundering Consultant to the Commonwealth Secretariat since 1996 and is the co-author of the Code of Best Practice for Money Laundering Prevention within the Commonwealth Countries. She is a consultant and adviser to a number of non-UK jurisdictions and the Crown Dependencies in respect of their anti-money laundering strategies and has recently been engaged by the FSC's in both Jersey and Guernsey to assist with the updating of each jurisdiction's Guidance Notes.

She is a past member of the European Banking Federation Fraud and Money Laundering Working party and has represented the UK in Plenary meetings of the Financial Action Task Force and has taken part in two mutual evaluation examinations of the UK.

Furthermore, Sue is the author of a variety of articles and publications dealing with anti-money laundering and is a regular conference presenter on the subject globally.