Charmian Simmons is a Financial Crime and Compliance Expert for Financial Services covering the EMEA region. She has over 20 years of experience in the financial sector across risk management, financial crime, internal controls and IT advisory. She is responsible for providing practitioner expertise, thought leadership and analyzing key policy/regulatory/cultural/technology drivers transforming the compliance market. Charmian is CAMS, CRMA, CDPSE and CISA certified.

Prior to joining BAE Systems, Charmian was a Regional Director of Strategy and Performance for the Risk business at Refinitiv, the Head of Audit in North America at Lloyds Banking Group USA, and a Vice President at Morgan Stanley covering Institutional Securities and Capital Markets.