Svea Ottenstein is a Senior Vice President in the Risk Advisory practice at AlixPartners, specializing in compliance, anti-financial crime, and regulatory transformation within the financial services industry. With more than a decade of experience, she has led complex optimization initiatives for banks, asset managers, FinTechs, and insurance groups. In addition to designing and implementing end-to-end compliance solutions, Svea has extensive experience leading large-scale compliance investigations, including complex, multi-stakeholder investigations involving advanced data handling, analytics, review, and reporting.
Her project experience spans the full lifecycle—from process design and technical concept development to implementation, testing, and remediation of regulatory findings. Svea has led global remediation programs, designed and calibrated detection scenarios, and developed target operating models for Compliance and AFC functions across retail, corporate, and digital banking. Her areas of expertise include digital onboarding, KYC, customer risk rating, AML and counter-terrorism financing, sanctions and PEP screening, adverse media monitoring, and KPI-driven risk reporting.
Svea holds a Bachelor’s degree in General Management from EBS Business School and a Master’s degree in Strategic Management from Rotterdam School of Management. She also co-authored insights on sanctions compliance oversight for leading industry publications, contributing to the ongoing dialogue on effective regulatory governance and risk management.
