Sarah Keeling

Career

Sarah Keeling joined the StoneTurn U.K. team in 2019 as a senior adviser and was named Partner in January 2021; Sarah was appointed as a Board Member in 2022. With more than three decades of experience in national security and geopolitical risk issues in the UK and globally, Sarah advises the Boards of corporates, family offices, private equity firms and alternative asset funds and their counsel on strategies for managing operational, reputational and investment risk, and security matters worldwide.

As a former senior British government official, Sarah brings significant expertise conducting complex, multi-jurisdictional anti-bribery and corruption investigations, asset-tracing and recovery, and provides litigation support for international arbitration and disputes revolving around political, regulatory or integrity issues. Currently, Sarah works with companies, family offices and their counsel on operational, reputational and investment risk matters worldwide.

Prior to StoneTurn, she built and led a new EMEA Global Risk and Investigations practice at FTI and led the Investigations and Strategic Intelligence EMEA practice at Berkeley Research Group, a global advisory firm. She also held leadership roles within government and as Managing Director of Aegis Defence Services where she was the Senior Adviser for Lloyds of London on Piracy. Throughout her career in both the private and public sectors, Sarah has led high-performing and diverse investigations and business intelligence teams.

As a leader in the risk and security sector, Sarah served as the Chairman of the Risk & Security Management Forum (RSMF), a not-for-profit organisation for security professionals including Global Heads of Security for FTSE100, academia, business and government organisations in the U.K., and she is also a frequent coach and mentor for rising female executives worldwide.

Publications

Are you heart healthy? Strategic Risk (2023), The Insider Threat: Mitigating Risk Within the DNA of Your Organization (2023), The General Counsel: Risk Managing in a Complex Geopolitical World.(2022), Are You Ready for ESG as a Critical Business Imperative? (2022), Amid Shifting Business Landscape, the GCs Role and Value Are Expanding. (2022), Private Capital and the Energy Transition (2022), Intelligence Matters (2022), Dispelling the Myths of ESG and Why it Matters to Private Equity (2022), Deal Fever and its Implications for Private Equity Investing (2021), Can SPAC Trend Take Wing in Europe?, Citywire Selector magazine (2021), Post-Brexit Fraud Considerations in the UK and EU, (2021), SPACs Boom: Too Good to be True?, (2021), Oman: Attractive Investment Prospects, Approach with Diligence (2020).

Practice Areas

Business Intelligence, Operational Risk Management, Litigation Advisory, International Arbitration, Investigations, Compliance & Monitoring, Crisis Management.

Professional Memberships

Member of the Worshipful Company of Security Professionals. Member of the Libyan British Business Council. Trustee, Gardening with Disabilities.

Industry Sector Expertise

Oil and Gas, Extractives, Renewables, Telecomms, Media and Technology, Private Equity, Hedge Funds, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Infrastructure, Aerospace and Defence.

Languages Spoken

French, German, Working knowledge of Farsi.

Education

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