Xolisile Khanyile
Executive Director,
Financial Intelligence Center
Adv Xolisile Khanyile is a career prosecutor having served different roles in law enforcement agencies for a period of 23 years. Xolisile served in a senior position in the Asset Forfeiture Unit and was subsequently appointed by the President of South Africa as a Director of Public Prosecutions.
Since January 2018, she holds the position of Director of the Financial Intelligence Centre (the FIC) of South Africa where she is responsible for the strategic and operational functioning of the FIC ensuring the fulfillment of its mandate both domestically and internationally and represents both the FIC and the Government of South Africa at various international events.
Xolisile holds a B Juris, a LLB and a LLM degree from the University of the Free State. She attended the Duke University African Women Charted Accountants’ Women Leading Africa Programme in 2015.
She currently holds the position of Egmont Group Chair, a position she was appointed to in July 2022.
