Inessa Owens
Associate General Counsel & Senior Vice President, Bank of America
Inessa leads the Global Financial Crimes Legal team at Bank of America. Her team advises the Bank of America enterprise on anti-money laundering, economic sanctions, and anti-corruption laws across all business units and jurisdictions, working in close partnership with the Global Financial Crimes Compliance function. Inessa has particular subject matter expertise in US economic sanctions laws and regulations implemented by OFAC and is the Bank’s lead sanctions lawyer. Prior to joining the Bank of America Legal Department, Inessa spent over a decade in private practice, first as an associate attorney in Orrick’s litigation practice group, and then in Baker McKenzie’s outbound trade practice group. A longtime resident of the Washington, D.C. area, Inessa received her undergraduate degree from Georgetown University and her law degree from American University Washington College of Law.