Solène Clement

Chair / Founder Anti- Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Observatory

Lawyer at the Paris Bar, Solène Clément has been practicing anti-money laundering compliance for a decade, first in banking and then at Clément Avocat. She advises and trains real estate agents, art dealers, financial instituion on the implementation of AML-FT prevention programs and defends them before the National Sanctions Commission.

She also works with various international institutions to support States in bringing their national legal framework into compliance with international standards.

Noting the absence of a cross-sectoral forum to discuss AML-CFT, Solène CLEMENT created and chairs the Anti- Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Observatory, which is the first think tank entirely dedicated to AML-CFT issues. Prefaced by President François Hollande, the Observatory published "State of play and perspective of the fight against money laundering" at Dalloz. The Observatory gathers the obliged entities, financial and non-financial, to discuss AML-CFT.

Finally, Solène is vice-president of the Advisory Council of CARPA de Paris, the compliance body of the legal profession.