Liya Banda Tembo
Director, Legal and Policy, Financial Intelligence Centre, Zambia
Mrs. Liya B. Tembo has, for the past five years, held the position of Director, Legal and Policy at the Financial Intelligence Centre. Her day to day work involves reviewing, developing and assessing the regulatory framework for combating money laundering, terrorist and proliferation financing. Liya was involved in spearheading the review of the law (including subsidiary regulations) that provides for obligations relating to, inter alia, customer due diligence for purposes of combating money laundering, terrorist and proliferation financing. She has experience in conducting risk assessment having chaired the working group on the Designated Non-Businesses and Professionals during Zambia’s money laundering and terrorist financing national risk assessment. Liya is a trained assessor for mutual evaluation of the Financial Action Task Force standards. She has over 14 years of experience in legal enforcement and compliance. She is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist.