Sarah Runge is an executive managing director at K2 Integrity. She boasts a wealth of experience in anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) regimes in the public and private sectors.
Before joining K2 Integrity, Sarah was global director of regulatory compliance policies, programs, and governance at Meta FinTech Compliance (a division of Meta), where she led teams that managed the global compliance program for all regulated products globally. Before her time at Meta, Sarah was the global head of FCC regulatory strategy for at Credit Suisse, where she developed and managed a global risk management strategy to mitigate regulatory risk. This work included leading remediation of deficiencies of the bank’s New York branch related to Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) requirements including Customer Due Diligence (CDD), Section 312 of the USA PATRIOT Act, and other regulations.
Prior to Credit Suisse, Sarah spent over ten years in the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes, the last five as the director of the Office of Strategic Policy. Her team developed domestic and international strategies to address illicit finance through work with supervisors, law enforcement, and policy makers in the United States and globally. Sarah Runge served as the head of the U.S. delegation to FATF from 2017 to 2018, when she was also a member of the FATF Steering Group. Sarah was a senior member of the U.S. delegation to FATF from 2011 to 2017, including as the lead negotiator on the changes to the FATF standards on beneficial ownership, correspondent banking, cross-border information sharing, and nonprofit organizations.
Sarah earned an M.A. in international affairs from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a B.A. in history from Scripps College.
