Selma Della Santina

Director, Forensic Risk Alliance

Selma is a director based in FRA’s Zurich office. She has over 13 years of experience in forensic accounting, financial due diligence and auditing. She specialises in responding to regulatory enforcement requests in the financial services industry. Selma has extensive experience in leading large international teams in various financial crime and tax transparency investigations. She also has significant experience in designing and improving financial crime compliance programmes as well as implementing remediation efforts as a result of past infractions covering various types of fraud risk.

Prior to joining FRA, Selma worked at EY and PwC in Australia, Austria, Slovenia and Switzerland. During her tenure, she gained extensive experience in leading large international teams to investigate, remediate and assess financial crime infractions, working alongside in-house investigations teams and external legal counsel. She also has a deep understanding of complex client structures in Swiss private banking, as well as of local and the international regulatory environment relating to financial crime topics.

Selma is a certified fraud examiner and holds a Master of Business Administration. She is also an ETHIC Intelligence certified ISO 19600 and ISO 37001 certified auditor. She is fluent in English, Italian, Bosnian and Slovene.