Samya Abou Sharif

President

Ms. Samya Abou Sharif is a key member of the National Committee for Combating Money Laundering and Counter Terrorist Financing and implements its policy at the national and international levels, taking the necessary measures to ensure the required coordination to implement and sustain the system for combating money laundering, financing of terrorism and proliferation in Jordan. In addition, she is Chief of the Anti Money laundering and Counter Terrorist Financing Unit (Jordan FIU) and the Head of the Technical Committee responsible for the implementation of targeted financial sanctions (TFS) in Jordan since 2020.

Before that, she was a member of the legal department in the Central Bank of Jordan (2004-2020). Additionally, she had the opportunity to work with many private law firms in Jordan. She was the coordinator lead of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF (action plan implementation in Jordan, leading efforts and representing the kingdom toward removal from the FATF grey list in October 2023 and EU list in Feb 2024.

Samya is a legal practitioner with a background in international banking regulation and compliance. She is licensed to practice law in Jordan since 2001. A holder of an M.A. in Law from the University of Jordan and completed her LL.M. in American Law at Wake Forest School of Law- USA 2016.