
I research and advise on how governments design and implement sanctions and financial crime controls, and how private-sector institutions comply with them. My work draws on more than 12 years of international experience in anti-money laundering (AML), counter-terrorist financing (CTF), counter-proliferation financing (CPF), foreign bribery laws, and financial and trade sanctions.
I am an Associate Professor of Law at the Australian National University. I am also an Associate Fellow at the Centre for Finance and Security at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) in the UK; Advisor to Transparency International Australia; and Senior Research Affiliate at the Centre for Digital Law at Singapore Management University, among other appointments.
In addition to my academic work, I regularly advise international organisations, including the UN Office on Drugs and Crime and the World Bank, as well as government agencies and private-sector clients worldwide.
You can read about my advisory and academic work on this website. You can order my latest book, Doing Business with Criminals, with a 20% discount using the code DBC2025 via Cambridge University Press.
If you would like to get in touch, you can email me.





