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Saskia Rietbroek, CSS

Executive Director and Co-Founder

Association of Certified Sanctions Specialists (ACSS) | Netherlands

Saskia is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of the Association of Certified Sanctions Specialists (ACSS), a professional membership body for sanctions professionals worldwide. She is a Certified Sanctions Specialist (CSS) and Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and an industry leader in financial crime topics. Saskia has over 15 years of Sanctions/AML experience in the U.S., Latin America and Europe. Her global footprint enables Saskia to apply valuable expertise and insight into international training and financial crime compliance projects.

Previously, Saskia was the Executive Director at SanctionsAlert, the world’s first information and training business on the subject, and before that was founder of AML Services International LLC. Prior to that, she was Financial Crimes Advisor to Fiserv, and she was also the founding executive director of the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS), where she spearheaded the development of the CAMS certification and co-led many international conferences.

She is a frequent speaker in English, Spanish and Dutch on a variety of financial crime topics.

She earned law degrees from Leiden University (Netherlands) and Universidad La Católica (Lima, Peru), and was admitted to the Lima Bar Association. She also holds an international MBA from Florida International University. She speaks fluent Dutch, English and Spanish, as well as basic German.