Meet The Team
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Former Head of OFAC’s Compliance Division.
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Key architect of OFAC's Russia sanctions and NSPM-2 implementation.
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Deep experience providing practical sanctions guidance to insurance, manufacturing, shipping, energy, banking, and investors.
Full bio: As Head of OFAC’s Compliance Division, Claire led the agency’s guidance on sanctions compliance and implementation, administration of blocked assets, and advisory to OFAC targeting teams. Claire provided guidance to industry and foreign governments on the most urgent and complex sanctions problems, including maritime casualties, proposed or ongoing M&A, divestment, and energy asset transactions, authorized activities under OFAC licenses, interpretation of OFAC regulations, and design of sanctions compliance programs.
Claire led the drafting and publication of over twenty public guidance documents on complex sanctions topics for the maritime and shipping, energy, banking, legal, and other industries, in addition to multi-stage project to revise over a hundred baseline Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) for the public. Claire also oversaw multiple complex OFAC remediation efforts by private companies. While leading Compliance, Claire created OFAC’s first private sector engagement team, which delivered 300 industry engagements in first fiscal year and enhanced OFAC’s public-private partnership across a broad range of industries. Claire also oversaw Compliance’s implementation of NPSM-2, including publishing critical guidance on Iranian sanctions evasion.
As Senior OFAC Policy Advisor, Claire was a key architect of the Russian oil price cap policy and worked closely with the governments of the European Union, United Kingdom, and other international partners. For her work on the Russia sanctions, Claire was awarded the U.S. Treasury’s Salmon P. Chase Award for exceptional service in a time of crisis and the Distinguished Employee of the Year Award.
Prior to joining OFAC, Claire advised global banks and crypto companies on anti-money laundering and sanctions risks and remediation at Promontory Financial Group. She also led complex global money laundering investigations at HSBC in London. Claire also led Section 311 investigations at the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), where she specialized in Mexican drug cartels. She also served as FinCEN’s Attache to Mexico in Mexico City. She began her career working in investigative journalism at InSight Crime. She holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in security studies from Georgetown University and speaks fluent Spanish and intermediate Portuguese.
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Trusted sanctions compliance adviser to the insurance and maritime industries.
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Named 19th most influential person in shipping by Lloyd’s List Intelligence.
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Spearheaded OFAC’s guidance for the insurance and shipping industries and led the agency’s implementation of the Russian Oil Price Cap and NPSM-2.
Full bio: Claire served as OFAC’s lead expert on the insurance, reinsurance, maritime, shipping, cargo, aviation, and energy sectors. She drafted the agency’s first scenario-based guidance for the maritime insurance and shipping sectors, providing industry with a practical framework for designing compliance programs, risk assessments, training, and commercial contractual clauses. She drafted OFAC’s guidance for the insurance industry on subrogation rights, exclusion clauses, and other key sanctions compliance topics. She led implementation of NPSM-2, publishing guidance on Iranian sanctions evasion and leading outreach to the private sector on countering Iran.
In her role at OFAC, Claire worked closely with Lloyd’s of London and the Lloyd’s Market Association, leading insurers and reinsurers in the United States, Europe, and the UK, and key maritime sector stakeholders around the world, expanding OFAC’s private sector engagements through various international meetings, workshops, and presentations. She was named the 19th most influential person in shipping by Lloyd’s List for this work. She advised private sector stakeholders on complex sanctions inquiries and regulatory changes, and frequently briefed OFAC and Treasury leadership on energy and insurance market dynamics to inform key policy decisions. She also has experience with blocked asset management and OFAC reporting requirements.
Prior to joining OFAC, Claire co-founded a blockchain philanthropy startup and was awarded a U.S. Department of Defense Boren Scholarship in Chile. She speaks fluent Spanish.
