I am an Associate Professor of Law at the Australian National University (ANU) and an expert in financial crime law and economic sanctions, based in Canberra, Australia.
I specialise in anti-money laundering (AML), counter-terrorist financing (CTF), counter-proliferation financing (CPF), foreign bribery laws, and financial and trade sanctions. I advise governments, international organisations and private-sector institutions on financial crime governance, risk and compliance.
My work combines academic expertise with advisory experience. Over the past decade I have advised organisations including the World Bank, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Basel Institute on Governance, Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) and private-sector clients across multiple jurisdictions.
I have particular expertise in anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CTF), sanctions, beneficial ownership transparency, corruption, asset recovery and financial crime governance. My research asks whether financial crime rules achieve their objectives, and how government policymaking and private-sector compliance can advance their effectiveness.
I am the author of Doing Business with Criminals (Cambridge University Press, 2025), Corruption and Targeted Sanctions (Brill, 2019) and other publications on financial crime and sanctions. Doing Business with Criminals has been acclaimed by reviewers as an ‘indispensable guide’ to the global AML system, a ‘classic for years to come’ and an ‘outstanding piece of scholarship’.
I am also an Associate Fellow at the Centre for Finance and Security at RUSI; Senior Advisor at Transparency International Australia; Senior Research Affiliate at Singapore Management University; and Visiting Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore.
My work has informed legislative reform and policy internationally. I have testified before parliaments and government inquiries in Australia, Canada, Europe and the UK.
You can read about my advisory and academic work on this website.
If you would like to get in touch, you can email me.
My other, non-financial crime-related project is the daily law game called Hard Cases (hardcases.app).
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