Shelley
Nicholls-Hunte
Shelley Nicholls-Hunte is the Chief Legal and Compliance Officer at BWU Credit Union in Barbados. She is an Attorney-at-Law of twenty-four years’ call and the former Director, Financial Intelligence Unit, Barbados where she served for approximately fourteen (14) years.
Shelley assisted in the formulation of several key pieces of legislation including Barbados’ current anti- money laundering legislation and prepared the necessary legal research which lay the groundwork for the drafting of the Proceeds and Instrumentalities of Crime Act, 2019.
Shelley is a trained assessor in the FATF Fourth Round Methodology and served as Law Enforcement Examiner in the Mutual Evaluation Exercise of a Caribbean country. She has been a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist since 2008. Shelley is a certified trainer, speaker and coach with the John Maxwell (Leadership) Team. She considers it a privilege to have worked/be working in the financial, legal and law enforcement sectors in the combat of money laundering, terrorist financing and proliferation financing.