Anna Hensel

Prior to joining Kroll, Anna worked in the forensics practice at a Big Four firm in both the Middle East and Europe. Much of her career earlier on included leading various initiatives in business development, external affairs, commercial and corporate strategy within the energy sector, working for two major oil companies.

Anna is a client relationship leader, responsible for driving business growth and providing tailored guidance and advice. She specializes in recommending expert advisory solutions to meet each client's unique needs.

In this role, she supports law firms and corporations in conducting complex investigations and remediations, and implementing practices to prevent, detect and respond to sanctions violations, workplace misconduct, corruption, fraud and other financial crimes. Anna brings substantial expertise collaborating with companies’ legal and regulatory teams, as well as external counsel, to help assess regulatory exposure, manage self-reporting issues and drive the necessary remediation steps.

In addition, Anna partners with clients’ M&A and commercial teams, often alongside legal counsel, to ensure risk factors are carefully considered within the transaction process. This also includes navigating issues that surface post transaction close, providing strategic guidance to mitigate risks and safeguard organizational interests.

She has published several articles related to the oil and gas sector, transparency and corruption initiatives.

Anna holds a bachelor’s degree from American University’s School of International Service and is a recipient of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation fellowship for graduate studies at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.