Sarah Keeling

Practice Areas

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

Career

Sarah Keeling, a StoneTurn Board Member and Partner, is a former senior British government official with more than three decades of experience in national security and geopolitical risk issues globally. She assists the Boards of corporates, family offices, PE firms, and alternative asset funds, and their counsel on strategies for managing operational, reputational and investment risk, and security matters worldwide.

Sarah brings significant expertise conducting complex, multi-jurisdictional anti-bribery and corruption investigations, and asset-tracing and recovery. She 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. Sarah has served as a trusted adviser to Boards on their strategies in the Middle East, Iran, and Sub-Saharan Africa in Russian and FSU. She advises clients in the infrastructure, energy, pharmaceuticals, financial services, and technology sectors on entering or operating in high-risk emerging markets and specialises in terrorist financing, piracy, and maritime security issues.

Prior to StoneTurn, Sarah was a Managing Director of Aegis Defence Services where she acted as the Senior Advisor for Lloyds of London on Piracy and chaired the Risk & Security Management Forum. Subsequently, she built and led the new EMEA Global Risk and Investigations practice at FTI Consulting, and then led the investigations and strategic intelligence EMEA practice at Berkeley Research Group.

Professional Memberships

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

Publications

Fools Make Feasts and Wise Men Eat Them, T4L Private Client (June 2024)

Mastering The High Stakes of Insider Risk Management (May 2024)

Adapting to a Dynamic Risk Landscape with Insider Threats, Today's Risk Manager (March 2024)

Navigating the Shifting Risk Landscape: Insider Threats and Global Challenges (February 2024, video)

Can understanding insider risk help to prevent fraud? (Nov 2023)

Looking for a Trusted Advisor? Tatler (July 2023)

Risk guide: how to create the right culture to tackle people-related risks, Strategic Risk Magazine (July 2023)

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).

Languages Spoken

French, German, Farsi

Education