Justyna Gudzowska
Senior Policy & Development Advisor, The Sentry; Associate Fellow, RUSI
2023
Justyna Gudzowska has spent her career combating financial crime. She is currently a Senior Policy & Development Advisor at The Sentry, an investigative and policy organization that seeks to disable multinational predatory networks that benefit from violent conflict, repression, and kleptocracy, and an Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), the UK’s leading defense and security think tank. Previously, Justyna was the lead sanctions attorney at Morgan Stanley, overseeing the implementation of sanctions for the bank’s offices across the globe and its more than 60,000 employees.
From 2013-2018, Justyna worked for the United Nations as part of an expert team advising the Security Council on countering terrorist groups, in particular ISIS and Al-Qaida, and devised innovative means to combat terrorism financing. Before serving at the UN, she was a legal advisor to the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, where she advised on the full spectrum of economic sanctions issues. Earlier in her career, she worked as an associate at the international law firms Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and at Debevoise & Plimpton.
Justyna received her JD from Yale Law School, where she served as Development Editor for the Yale Journal of International Law and was a student director of the Schell Center for International Human Rights. She holds master’s degrees from the University of Cambridge and the London School of Economics, where she was a Marshall Scholar, and a B.A. from Rice University.
The inaugural Eradicate Hate Summit was a truly impressive gathering of leaders dedicated to finding lasting and effective solutions to violent extremism. I was particularly moved by the prominence given to survivors and family members of victims of hate and violence throughout the event. Their stories and those of so many others must be at the center of what we do and why we do it.
