MICHELLE RYAN

PARTNER

LONDON

SPECIALISES IN:

Integrity Due Diligence
Business Intelligence
Sanctions Exposure

REGIONAL EXPERTISE:

Latin America
Caribbean
North America

PRIOR EXPERIENCE:

Aon, 2017-2018
Stroz Friedberg, 2017-2018
Frontier Horizons, 2014-2016

EDUCATION:

London School of Economics
University of St Andrews
National University of Singapore

LANGUAGES:

Spanish

Michelle is a Partner within Wallbrook’s London office, primarily covering the Americas. She has overseen countless complex enhanced due diligence investigations, routinely advising clients on Venezuelan sanctions exposure and high-risk investments and partnerships throughout the Americas.

Michelle joined Wallbrook from Stroz Friedberg, where she undertook hundreds of source-of-wealth and source-of-investment due diligence pieces. While at Stroz, she oversaw a financial remediation exercise for a tier one investment bank to ensure compliance with international tax transparency regulations.

Michelle previously worked for a boutique security consultancy analysing political and security risks for clients operating on-the-ground in high-risk jurisdictions. She was also a researcher at the US Department of State, initially in Washington DC and later at the US Embassy in London, where she supported economic statecraft initiatives and international economic sanctions coordination.

Michelle holds a master's degree in international political economy from the London School of Economics and Political Science, where she focused on anti-money laundering policy implementation in emerging and frontier markets. She holds a first-class degree in international relations from the University of St Andrews in Scotland, and studied politics and economics at the National University of Singapore.