Justyna Gudzowska

Justyna Gudzowska has spent her career at the intersection of illicit finance and international security. She is an expert on sanctions, corruption, terrorism financing, and money laundering, having worked on these issues across the public and private sectors. She is currently the Executive Director of The Sentry, an investigative and policy organisation that seeks to expose and disrupt actors profiting from the conflict, corruption, and natural resource exploitation that drive human suffering. She is also an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service (SFS). 

Prior to joining The Sentry, Justyna was the lead sanctions attorney at Morgan Stanley, overseeing the implementation of sanctions for the bank’s offices across the globe. 

From 2013-2018, Justyna worked for the United Nations as part of an expert team advising the Security Council on countering global terrorist groups, in particular ISIS and Al-Qaida, and devised innovative means to combat terrorist financing. Prior to serving at the United Nations, she was a legal advisor to the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, where she advised on a variety of sanctions programs. Earlier in her career, Justyna was an attorney at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and Debevoise & Plimpton. She received her Juris Doctor from Yale Law School, and holds master’s degrees from the University of Cambridge and the London School of Economics, where she was a Marshall Scholar, and a B.A. from Rice University. 

Justyna has appeared on CNN and NPR and been published in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Politico, Time, and Bloomberg Law, among others. She has also testified before Congress, and has been quoted in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg.