Alma is an advocate of the High Court of Kenya. She serves in AML-THB as a senior technical advisor and editor-in-chief.
Alma has previously worked as the Head of Counter financing of Terrorism and Anti Money Laundering at the Joint Counter…

Terrorism Analysis Centre where she was involved in carrying out financial investigations; carrying out financial crime risk assessments; conducting investigations on transnational organised crime linked to terror financing; mapping out the country in relation to terrorism financing; creating financial profiles of individuals and entities; liaising with external partners through Mutual Legal Assistance (MLA); and liaising with relevant institutions.

She has engaged in various consultancies including conducting training in Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh and Delivery of a complete course on “Physical Transportation of money” in Amman, Jordan. Her other consultancies include Global Programme against Money Laundering, Proceeds Of Crime and Counter Financing of Terrorism (GPML) Consultants conference in Vienna, Austria; Training Needs Analysis on the Nexus between Human Trafficking and Money Laundering and Counter Financing of Terrorism. In the framework of the previous AML/CFT project in the GHoA, she has provided her thematic and regional expertise, notably for Institutional training activities in relation to Countering the Finance of Terrorism, or the Conversion of Intelligence to Evidence. She holds a Bachelor of Law degree from the Catholic University of Eastern Africa, a Post Graduate Diploma in Law, a Master’s Degree in Strategic and Security Studies, and a Post Graduate Diploma in Strategic and Security Studies from the University of Nairobi.