Monday 6 September 2021


Keynote speeches, welcome addresses, opening addresses, and keynote addresses

Keynote speeches

Chair: Mr Saul Froomkin QC, Chairman of the Symposium

Welcome Addresses

  • Professor Barry A.K. Rider, founder, Executive Director and Co-Chairman of the Symposium, Professorial Fellow, Centre of Development Studies, University of Cambridge, UK

  • Mr Saul Froomkin QC, Chairman of the Symposium

  • Professor Sir Ivan Lawrence QC, Barrister, Co-Chairman of the Symposium, Professor of Criminal Law, BPP University and the University of Buckingham, former Member of Parliament and Chairman of the Home Affairs Committee, House of Commons, former Recorder of the Crown Court and Master of the Bench of the Inner Temple, UK

  • Mr Michael Ashe QC SC, Barrister, Addington Chambers, Co-Chairman of the Symposium; Visiting Professor of Law, BPP University; Master of the Bench of the Middle Temple, UK and former Recorder of the Crown Court, England and Wales, UK

Opening Addresses

  • Chair: Mr Saul Froomkin QC, Chairman of the Symposium

  • The Rt Hon The Lord Mayor of the City of London, Alderman William Russell, Alderman and former Sheriff of the City of London, UK

  • Mr John Glen MP, Economic Secretary to the Treasury and Minister with special responsibility for the City of London, HM Treasury, UK

Keynote Addresses

  • Chair: Mr Saul Froomkin QC, Chairman of the Symposium

  • Mr Charles Randell, Chair of the Financial Conduct Authority, former Member, Prudential Regulation Committee; Chair, Audit Risk Committee, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and Partner, Slaughter and May; Visiting Fellow, Queen Mary University of London, UK

  • Mr Graeme Biggar, Director General, National Economic Crime Centre, National Crime Agency, former Director, National Security and Chief of Staff to the Defence Secretary, Government of the UK

  • Sheriff and Alderman Professor Michael Mainelli, Alderman of the City of London and Executive Chairman of Z/Yen Group, Emeritus Mercers’ School Memorial Professor of Commerce, Gresham College and former Director, Defence Evaluation and Research Agency, Ministry of Defence, UK 

  • Mr John Carroll, Chief Operating Officer, Serious Fraud Office of England, Wales and Northern Ireland, UK

  • Mr Ryuji Kawahara, Director General, Criminal Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Justice, Japan  presented by Mr Masayuki Otake First Secretary Embassy of Japan, London, UK

  • Mr Andrew Penhale, Head, Specialist Fraud Division, Crown Prosecution Service for England and Wales, UK

  • Mr Simon York, Director, Fraud Investigation Service, HM Revenue and Customs, UK

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

  • Mr Clinton Blackburn, T/Commander, Financial Crime Directorate, City of London Police 

  • Mr Alexis Boon, Commander, Central Specialist Crime, Metropolitan Police Service, UK

  • Professor William Hurst, Chong Hua Professor of Chinese Development, Department of Politics and International Studies, Director, Centre of Development Studies and Fellow, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, UK 

  • The Lord Hogan-Howe, former Commissioner, Metropolitan Police Service, UK

  • Mr Martin Kreutner, Dean Emeritus, The International Anti-Corruption Academy, formerly Special Adviser, Ministry of the Interior and Director of the Federal Bureau for International Affairs, Government of Austria

Mr Don Fort, Director of Investigations, Kostelanetz and Fink LLP and former, Chief, Criminal Chief, Criminal Investigations Internal Revenue Service, US Department of Treasury, Washington DC, USA

Sheriff and Alderman Professor Michael Mainelli, Alderman of the City of London and Executive Chairman of Z/Yen Group, Emeritus Mercers’ School Memorial Professor of Commerce, Gresham College and former Director, Defence Evaluation and Research Agency, Ministry of Defence, UK

Mrs Christine Gellegrant Hagberg, Director General, Swedish Enforcement Authority, Sweden

Mr David Lewis, Executive Secretary, Financial Action Task Force (FATF), Paris, France

Mr Jerome Beaumont, Executive Secretary, Egmont Group, Ottawa, Canada


Session 1: The cost of economic crime - to us all

  • Chair: Mr Saul Froomkin QC, Chairman of the Symposium

  • Sir David Green QC, Senior Consultant, Slaughter and May, London and former Director, Serious Fraud Office of England, Wales and Northern Ireland, UK 

  • Mr Owen Rowland, Head of Economic Crime Reform Unit, Homeland Security Group, Home Office, UK 

  • Mr Adrian Foster, Chief Crown Prosecutor, Proceeds of Crime, Crown Prosecution Service, 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

  • Mr Philippe de Koster, Deputy Director, Belgium Financial Intelligence Processing Unit CTIF-CFI, Belgium

The Hon Dr Giuseppe Lumia, former Member of the Italian Senate and former President of the Italian Parliamentary Anti-Mafia Commission, Italy

Dr Rick Brown, Deputy Director, Australian Institute of Criminology, Government of Australia

Dr Asanga Abeyagoonasekera, Director General, Institute of National Security Studies, Sri Lanka

Dr Torplus Yomnak, Lecturer, Faculty of Economics, Chulalongkorn University and member of the Executive Board, Anti-Corruption Organisation, Thailand


Session 2: How can we better prevent economic crime and what are the costs?

  • Chair: Mr Michael Ashe QC SC, Barrister, Addington Chambers, Co-Chairman of the Symposium; Visiting Professor of Law, BPP University; Master of the Bench of the Middle Temple, UK and former Recorder of the Crown Court of England and Wales, UK

  • Mr Ameet Kabrawala, Regional Resident Legal Advisor, US Department of Justice, US Embassy, Riga, Latvia

  • Mr Oliver Wuensch, Strategic Advisor, Oliver Wyman, Switzerland

  • Mr Patrick Moulette, Head, Anti-corruption Division, Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs, OECD, France

  • Professor Michael Levi, Professor of Criminology, Cardiff University, member, UK Cabinet Office Counter Fraud Cross Sector Advisory Board, Council of Europe’s Criminological and Scientific Council and advisor to the Home Office, UK 

  • The Hon Mr Claude Nicati, Lawyer, Neuchâtel Bar and former Deputy General Prosecutor of Switzerland and President of the Government of the Republic and Canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland

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

  • Mr David Kirk, Consultant, RS Legal Strategy and former Chief Criminal Counsel, Enforcement and Financial Crime, Financial Services Authority, UK 

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

  • Professor Philip Rutledge, Partner, Bybel and Rutledge LLP, Visiting Professor of Securities Law, BPP University and former Chief Counsel, Pennsylvania Securities Commission, USA

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

Professor Ernesto Savona, Professor of Criminology, Catholic University of Milan and Director of Transcrime, Italy

Mr Albert van Zyl, Programme Leader, Forensic Accountancy, School of Accounting Sciences, North-West University, South Africa

Mr Paul Heckles, Policy Advisor AML, Isle of Man Government, UK


Session 3: What are the wider costs of economic crime and how best might we recognise and mitigate them?

  • Chair: Mr Patrick Moulette, Head, Anti-corruption Division, Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs, OECD, France

  • 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

  • Dr John Freeman, former Governor, Turks and Caicos, formerly UK Ambassador to Argentina, Permanent Representative to the UN (Vienna) and Deputy Director General, Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, UK

  • Mr Yehuda Shaffer, former Deputy State Attorney (Financial Crime), Israel

  • Mr David Fitzpatrick, Barrister, England and Wales and Hong Kong and former Senior Crown Counsel, Hong Kong SAR, People’s Republic of China

  • Dr Dmitry Gololobov, Senior Partner, Gololobov & Co, London, UK 

  • Colonel Claudio Petrozziello, Guardia di Finanza and Customs, Tax, Excise, Anti Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism Financing Affairs Attaché, Embassy of Italy, London, UK

  • Ms Alexandra Wrage, Founder and President, TRACE, USA

  • Dr Emmanuel Sotande, Assistant Director, Nigerian Intelligence Unit, Nigeria

  • Dr Dominic Thomas James, Researcher, Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge; Global Justice Fellow, Yale University, USA; Consultant, ICC FraudNet and Barrister, Goldsmith Chambers, London, UK

  • Dr Mark Turkington, Global Head of Transaction Monitoring Controls, HSBC Financial Crime Threat Mitigation, Investigations and former Global Head of AML Investigations HSBC London, Senior Manager Australian AML Bribery and Sanctions Compliance, National Australia Bank, Australia

Dr Domitilla Vanni di San Vincenzo, Senior Lecturer in Comparative Law, University of Palermo, Italy

Dr Anastasia Suhartati, Lecturer, Criminal Law Department, Faculty of Law, University of Surabaya, Indonesia

Mr Sebastian Sal, Partner, Sal and Morchio, Argentina

Mr Magnus Arvidson, Head, Special Enforcement Unit, Swedish Enforcement Authority, Sweden


Plenary workshop 3: Environmental crime: prevention, compliance and enforcement – making the polluters pay

  • Chair: The Hon Ms Bonnie Lano Rippingille, former Judge, Miami-Dade County, member of the Florida Bar, USA

  • Ms Stacey Geis, Managing Attorney, Earthjustice and Adjunct Professor, Hastings College of Law, University of California, USA

  • Mr Davyth Stewart, former Coordinator, Environmental Security Programme, International Criminal Police Organisation (ICPO), Interpol, France

  • Professor Tanya Wyatt, Professor in Criminology, Northumbria University, UK

  • Ms Michelle Chan, Vice President of Programs, Friends of the Earth, USA

  • Dr Rachel Silverstein, Executive Director and Waterkeeper, Miami Waterkeeper, USA

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