Jersey Finance – Perspectives: Women in Leadership – Doha

Amy is Deputy Chief Executive of Jersey Finance. Amy joined Jersey Finance in 2011, becoming Chief Operating Officer in January 2014 and assumed her current role in September 2017. Amy also retains an active position leading the Strategic Projects team which undertakes projects and initiatives to develop the financial services industry in the Island.

Amy was born and educated in Jersey and subsequently went on to study at Durham University where she graduated with an honours degree in Natural Sciences.

Previous to Jersey Finance, Amy worked for PwC in the Channel Islands where she specialised in the taxation of offshore funds and Jersey corporate vehicles and provided international structuring advice to a global client base. Whilst working within the tax team, Amy was admitted to the Chartered Institute of Taxation as a Chartered Tax Advisor. Amy initially qualified as a chartered accountant within PwC’s Assurance team working on the audits of a number of banks, financial institutions and public sector bodies.

An joined Jersey Finance in May 2016 as the Business Development Director for Asia and is now based in our Middle East Regional Hub office, in the DIFC in Dubai.

An studied law in Belgium at the University of Leuven including one Erasmus exchange year at Queen Mary and Westfield College in London. She subsequently did an LLM in international business law at Trinity College Dublin.

An qualified as a lawyer in Belgium before moving to Dublin to work in the international business team of the law firm Matheson. In 2009, she went to work for ATC Corporate Services in Luxembourg as a corporate lawyer and later as a business unit manager. After a shareholding change in 2013, ATC Corporate Services merged with the Intertrust Group. An joined the Intertrust Hong Kong office in 2014 as a business unit director for the European and the Private Equity team.

Fatima Al-Ali is currently the Legal Relationships & Partnerships Manager at QICDRC. She focuses on developing the legal community through empowerment-led initiatives, by opening channels with local and international organizations. She also headed the International Relations department at the Rule of Law & Anti-Corruption Center in Doha, and she was one of the key persons in designing and implementing Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani Anti-Corruption Award held in Vienna in 2016. Fatima is one of the members of the Qatar Business Women Association and one of the main editors of “Women in Law in the Arab world” which was recently published by Lexis Nexis. She is appointed Chair of the Governance Committee in the World Innovation and Change Management Institute in Switzerland.

Rishendrie is qualified as both a Chartered Accountant and Chartered Company Secretary with 9 years’ experience in the structured finance industry. Rishendrie has been active in the South African securitisation, corporate fiduciary and financial services markets for many years, having been with GMG Trust Company (SA) since 2012 and following its acquisition end 2014, with the TMF Group. Throughout her tenure she has represented TMF South Africa on various client boards as an independent director and audit committee chairperson, in addition to having served as the Chairperson on the South African Securitisation Forum accounting sub-committee. Rishendrie has recently taken up a Senior Executive role in TMF Qatar. She is currently responsible for client engagement and growth of the business within the Qatar Financial Centre.

Janice is a law graduate starting out as a trustee some 20 years ago pursuant an earlier career in publishing and running her own business. Janice’s vocational qualifications were earned via the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and International Compliance Association. Her own family having had interests in a variety of different jurisdictions, she is well versed in dealing with international assets and assists wealthy families in matters of dynastic importance - succession planning, asset protection, family governance and philanthropy. Janice is a Director in one of the Private Wealth departments and heads a team providing virtual family office services to a significant single family office.

Katherine advises professional trustees, settlors and beneficiaries on matters relevant to trusts and foundations, including drafting trust deeds and advising on complex structures including employee reward schemes, JPUTs and pensions. Katherine joined Ogier in 2012 having previously been a Partner at Harvey Ingram Shakespeare; working in their Leicester and Birmingham offices advising a variety of high net worth private, charitable and commercial clients on contentious and non-contentious issues. Katherine graduated from the University of Lincoln with a BA Hons in Law and French and completed her academic training at College of Law, York. Katherine is a member of the International Pension and Employee Benefit Association Lawyers (IPEBLA), the Association of Contentious Trusts and Probate Specialists (ACTAPS), the working party for charities legislation in Jersey and until leaving the UK in 2012 was the Vice Chair of the Law Society of England and Wales Private Client Section.