Friday 10 September 2021

Combating corruption and financial crime in partnership – international stability, security and development

Under the auspices of the Centre of Development Studies, University of Cambridge


Plenary workshops


Combating corruption and financial crime in partnership – international stability, security and development

Under the auspices of the Centre of Development Studies, University of Cambridge

Keynote addresses

  • Chair: Dr Ingrida Kerusauskaite, Affiliated Lecturer, Centre of Development Studies, University of Cambridge and Portfolio Lead, Anti-Corruption and Illicit Financial Flows, Palladium, London, UK

  • Professor Barry Rider, Founder and Executive Director and Co-Chairman of the Symposium and Professorial Fellow, Centre of Development Studies, University of Cambridge and former Chief Commonwealth Fraud Officer and Head of the Commonwealth Commercial Crime Unit, Commonwealth Secretariat, UK

  • Dr Shailaja Fennell, Reader in Regional Development and Economic Security, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge and Fellow and Graduate Tutor of Jesus College, Cambridge, UK

  • Professor Mads Andenas QC, Professor of Law, University of Oslo, Norway; Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of European and Comparative Law, University of Oxford and former Visiting Fellow of All Souls’ College, Oxford and Director of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law; Director of the Centre for Corporate Law, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London; United Nations Human Rights Mandate Holder and Chair-Rapporteur of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and Master of the Bench of the Inner Temple, Norway

Session 15: Sifting through fake news: the role of research and academia in fighting financial crime

  • Chair: Dr Ingrida Kerusauskaite, Affiliated Lecturer, Centre of Development Studies, University of Cambridge and Portfolio Lead, Anti-Corruption and Illicit Financial Flows, Palladium, London, UK

  • Professor Paul Heywood, Sir Francis Hill Professor of European Politics, School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham, Programme Director, Global Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence Programme and Trustee, Transparency International, UK

  • Professor Elizabeth David-Barrett, Professor of Governance and Integrity, University of Sussex, and Director of the Centre for the Study of Corruption, UK

  • Mr Phil Mason, Anti-Corruption Specialist and former Senior Advisor in Anti-Corruption Policy for Department for International Development, UK

  • Ms Tuesday Reitano, Deputy Director, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime, Switzerland

  • Mr James Sparrow, Associate, Governance, Palladium UK

Dr Arne Strand, Director, U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, Norway

Session 16: Establishing mutually beneficial partnerships: private sector and regulator collaboration

  • Chair: Mr Saul M Froomkin QC, Chairman of the Symposium, Director, Special Counsel, Christopher E Swan & Co, Bermuda and former Attorney General of Bermuda

  • Ms Alexandra Maddy, Head of Business Integrity, CDC Group plc, London, UK

  • Mr Tom Keatinge, Director, Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, Royal United Services Institute, (RUSI), UK and formerly Managing Director, Financial Institutions Group and Head of European Public Sector, JP Morgan, UK

  • Mr Richard Parlour, Principal, Financial Markets Law International, UK

  • Ms Jekaterina Govina, Executive Director of Financial Sector Supervision Service at Bank of Lithuania, Lithuania

  • Dr Diane Bugeja, Senior Associate in Financial Services Law, Financial Regulation and Anti-Money Laundering Regulation, Camilleri Preziosi Advocates, UK and Malta

  • Professor Louis de Koker, Professor of Law, La Trobe Law School, College of Arts, Social Science and Commerce, La Trobe University, Australia

  • Ms Elena Kalaitzi, Manager, Forensic Financial Crime, KPMG and former Money Laundering Reporting Office, Emporiki Bank Cyprus Ltd, UK

  • Dr Daniele Canestri, former Financial Crime manager, Global Financial Crime Team, Barclays plc, UK

  • Dr Ines Sofia Oliveira, Analyst, Policy, Financial Action Task Force (FATF), France

  • Ms Rasha Laswi, Partner, Andersen Tax and Legal, Jordan

Session 17: Moving beyond an ‘us and them’ approach: fostering a collaborative approach to law enforcement

  • Chair: Ms Jennifer Hutchinson, Manager in Governance, Palladium International, UK

  • Mr Jonathan Benton, Founder and Director, Intelligent Sanctuary and former   Head of UK's International Corruption Unit, National Crime Agency and Proceeds of Corruption Unit, Metropolitan Police Service, UK

  • The Hon Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa, Executive Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Nigeria

  • Professor Cheyanne Church, Co-Director, Corruption, Justice and Legitimacy Programme and Professor of Practice in Aid Effectiveness, The Fletcher School, Tufts University, Canada

  • Professor Antonello Miranda, Professor of Comparative Law and Dean of the School of Social Sciences, University of Palermo, Italy 

  • Dr Peter German QC, President, International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy, Vancouver, Canada and Advisor, office of the Attorney General, British Columbia, former Deputy Commissioner and Director General of the Financial Crime Division, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Canada

  • Ms Victoria Ayer, Training Director, Rule of Law Collaborative, University of South Carolina and independent expert on Anti-Corruption, USA 

  • Mr Lawrence Day, CEO and Founder of the AML Consulting (Global) Group & Cognitas Global Ltd and formerly Accredited Financial Investigator with the Metropolitan Police, UK

Session 18: International partnerships and collaboration

  • Chair: Dr Ingrida Kerusauskaite, Affiliated Lecturer, Centre of Development Studies, University of Cambridge and Portfolio Lead, Anti-Corruption and Illicit Financial Flows, Palladium, London, UK

  • Mr Charlie Richiardi, SOCnet - Illicit Finance Policy Lead, Panama and Overseas Territories, British Embassy Panama, Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office, UK

  • Mr Francesco de Simone, Jamaica State Modernization Specialist, Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) and former Technical Advisor / Administrator, Transparency Trust Fund (formerly Anti-Corruption Activities Trust Fund), Jamaica

  • Dr Manfredas Limantas, Anti-Corruption and Justice Sector Manager and Programme Lead, European Commission to Ukraine 

  • Mr Gideon Mankralo, Network Manager Ghana and Nigeria, Alliance for Integrity, Ghana

  • Ms Dania Khayyat, Team Leader, Jordan Strengthening Rule of Law project, Palladium, Jordan

Professor Eiji Oyamada, Graduate School of Global Studies, Doshisha University, Japan

Closing remarks

  • Dr Ingrida Kerusauskaite, Affiliated Lecturer, Centre of Development Studies, University of Cambridge and Portfolio Lead, Anti-Corruption, Palladium, London, UK

  • Professor Chizu Nakajima, Co-Chair of the British Japanese Law Association, Co-Director of the Symposium, Professor of International and Comparative Law, BPP University, Affiliated Lecturer, University of Cambridge, and Emeritus Professor of Corporate Law and Governance, London Metropolitan University, UK

  • Mr Saul M Froomkin QC, Chairman of the Symposium, Director, Special Counsel, Christopher E Swan & Co, Bermuda

  • Professor Barry Rider, Founder and Executive Director and Co-Chairman of the Symposium and Professorial Fellow, Centre of Development Studies, University of Cambridge and former Chief Commonwealth Fraud Officer and Head of the Commonwealth Commercial Crime Unit, Commonwealth Secretariat, UK

Return to the top of the page


Plenary workshop 25: Will data be the next frontier in solving financial crime and recovering the proceeds of crime?

  • Chair: Mr Jonathan Benton, Founder and Director, Intelligent Sanctuary, UK and former Head of UK's International Corruption Unit, National Crime Agency and Proceeds of Corruption Unit, Metropolitan Police Service, UK

  • Mr Sean Mason, Senior Financial Investigator, Intelligent Sanctuary UK

  • Mr Gavin Mee, Intelligence Analyst, Intelligent Sanctuary UK

Return to the top of the page


Plenary workshop 26: Security and conflict in Europe - analysing UK/EU defence post-Brexit

Under the auspices of the Atlantic Council of the United Kingdom

  • Chair: Mr Dennis Hartshorne, Chairman, Atlantic Council of the United Kingdom

  • Mr Andrew Budd, Head of Plans Section, Operations Division, NATO

  • Mr Jack Davies, Associate, Kirkland & Ellis International LLP, Research Fellow, Atlantic Council of the United Kingdom

Return to the top of the page


Plenary workshop 27: Behavioural science: A tool for effective compliance

  • Chair: Ms Amanda Raad, Partner, Ropes and Gray LLP, London, UK

  • Ms Judith Seddon, Partner, Ropes and Gray, London, UK

  • Mr Zach Coseglia, Managing Principal and Head of Innovation, R&G Insights Lab, Ropes and Gray LLP USA

  • Ms Rachel Coyle, Managing Director, EMEA, The Behavioural Insights Team, London, UK

  • Ms Laura Atherton, Vice President, Ethics & Compliance, GlaxoSmithKline LLC, UK

Return to the top of the page


Plenary workshop 29: Cross-border asset recovery - model building, funding, investigation and recovery

  • Chair: Mr Martin Kenney, founder and Managing Partner, Martin Kenney and Co, Solicitors, British Virgin Island and Member, ICC-Fraudnet

  • Mr Babajide Ogundipe, Senior Partner, Sofunde, Osakwe, Ogundipe and Belgore, Nigeria and Co-executive Director, ICC-FraudNet

  • Mr Michele Caratsch, Partner, Baldi and Caratsch, Switzerland and Co-executive Director, ICC FraudNet

  • Ms Pernille Bigaard, Head, Insolvency Law, Plesner Law Firm, Denmark and Member, ICC-FraudNet

  • Mr James Mather, Barrister, Serle Court, London, UK

Return to the top of the page


Plenary workshop 30: The Dark Web: myths, legends and criminal use of AI

  • Chair: Mr Richard Parlour, Principal, Financial Markets Law International and Chair, EU Task Force on Cyberspace Policy for the Financial Sector, UK

  • Mr Dave Porter, Associate Partner, Cognitive Solutions, IBM, UK

  • Mr Vincent White, UK Director, Facepoint, UK

  • Dr Dionysios Demetis, Lecturer in Management Systems, Hull University Business SchoolCentre for Systems Studies, Hull University, UK and Visiting Professor, Texas A&M University, USA 

  • Professor Ian Angel, Department of Management, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

  • Dr Tolga Kurt, Managing Director, H3M, Canada

  • Mr Trevor Bedeman, Partner, London Risk, UK

Return to the top of the page


Plenary workshop 32: The dark side of business – an Italian perspective

  • Chair: Professor Antonello Miranda, Professor of Comparative Law and Dean of the School of Social Sciences, University of Palermo, Italy

  • Professor Paola Maggio, Professor of Criminal Law, University of Palermo, Italy

  • Professor Francesco Parisi, Professor of Criminal Law, University of Bologna, Italy

  • Dr Andrea Merlo, Assistant Professor of Criminal Law, University of Palermo, Italy

  • Professor Gabriella Marcatajo, Professor of Private and Environmental Law, Department of Political Sciences and International Studies, University of Palermo, Italy

  • Dr Sara Rigazio, Assistant Professor of International Private Law, Department of Political Sciences and International Studies, University of Palermo, Italy

  • Dr Livio Corsello, Researcher, Department of Political Sciences and International Studies, University of Palermo, Italy

  • Dr Luisa Schiera, Researcher, University of Palermo, Italy 

  • Dr Marta Bono, Researcher, University of Palermo, Italy 

  • Dr Nicoletta Patti, Researcher, University of Palermo, Italy 

  • Dr Rosamaria Tristano, Researcher, University of Palermo, Italy 

  • Dr Alessandro Arcobasso, Researcher, University of Madrid, Spain

  • Avv. Maria Bruccoleri, Financial Crimes and Compliance Lawyer, Studio Legale, Milan, Italy

Return to the top of the page