Why Do Ethics Matter? | Shefali Roy

Having spent the majority of her career in ethics and compliance, Roy elaborates on the importance of ethics, according to her an inherent and necessary component of business, yet one that is often overlooked. Citing numerous case studies, she emphasizes that the means of obtaining financial gain ethically should never be trivialized or overlooked.

Shefali Roy is the former Chief Compliance Of cer (Europe) and Money Laundering Reporting Of cer for Stripe, a technology company based in San Francisco that facilitates payments online. Prior to Stripe, Shefali headed up Compliance, Business Conduct, and Risk across Europe, the Middle East, India, and Africa for Apple, was the Chief Compliance and Ethics Of cer for Christie’s worldwide, and was responsible for private wealth compliance for Goldman Sachs across Europe. She has undergraduate- ate quali cations in law, economics and nance and postgraduate quali cations in journalism and economic history, from RMIT, Oxford, and the LSE respectively. She is currently undertaking an EMBA from Oxford’s Said Business School. In 2016, Shefali was named on Innovate Finance’s Global Most Powerful Women in FinTech List. She sits on the Boards of Ada’s list - a woman in the technology network - and Photoworks - a photography collective.