Samantha Sultoon

Samantha Sultoon is Senior Financial Crimes Director at Truist Financial Corporation where she oversees the global sanctions and anti-bribery/anti-corruption program across the enterprise.

Prior to joining Truist, Ms. Sultoon served as Director for Threat Finance and Sanctions at the National Security Council (NSC) at the White House where she spent two years developing and coordinating the Biden Administration’s policymaking process for a range of economic statecraft and national security issues. During her tenure at NSC, Ms. Sultoon led and directed cross-government processes to develop and implement counter threat finance and economic sanctions strategies across geographic and thematic policy priorities. She was instrumental in the development and implementation of multiple new executive orders, policy strategies, and coordinating with international partners. Ms. Sultoon also held a variety of leadership roles within the U.S. Department of the Treasury including serving as the OFAC lead on Treasury’s 2021 Sanctions Review where she developed and co-led implementation of the first-ever comprehensive review of U.S. sanctions strategy. Ms. Sultoon also served as Section Chief of OFAC Enforcement, and as Senior Sanctions Policy Advisor at OFAC. Ms. Sultoon was responsible for shaping new policies and regulations for both strengthening (Syria) and easing (Burma I, Cuba, Sudan) sanctions measures, and developing and implementing new sanctions authorities (Global Magnitsky, Burundi). Ms. Sultoon regularly represented the U.S. Government domestically and internationally, conducting outreach and engagements with Congress, foreign governments, and the private sector. Prior to her work at OFAC, Ms. Sultoon was an advisor in the Treasury Department’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis and a risk expert for the World Bank.

Ms. Sultoon has an MSc with distinction from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London and a BA from the University of Michigan. She is a former Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow and a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She is also a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Global Business and Economics program.