ilona phillips

Associate

LONDON

SPECIALISES IN:

Integrity Due Diligence
Business Intelligence

REGIONAL EXPERTISE:

MENA Western Europe Hungary

PRIOR EXPERIENCE:

Alaco, 2020-2023

EDUCATION:

University of Durham SOAS University of London L’Institut Francais du Proche Orient (IFPO), Beirut

LANGUAGES

Arabic Hungarian French
Farsi

Ilona is an Associate in Wallbrook’s London office, where she works across the Western Europe and MENA teams in the firm’s business intelligence practice.

Prior to joining Wallbrook, Ilona spent over two and a half years as an analyst, and later senior analyst, at another business intelligence firm in London. Ilona primarily worked in the firm’s due diligence practice, conducting a range of complex pre-transactional and source of wealth investigations focused on the French-speaking world and MENA region. She also has experience running in-depth diligence assignments in Hungary and wider Central Europe.

Ilona completed an undergraduate degree in French and Arabic at Durham University, during which she spent a year living in Lebanon, where she studied Arabic language at the Institut Français du Proche Orient (IFPO) in Beirut. She additionally holds a masters in Middle Eastern Studies from SOAS University in London.