Profiles

Enery Quinones, Chief Compliance Officer

Enery Quinones is the Chief Compliance Officer at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). She joined the EBRD in June 2004 and as Head of the Compliance Office is responsible for ensuring that the highest standards of integrity are applied throughout all activities of the EBRD. The Compliance Office, which is also the anti-money laundering office of the Bank, provides a range of advice and assistance to all Bank departments in assessing and evaluating integrity and reputational risks relating to proposed, as well as on-going, Bank transactions. Her Office conducts Bank-wide integrity and anti-money laundering training courses, advises on actual or potential conflicts of interest in respect to the Bank’s handling of operations and investments, and investigates instances of staff misconduct as well as allegations of fraud and corruption in Bank financed projects. The Bank’s Independent Recourse Mechanism which provides redress for complaints by local groups adversely affected by EBRD financed projects, is also managed by the Compliance Office. Ms. Quinones represents the EBRD in the Financial Action Task Force, the OECD Anti-Corruption Network for Transition Economies, MoneyVal, Transparency International’s Steering Committee on the Business Principles for Countering Corruption, and numerous other international fora.

Prior to joining EBRD, Enery Quinones was Head of the Anti-Corruption Division in the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD). Having played a key role in developing the OECD’s anti-bribery instruments, she then developed and oversaw the implementation of the first international mechanism to monitor compliance among States Parties to a multinational anti-corruption treaty, the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions. Before becoming head of the anti-corruption division, Ms. Quinones worked on international investment issues, including the negotiations for a Multilateral Agreement on Investment. She has also worked on legal matters for the Nuclear Energy Agency and the International Energy Agency.

A United States national, Ms. Quinones received her University degree in Economics from New York University and her Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School.