Amy E. Lashinsky

Amy Lashinsky is the co-founder and Chief Executive of Alaco, an international risk management company. She has over three decades’ experience advising multinationals, financial institutions, and investors on matters such as reputational risk and ESG criteria, delivering intelligence to support transactions around the world, particularly in emerging markets. She also works with global law firms and their clients to help enforce judgments brought about through arbitration or litigation.

Ms. Lashinsky trained as a securities analyst on Wall Street before joining Kroll in New York in 1985. She moved to London in 1988 to help establish Kroll’s first overseas office, where she became Managing Director of its business intelligence unit. In 1995 Ms. Lashinsky set up her own firm, Asmara Limited, which was sold to NYSE-listed Armor Holdings in 1998. She co-founded Alaco in 2002.

Ms. Lashinsky is a dual US/UK citizen and is a Trustee of the Rathbones Folio Prize. She graduated from the University of Michigan with BA in Political Science and Economics.