Justyna Gudzowska

Justyna Gudzowska has spent her career combating financial crime. 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 organization that seeks to disable multinational predatory networks that benefit from violent conflict, repression, and kleptocracy. She is also an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and a Visiting Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School. Previously, 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. Before serving at the UN, 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 including the sanctions against Iran. Earlier in her career, she worked as an associate at the international law firms Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and at Debevoise & Plimpton. Justyna received her JD from Yale Law School. She 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 been published in Foreign Affairs, Politico, Time, and Bloomberg Law, among others, has testified before Congress, and has been quoted in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg.