Meg Zucker

VP, Head of US Financial Crime Advisory, RBC

Meg Zucker has thirty years of Financial Crime experience and is the VP and Head of U.S. Financial Crimes, overseeing the Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Economic Sanctions and Anti-Corruption/Anti-Bribery (ABAC) programs across the CUSO. Prior to that, Meg was a Managing Director and responsible for RBC Capital Markets, Wealth Management and I&TS U.S. AML programs, as well as had oversight in support of the RBC Intermediate Holding Company’s AML program. Meg initially joined RBC Capital Markets in April 2014 as its Global Capital Markets Anti-Money Laundering Head.

Prior to RBC, Meg joined PIMCO in September 2011 as its global AML, anti-corruption and economic sanctions officer and was the primary AML and ABAC liaison for the Firm’s office in Brazil. Prior to joining PIMCO, Meg was an AML senior manager and counsel for Morgan Stanley for over 13 years. During her tenure, Meg headed the Firm’s AML program for its institutional and wealth management businesses and was the primary implementer for all USA PATRIOT programs as well as Morgan Stanley’s Enterprise OFAC program. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Meg worked in AML in the Legal & Compliance departments at Barclays Capital and at Goldman Sachs. Meg was a private industry contributor to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Guidance for the Securities Sector issued in the Fall of 2018 and a prior co-chair of SIFMA’s AML Committee.

In addition to Meg’s professional role and being a widely recognized public speaker, she is the President and Founder of Don’t Hide It, Flaunt It (www.donthideitflauntit.org), a national 501(c)(3) non-profit that works in collaboration with Scholastic Inc. to provide empathy/Social Emotional Learning in schools across the U.S. as well as provides other acceptance, empathy and belonging programs to Universities, Fortune 500 companies and underserved communities. Meg’s book, Born Extraordinary: Empowering Children with Differences and Disabilities was published by Penguin Random House in March 2023 and received a “Shining Star” Best Social Science Books of the Year recognition by the Library Journal.

Meg received her JD from NYU School of Law, her BA in History from University of Wisconsin-Madison, is a member of the NY Bar and has her Series 7, 63 and 24 FINRA registrations. A former co-chair, Meg is also an active member of the SIFMA AML & Financial Crimes Committee and is on its annual conference sub-committee.