Overview

Economic Crime Experts DirectoryWelcome 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:

We hope you find this Directory useful.

Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorist Financing

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

View Dr Azinge-Egbiri's profile

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@greenwich.ac.uk

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@manchester.ac.uk

View Dr Benson's profile

Dr Áine Clancy

Research areas:

  • Corruption
  • Grand corruption
  • Official corruption
  • Proceeds of crime
  • Unexplained wealth

Email: aine.clancy@liverpool.ac.uk

View Dr Clancy's profile

Dr Jonathan Fisher KC

Research areas:

  • Money laundering
  • Terrorist financing
  • Fraud
  • Bribery
  • Organised crime
  • Tax crime
  • Corporate crime
  • Economic sanctions

Email: j.s.fisher@lse.ac.uk

View Dr Fisher's profile

Dr M Michelle Gallant

Research areas:

  • Civil forfeiture
  • Taxation
  • Money laundering
  • Charities

Email: gallantm@umanitoba.ca

View Dr Gallant's profile

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@uwe.ac.uk

LinkedIn profile

View Dr Gilbert's profile

Dr Paul Gilmour

Research areas:

  • Anti-money laundering
  • Beneficial ownership
  • Corporate transparency
  • Tax evasion
  • Offshore jurisdictions
  • Free-trade zones and freeports

Email: paul.gilmour@port.ac.uk

View Dr Gilmour's profile

Dr Bing Han

Research areas:

  • Fraud
  • Romance fraud
  • Southeast fraud compounds
  • Fraud with human trafficking
  • Money laundering
  • Economic crime

Email: bing.han@port.ac.uk

LinkedIn profile

View Dr Han's profile

Professor John Heathershaw

Research areas:

  • Kleptocracy
  • Corruption
  • Political economy
  • Elites
  • Former Soviet Union, Central Asia, UK

Email: j.s.fisher@lse.ac.uk

View Professor Heathershaw's profile

Dr Henry Hillman

Research areas:

  • Money laundering
  • Cryptocurrency

Email: hillmanh@cardiff.ac.uk

View Dr Hillman's profile

Dr Andreas Karapatakis

Research areas:

  • Financial crime
  • Money laundering
  • Fraud
  • Technology
  • Digital economy
  • Crypto assets

Email: a.karapatakis@liverpool.ac.uk

View Dr Karapatakis' profile

Dr Sarah Kebbell

Research areas:

  • Anti-Money Laundering (AML) compliance
  • Legal profession
  • Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) regime

Email: s.kebbell@liverpool.ac.uk

View Dr Kebbell's profile

Dr Samantha Mapston

Research areas:

  • Money laundering
  • Fraud
  • Corporate crime

Email: samantha.mapston@uwe.ac.uk

View Dr Mapston's profile

Dr Axel Palmer

Research areas:

  • Economic crime: Fraud, bribery and corruption

Email: axel.palmer@icloud.com

Professor Nic Ryder

Research areas:

  • Fraud
  • Corporate crime
  • Data sharing
  • Terrorism financing typologies
  • Money laundering

Email: rydern@cardiff.ac.uk

View Professor Ryder's profile

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

View Dr Sclafani's profile

Dr Matthew Shillito

Research areas:

  • Financial crime
  • Anti-money laundering
  • Cryptocurrencies
  • Decentralised autonomous organisations
  • Ransomware
  • Dark web

Email: m.shillito@lancaster.ac.uk

Professor Robert Stokes

Research areas:

  • Corporate crime
  • Money laundering
  • Bribery and corruption
  • Bank confidentiality

Email: rstokes@liverpool.ac.uk

View Professor Stokes' profile

Dr Sue Turner

Research areas:

  • Anti-Money Laundering (AML)
  • Financial regulation

Email: sue.turner@northumbria.ac.uk

View Dr Turner's profile

Professor Umut Turksen

Research areas:

  • Financial crime
  • Illicit flows
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Tax crimes

Email: umut.turksen@coventry.ac.uk

View Professor Turksen's profile

Kathryn Westmore

Research areas:

  • Money laundering
  • Economic crime
  • Financial crime
  • Fraud
  • Illicit finance

Email: kathrynw@rusi.org

View Ms Westmore's profile

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

Email: i.zavoli@leeds.ac.uk

View Dr Zavoli's profile

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

View Ms Allison's profile

Professor Peter Alldridge

Research areas:

  • Legal history
  • Bribery
  • Fraud
  • Tax crime
  • Cyber

Email: p.w.alldridge@qmul.ac.uk

View Dr Alldridge's profile

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@manchester.ac.uk

View Dr Benson's profile

Professor Mark Button

Research areas:

  • Economic crime and security

Email: drmarkbutton@gmail.com

View Dr Button's profile

Dr Jonathan Fisher KC

Research areas:

  • Money laundering
  • Terrorist financing
  • Fraud
  • Bribery
  • Organised crime
  • Tax crime
  • Corporate crime
  • Economic sanctions

Email: j.s.fisher@lse.ac.uk

View Dr Fisher's profile

Dr Bing Han

Research areas:

  • Fraud
  • Romance fraud
  • Southeast fraud compounds
  • Fraud with human trafficking
  • Money laundering
  • Economic crime

Email: bing.han@port.ac.uk

LinkedIn profile

View Dr Han's profile

Dr Branislav Hock

Research areas:

  • Fraud
  • Bribery
  • Money laundering
  • Transnational policing
  • Corporate compliance
  • Collective action

Email: branislav.hock@port.ac.uk 

View Dr Hock's profile

Dr Diana Johnson

Research areas:

  • Fraud
  • Corporate crime
  • Money laundering
  • Competition law

Email: diana.johnson@uwe.ac.uk

View Dr Johnson's profile

Professor Shane Johnson

Research areas:

  • Future crime threats
  • Cyber crime
  • Online fraud
  • Evaluation

Email: shane.johnson@ucl.ac.uk 

View Professor Johnson's profile

Dr Andreas Karapatakis

Research areas:

  • Financial crime
  • Money laundering
  • Fraud
  • Technology
  • Digital economy
  • Crypto assets

Email: a.karapatakis@liverpool.ac.uk

View Dr Karapatakis' profile

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 

Email: r.kassem@aston.ac.uk

View Dr Kassem's profile

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 

View Dr Kerusauskaite's profile

Professor Michael Levi

Research areas:

  • Fraud
  • Money laundering
  • Organised crime
  • Corporate crime
  • Cyber crime
  • Bribery
  • Terrorist finance
  • Tax crime

Email: levi@cardiff.ac.uk 

View Professor Levi's profile

Professor Nicholas Lord

Research areas:

  • White-collar and corporate crimes
  • Financial crimes
  • Frauds
  • Illicit finance
  • Money laundering
  • Bribery
  • Corruption

Email: nicholas.lord@manchester.ac.uk

View Professor Lord's profile

Claire Maillet CFE, FIoL

Research areas:

  • Internal fraud
  • Insider fraud
  • External fraud
  • Fraud operations
  • Fraud risk
  • Empirical
  • FinTechs
  • Financial services

Email: clairemaillet123@gmail.com

View Ms Maillet's profile

Dr Samantha Mapston

Research areas:

  • Money laundering
  • Fraud
  • Corporate crime

Email: samantha.mapston@uwe.ac.uk

View Dr Mapston's profile

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

Email: l.pasculli@ucl.ac.uk

View Dr Pasculli's profile

Professor Nic Ryder

Research areas:

  • Fraud
  • Corporate crime
  • Data sharing
  • Terrorism financing typologies
  • Money laundering

Email: rydern@cardiff.ac.uk

View Professor Ryder's profile

Dr David Shepherd

Research areas:

  • Economic crime
  • Fraud
  • Bribery
  • Intellectual property crime
  • Economic espionage
  • Money laundering
  • Cyber crime
  • Corporate crime

Email: david.shepherd@port.ac.uk

View Dr Shepherd's profile

Kathryn Westmore

Research areas:

  • Money laundering
  • Economic crime
  • Financial crime
  • Fraud
  • Illicit finance

Email: kathrynw@rusi.org

View Ms Westmore's profile

Bribery

Professor Peter Alldridge

Research areas:

  • Legal history
  • Bribery
  • Fraud
  • Tax crime
  • Cyber

Email: p.w.alldridge@qmul.ac.uk

View Dr Alldridge's profile

Dr Áine Clancy

Research areas:

  • Corruption
  • Grand corruption
  • Official corruption
  • Proceeds of crime
  • Unexplained wealth

Email: aine.clancy@liverpool.ac.uk

View Dr Clancy's profile

Dr Branislav Hock

Research areas:

  • Fraud
  • Bribery
  • Money laundering
  • Transnational policing
  • Corporate compliance
  • Collective action

Email: branislav.hock@port.ac.uk 

View Dr Hock's profile

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 

View Dr Kerusauskaite's profile

Dr Christina Philippou

Research areas:

  • Forensic accounting
  • Financial/economic crime

Email: christina.philippou@port.ac.uk 

View Dr Philippou's profile

Dr David Shepherd

Research areas:

  • Economic crime
  • Fraud
  • Bribery
  • Intellectual property crime
  • Economic espionage
  • Money laundering
  • Cyber crime
  • Corporate crime

Email: david.shepherd@port.ac.uk

View Dr Shepherd's profile

Cyber Crime

Dr May Hen

Research areas:

  • Offshore finance
  • Tax havens
  • Blockchain
  • Bitcoin
  • Cryptocurrencies
  • Digital assets
  • Tax evasion

Email: hmh46@cam.ac.uk

View Dr Hen's profile

Dr Henry Hillman

Research areas:

  • Money laundering
  • Cryptocurrency

Email: hillmanh@cardiff.ac.uk

View Dr Hillman's profile

Professor Shane Johnson

Research areas:

  • Future crime threats
  • Cyber crime
  • Online fraud
  • Evaluation

Email: shane.johnson@ucl.ac.uk 

View Professor Johnson's profile

Dr Alison Lui

Research areas:

  • Financial regulation
  • FinTech
  • AI regulation
  • Financial crime

Email: a.lui@ljmu.ac.uk

View Dr Lui's profile

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

Email: l.pasculli@ucl.ac.uk

View Dr Pasculli's profile

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@manchester.ac.uk

View Dr Davies' profile

Dr Karina Garcia-Reyes

Research areas:

  • Drug trade
  • Latin America
  • Drug cartels
  • Drug policies

Email: karina.garcia-reyes@uwe.ac.uk

View Dr Garcia-Reyes' profile

Dr Alexander Kupatadze

Research areas:

  • Organised crime
  • Crime-terror nexus
  • Illicit trade

Email: alexander.kupatadze@kcl.ac.uk

View Dr Kupatadze's profile

Dr Tim McSweeney

Research areas:

  • Organised crime
  • Policing
  • Courts
  • Sentencing
  • Supervision
  • Prison

Email: timothy.mcsweeney@aru.ac.uk

View Dr McSweeney's profile

Dr Amber Phillips

Research areas:

  • Asset recovery
  • Confiscation
  • Mafia-type crime
  • Social reuse of confiscated assets

Email: amber.phillips@uwe.ac.uk

View Dr Phillips' profile

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

View Dr Sclafani's profile

Tax Crime

Dr M Michelle Gallant

Research areas:

  • Civil forfeiture
  • Taxation
  • Money laundering
  • Charities

Email: gallantm@umanitoba.ca

View Dr Gallant's profile

Dr Paul Gilmour

Research areas:

  • Anti-money laundering
  • Beneficial ownership
  • Corporate transparency
  • Tax evasion
  • Offshore jurisdictions
  • Free-trade zones and freeports

Email: paul.gilmour@port.ac.uk

View Dr Gilmour's profile

Dr May Hen

Research areas:

  • Offshore finance
  • Tax havens
  • Blockchain
  • Bitcoin
  • Cryptocurrencies
  • Digital assets
  • Tax evasion

Email: hmh46@cam.ac.uk

View Dr Hen's profile

Dr Andy Summers

Research areas:

  • Tax policy
  • Tax administration and compliance
  • Asset registers
  • Beneficial ownership
  • Transparency

Email: a.d.summers@lse.ac.uk

View Dr Summers' profile

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@greenwich.ac.uk

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@manchester.ac.uk

View Dr Davies' profile

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@uwe.ac.uk

LinkedIn profile

View Dr Gilbert's profile

Dr Diana Johnson

Research areas:

  • Fraud
  • Corporate crime
  • Money laundering
  • Competition law

Email: diana.johnson@uwe.ac.uk

View Dr Johnson's profile

Professor Nicholas Lord

Research areas:

  • White-collar and corporate crimes
  • Financial crimes
  • Frauds
  • Illicit finance
  • Money laundering
  • Bribery
  • Corruption

Email: nicholas.lord@manchester.ac.uk

View Professor Lord's profile

Dr Axel Palmer

Research areas:

  • Economic crime: Fraud, bribery and corruption

Email: axel.palmer@icloud.com

Professor Robert Stokes

Research areas:

  • Corporate crime
  • Money laundering
  • Bribery and corruption
  • Bank confidentiality

Email: rstokes@liverpool.ac.uk

View Professor Stokes' profile

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

APPG on Anti-Corruption & Responsible Tax

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."

Email: national.coordinatorsoffice@cityoflondon.police.uk

City of London Police

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.

Home Office

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

Financial Conduct Authority

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."

Email: anti-moneylaunderingbranch@hmtreasury.gov.uk

HM Treasury

Ipsos MORI

“Global leader in market research, Ipsos delivers reliable information and true understanding of Society, Markets and People.”

Email: hannah.shrimpton@ipsos.com

Ipsos MORI

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

NECC

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

Open Ownership

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

Spotlight on Corruption

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

Tax Justice Network

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