Anna Goubault

Director

Anna Goubault was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority on 7 February 2023.

Ms. Goubault has over 18 years’ experience in the financial services industry, having practiced law for more than 12 years, advising on the development and maintaining the Cayman Islands financial services legislative framework in a manner that is consistent with international regulatory standards, and has served as an independent director on the boards of investment funds and related structures since 2021. Ms. Goubault brings significant experience, from a governance perspective and in relation to Cayman Islands regulatory compliance and legal issues.

Ms. Goubault currently serves as an independent director at Calderwood, a fund governance and compliance firm headquartered in the Cayman Islands, where she accepts appointments on the boards of investment funds and related structures, advising on corporate governance and regulatory compliance. 

As a financial services regulatory and legal consultant, Ms. Goubault advised the Ministry of Financial Services on the development and introduction of several key pieces of financial services legislation, including the legislation relating to compliance with the global standards on economic substance and the enhancements to the domestic regulatory regime for investment funds.

Prior to that, Ms Goubault was an attorney at Maples, an international law firm in the Cayman Islands and, before that, Ogier in the Cayman Islands. Ms. Goubault represented some of these firm’s most prominent hedge fund, fund-of-funds and private equity clients and provided advice on matters concerning fund structuring, establishment, ongoing legal and regulatory compliance, fund governance and the establishment and operation of investment management entities in the Cayman Islands as well as general corporate advice regarding their respective ongoing operations.

Ms. Goubault is an honours graduate in law from the University of Liverpool, England and completed her Professional Practitioner’s Course (Cayman Islands) with Queen’s University Belfast. Ms. Goubault qualified as an attorney in the Cayman Islands in 2005. Prior to that she received a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Loyola University, New Orleans, USA.

Ms. Goubault is also a notary public in the Cayman Islands and has served as a board member of the National Pensions Board and the Caymanian Bar Association. Ms. Goubault is currently the secretary and a director of Feed Our Future, a not-for-profit organisation.