Clay Stevenson

Advisory Board Chair
Managing Director | Head of Sanctions, OFAC & Watchlists, Santander US

CLAY STEVENSON joined Santander as US Head of Sanctions in February 2025. Prior to this, Clay was with Deutsche Bank as global head of sanctions (2023-2024) and Americas head of sanctions (2019-2022). From 2017-2019, Clay was a consultant specializing in sanctions matters. From 2009-2017, Clay was the global head of sanctions at Bank of America, and concurrently led its anti-bribery/anti-corruption function in 2015-2016. From 2007-2009, Clay was head of sanctions compliance at Merrill Lynch. And from 1999-2007, Clay served with the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) in various roles within Compliance and Global Targeting.