Maya Lester KC is a barrister at Brick Court Chambers, specialising in sanctions law (& public & competition law). She represents and advises companies, individuals and governments before the English and European courts (as a member of the English and Irish Bar) and has acted in most of the leading cases. She founded and co-writes the blog www.globalsanctions.co.uk (the main international sanctions legal resource, with over 11,000 followers worldwide). Maya has given evidence to four parliamentary inquiries on sanctions and spoken at numerous conferences and is the legal directories’ only Star Individual for sanctions.