Speaker 1: Hana Lesenarova, Head of Business Intelligence Unit for Europe, Deutsche Bank
Hana Lesenarova is the Head of the Business Intelligence Unit for Europe at Deutsche Bank, where she oversees enhanced due diligence and intelligence analysis for sensitive clients and transactions across the region. Her work focuses on identifying reputational, regulatory, and geopolitical risks through complex investigative research and intelligence methodologies. Prior to joining Deutsche Bank, Hana led the Central Europe practice at Control Risks for over a decade, advising multinational clients on corporate intelligence, investigations, and risk management. Earlier in her career she worked in business intelligence roles with firms such as Kroll and other investigative consultancies, and spent more than a decade as a business journalist covering Central Europe. With more than two decades of experience at the intersection of corporate intelligence, compliance, and investigative due diligence, Hana frequently speaks at international forums on topics including beneficial ownership transparency, third-party risk, and the evolving role of intelligence in financial institutions.
Speaker 2: Christof Strejcek, Senior Compliance Officer at the European Investment Bank
Christof Strejcek is a Senior Compliance Officer at the European Investment Bank (EIB), where he works within the Compliance Strategy Division of the Office of the Chief Compliance Officer (OCCO). In this role, he develops and maintains the EIB’s compliance systems and tools. Previously, Christof worked in Operations Compliance at the EIB, serving as Second Line of Defence on complex cases and providing compliance opinions to the Bank’s governing bodies. Before joining the EIB, he spent several years at Control Risks, specializing in corporate intelligence, integrity due diligence, and fraud investigations across Europe, with a particular focus on Central and Eastern Europe. He led and supported assignments assessing reputational, integrity, and corruption risks involving companies, individuals, and investment projects, and took part in on-site fraud investigations using investigative research, forensic interviews, and digital forensics. Christof holds degrees in Eastern European Studies from Freie Universität Berlin and in International Business from Hochschule Osnabrück and Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena.
