Sanctions
We examine the complex challenges surrounding the design and implementation of sanctions and identify both public and private sector-based solutions and areas for collaboration.
RUSI’s research examines the complex challenges surrounding the design and implementation of sanctions. Our approach to sanctions research is unique and provides much-needed input to a debate that is often conducted in professional silos.
In the lead-up to the UK’s exit from the EU, RUSI convened a high-level taskforce to assess questions relating to future UK sanctions policy. Our work also includes research on legislative developments in Washington and Brussels; the use of economic sanctions as a foreign policy tool more broadly; the implementation of country-based sanctions regimes (such as Russia or Iran); the role of technology in sanctions evasion; and counter-proliferation finance.
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Tom Keatinge
Director, CFS
Centre for Finance and Security
Kinga Redlowska
Head of CFS Europe
Centre for Finance and Security
Dr Maria Nizzero
Research Fellow
Centre for Finance and Security
Gonzalo Saiz Erausquin
Research Fellow
Centre for Finance and Security
Eliza Lockhart
Research Fellow
Centre for Finance and Security
Chandana Seshadri
Research Analyst, Counter Proliferation Financing
Centre for Finance and Security
Fatima Alsancak
CPF Technical Assistance Programme Research Fellow
Centre for Finance and Security
Fellows
Dr Aaron Arnold
Senior Associate Fellow; Former member of the UN Panel of Experts for DPRK sanctions
Centre for Finance and Security
Andrea Berger
Associate Fellow
Dr Anna Bradshaw
Associate Fellow; Partner, Business Crime Department, Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP
Isabella Chase
Associate Fellow; Former CFCS Senior Research Fellow, RUSI
Emil Dall
Associate Fellow; Sanctions Lead at FINTRAIL
Jan Dunin-Wasowicz
Associate Fellow; Partner, Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP
James Gillespie
Associate Fellow; Former Policy Advisor, HM Treasury
Dr Myong-Hyun Go
Associate Fellow; Senior Research Fellow at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies, Seoul, Korea
Justyna Gudzowska
Associate Fellow
Dr Ashley Hess
Associate Fellow
Olivia Kearney
Associate Fellow
Kayla Izenman
Associate Fellow; Former CFCS Research Fellow, RUSI
Aidan Larkin
Associate Fellow; Founder & CEO, Asset Reality
Anton Moiseienko
Associate Fellow; Lecturer in Law, Australian National University
Allison Owen
Associate Fellow - Expert in cryptocurrency and counter-proliferation finance
Dr Daniel Salisbury
RUSI Associate Fellow - Expert in nuclear security and open source intelligence
Dr Jason Shepherd
Senior Associate Fellow; Director, Analysis and Innovation, Thomson Reuters Special Services International
