Sue Thornhill

Sue Thornhill is a director of MHA and has specialised in financial crime prevention for the past 24 years. She was previously a director at the British Bankers’ Association (BBA), a member of the Joint Money Laundering Steering Group and authored the JMLSG Money Laundering Guidance Notes for the UK Financial Sector from 1990 until 2003. For fifteen years Sue ran the UK money laundering helpdesk in support of the Guidance Notes.

Sue was a member of the European Banking Federation Fraud and Money Laundering Working Party from 1990 to 2000. For several years she was a member of HM Treasury's Money Laundering Expert Group and sat on the FSA’s Money Laundering Rules Advisory Panel. 

She acts as consultant to a number of financial sector firms and non-financial sector businesses within the UK and has advised a number of governments and financial sector regulators on their national strategies to prevent money laundering.

During 2004 she was appointed as a member of the team undertaking the Statutory Review of the Gibraltar FSC. Sue has recently been assisting the Financial Services Commissions of Jersey and Guernsey, and the Financial Supervision Commission of the Isle of Man in the redrafting of their Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorist Financing Handbooks for the regulated sector.

Sue is AML consultant to the Commonwealth Secretariat and the author of the Commonwealth AML/CFT Code of Best Practice. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the International Compliance Association and sits on the Money Laundering Steering Group of the Financial Sector Skills Council.