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Chinwe Eismai, JD Chief Compliance Officer Citi

Chinwe Eismai is a lawyer, corporate executive, author, and keynote speaker. She’s Citi’s Chief Compliance Officer for Legacy Franchises. She was previously Chief Anti- Bribery & Corruption Officer at Citi. Prior to that, she served as VP & Anti-Bribery Compliance Officer at Goldman, Sachs & Co. (GSCO), and as VP in the Reg Audits & Inquiries Group at GSCO. She is an Executive Council member of the Ellevate Network and a Cheryl Blair Foundation mentor. Eismai has numerous recognitions, including Crain’s New York Business Notable Diverse Leaders in Banking & Finance, Diversity Woman Magazine Elite 100 Black Women Changing the Face of Corporate America, and Tropics Magazine’s Most Powerful Africans Shaping the Future of Africa. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts in political science from the City College of New York, and her J.D. from Harvard Law School. Following graduation, she practiced as a corporate associate at LeBoeuf, Lamb LLP, where she worked on mergers and acquisitions and a variety of capital markets transactions.