Clay Stevenson

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CLAY STEVENSON is the Head of Sanctions for Santander US. Prior to commencing this role in early 2025, Clay was with Deutsche Bank serving as global head of sanctions (2023-2024) and Americas head of sanctions (2019-2022). From 2017-2019, Clay worked as an independent consultant specializing in economic sanctions matters. From 2009 to 2017, Clay was the global head of sanctions compliance at Bank of America, and concurrently led its anti-bribery/anti-corruption function during 2015-2016. From 2007 to 2009, Clay was the head of sanctions compliance at Merrill Lynch. And from 1999 through 2007, Clay served with the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) in various roles within Compliance and Global Targeting. Clay received his BA from the George Washington University and his MA from the Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies.