Derek R. Sambrook is a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners in the United Kingdom and obtained the Trustee Diploma of the Institute of Bankers in South Africa in 1973, becoming a Fellow of the institute in 1996.  

He emigrated in 1977 from Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) where he was branch manager of a trust company and has continued his profession in North America (Miami), Europe (including London and the Channel Islands), and the Caribbean (including the Cayman Islands).  

He has lived in Panama since 1996 where he is the Managing Director of Trust Services, S.A. (www.trustservices.net), a Panamanian trust company and Treasurer of the Panama-British Business Association. 

Mr Sambrook’s regulatory experience began in the corporate division of the Rhodesian Ministry of Justice (1965-1970) and subsequently he was appointed by the British government (1989-1992) as the first Bank, Trust Company and Insurance Regulator in the Turks & Caicos Islands, British West Indies; he established a regulatory body and drafted trust and insurance laws, banking and other regulations including licensing guidelines.  

During his tenure he was also a member of the Latin American and Caribbean Banking Commission and Chairman of the government’s Offshore Financial Services Committee.  

He has been a columnist for a leading United Kingdom offshore financial journal since 2002 and also writes two newsletters, Offshore Pilot Quarterly and Letter from Panama.