Jo Lancashire

Chief Specialist, Financial Crime Intelligence and Thematic Reviews, Danske Bank

After graduating Brentwood in 2014, she pursued a Bachelor of Arts at Sciences Po Paris's campus in Reims which specialises in Transatlantic affairs. As well as taking part in Reims public life as part of the local rowing club, she was also Creative Director of the Sundial Press, the Reims Campus's student newspaper. As part of the program, she undertook a third year exchange in  Ireland at Trinity College Dublin's Department of Law, where she was also part of the rowing team, competing at Irish University Nationals in 2017. Returning to Sciences Po Paris (this time in Paris itself) she undertook a Master of Arts in International Security. During this time she was also the founding International Affairs Editor, and then English Editor-in-Chief of the Sciences Po Paris Review of Public Affairs, an academic journal.

During breaks and as part of required practical experience, Jo interned at the Australian High Commission to the United Kingdom in London, studied a short course in cyberlaw at the London School of Economics and Political Science and undertook a placement with UN Women at headquarters in New York, gaining exposure to different parts of international affairs. 

Following the completion of her masters degree she worked in research communications at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security, the oldest defence and security think tank in the world. Transitioning into a different sector, she currently works with financial crime intelligence in the financial sector where she works with research on financial crime typologies, open-source intelligence (OSINT) and investigations. She's passionate about using open source intelligence and data to work on public interest issues such as criminal activity, financial crime and sanctions circumvention, using skills from her prior experience with security risk. She speaks English and French fluently and has varying degrees of fluency in Arabic and Swedish, and is a beginner in Danish.