January’s AFC Professional of the Month was awarded to Motsisi Mongati, CAMS, a seasoned lawyer with 17 years of experience. Mongati is currently a Ph.D. candidate in business management majoring in international finance at the Philippines Christian University. She holds a master's of financial management from Amity University in India and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Botswana.
Mongati is experienced in legal advisory services, board secretariat, strategic planning, legal research, legal drafting, enforcement, corporate governance and anti-money laundering/counter-terrorist financing (AML/CTF) compliance. She is a trained and practicing AML/CTF assessor of the Eastern and Southern Africa Anti-Money Laundering Group (ESAAMLG), with a demonstrated history of working in the financial services regulatory environment.
She is currently heading the AML/CTF unit of the Non-Bank Financial Institutions Regulatory Authority (NBFIRA) of Botswana, an integrated regulator and supervisor of the pension funds, insurance, capital markets and lending sectors.
Mongati is a member of the Law Society of Botswana, ACAMS and the Compliance Institute of Southern Africa.
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