Clay Stevenson

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CLAY STEVENSON joined Santander as US Head of Sanctions in February 2025. Prior to this, 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, predominantly involving banks under US enforcement orders. From 2009-2017, Clay was the global head of sanctions at Bank of America, and concurrently led its anti-bribery/anti-corruption function in 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, the group responsible for OFAC’s sanctions investigation activities. Clay received his BA from the George Washington University and his MA from the Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies.