Chandana Seshadri is an independent researcher and investigative analyst specialising in the convergence of sanctions, financial crime, and cyber threats, with a strong focus on North Korea. Her work examines how illicit actors exploit global systems through identity abuse, sanctions evasion, and cyber-enabled financial crime, and she has advised governments, financial institutions, and multilateral organisations on strengthening counter-proliferation finance and sanctions compliance.

Her expertise includes North Korean IT worker infiltration tactics, laundering in fiat and crypto, proliferation finance typologies, and vulnerabilities in identity and compliance systems across financial and non-financial sectors.

Previously, Chandana was a Research Analyst at the Centre for Finance and Security at RUSI and a Research Assistant at the Centre for Science and Security Studies at King’s College London, where she conducted open-source network analysis to support enhanced sanctions implementation.