Hala Bou Alwan is the Founder and CEO of Hala Bou Alwan (HBA) Consultancy a specialized firm in GRC advisory and training. She is a lawyer who holds 3 master’s degrees in AI, Financial Crime, and International Business Law and Cybersecurity from Boston University. She is an experienced leader with more than 18 years of success helping high-profile local and global organizations pave their compliance, Governance and financial crimes roadmaps. She is a thought leader on the topic of Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC), Anti Money Laundering, Sanctions, Cyber Security, Artificial intelligence, Virtual Assets, and Counter-Terrorist Financing, among many other fields. Prior to establishing her own firm, and for the last 9 years, Hala led the market development for Thomson Reuters across all emerging markets globally, prior to this Hala was the AML /CTF DFSA AI at TSME, and before that Head of AML/ CTF at BLOM Bank France.