Professor Mike Levi has an international reputation for excellence in researching economic crime which includes money laundering, corruption, cybercrimes, fraud, transnational organised crime and white-collar crimes. This is reflected in recent major lifetime achievement awards from the British, American and European Societies of Criminology, the Al Thani Rule of Law Committee/UNODC Corruption Research and Education prize and the Tackling Economic Crime Awards.

He has served in a range of advisory roles both internationally (with the European Commission and Parliament, Europol, Council of Europe, UN and World Economic Forum) and nationally (with the UK Home Office and Cabinet Office, and with the Crime Statistics Advisory Committee). He has been a prolific publisher and contributor to debates on how best to tackle frauds and related offences. He has received a range of major lifetime achievement awards including from the Tackling Economic Crime Awards.

In this interview Mike discusses the influence of his first book, The Phantom Capitalists, why the response to money laundering has been misplaced, how efforts to reclaim proceeds from criminals have under achieved, and why so many fraud cases have failed and where we look for remedies.

As with all our guests Mike addresses these questions:
1. Which person has most influenced him?
2. What book has most informed him?
3. What single change does he think could best advance the cause of financial crime prevention?

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Annette Kimitei has over 20 years’ experience in the leadership of private security in East Africa and specifically Kenya.

She is currently Managing Director of one of the major security suppliers and has been active in security associations including Kenya Private Sector Alliance (KEPSA) and Women in Safety Excellence (WISE) where she has led the case for improved conditions, higher standards and greater diversity (amongst other things) in the security sector. Annette is a multi-award winner including as an individual, an OSPA for ‘Outstanding Security Director’, and for her company, ‘Outstanding Contract Security Company’.

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Mike Croll’s early career included working as an Army Bomb Disposal Officer and a Counter Terrorist Search Advisor. Later he was Head of Overseas Security at the FCO, and then held a similar appointment with the EU providing security for European diplomats, before becoming Director of Operations at the UN Department of Safety and Security. After several years in commercial and NGO security, he is now a Senior Lecturer in Security, Risk and Resilience.

Paul Harvey is an Executive Board Director and shareholder at Ward. He is actively involved in initiatives to counter terrorism and to advancing security as a profession. These include: Chartered Security Professional (CSyP), International Executive (and former UK Chair) of the TINYg international counterterrorism network, Fellow of the Institute of Strategic Risk Management (F.ISRM), member of the Executive Leadership Group at The City Security Council (CSC) and a Member of the Security Institute. Paul is a recipient of the ‘Lifetime Achievement’ award at the Security & Safety Entrepreneur (SSEA) Awards.

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