Anna Schmitt

Associate Director, UK

Anna has over eight years’ experience working within the business intelligence and investigations sector in the UK and Germany, helping clients to solve complex problems.

She has extensive experience managing multijurisdictional investigations, source of wealth investigations, asset tracing-, and stakeholder mapping exercises often in support of international litigation and arbitration proceedings. Anna’s experience also includes bribery and corruption investigations and investigations into the instigators of black PR campaigns.

Fluent in her native German and Russian, Anna has a detailed understanding of the politics and economies of the countries of the former Soviet Union, having extensively travelled and worked in the FSU region.

Prior to joining CT Group, Anna worked in a senior role at an international media and privacy law firm in London, where she worked with legal partners to provide strategic advice to multinational corporates, family offices, and high-net-worth individuals in relation to reputational and privacy issues.

Anna holds degrees in Russian and Politics from Queen Mary University of London and the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies. She also holds a MSc in Forensic Accounting from the University of Portsmouth.