Speakers

Nik Wood is co-presenter of BBC 2’s ‘Working Lunch’ – one of television’s most popular business programmes. During his career in journalism, he has reported from every corner of the world, including continental Europe, the Far East, the United States and South America on everything from the financial services to terrorism. He joined ‘Working Lunch’ early in 2007 after six years in the City of London working as a marketing director with two multi-national organisations in the fields of corporate law and international property. After starting his career in journalism he moved to local radio and regional television where he was appointed as one of the first of a new generation of specialist business correspondents. The growth of business coverage by the BBC took him to network programmes in London where he joined the former ‘Business Breakfast’ programme on BBC 1 before being appointed as a correspondent with ‘Working Lunch’. His career move into the corporate sector gave him a unique perspective on commercial issues, which he finds valuable when dealing with figures from business and industry now that he has returned to business journalism. As co-presenter of ‘Working Lunch’ he covers a variety of business issues on the programme, which is broadcast, live each weekday. It features personal finance, consumer and stock market issues and has won numerous awards for its blend of serious journalism and user-friendly explanations of the stories behind the business headlines.

Dr Jackie Harvey's principal area of research is in the field of money laundering and in particular the costs and benefits of regulatory compliance. Dr Harvey has been invited to speak at a number of high profile academic and practitioner conferences around the world. She is on the editorial board of the European Cross-Border Crime Colloquium and has been for the past couple of years a speaker at the Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime. Dr Harvey has had two papers published in the Journal of Money Laundering Control and has contributed two book chapters (one forthcoming), with further papers due out in the Security Journal and in the Journal of Crime Law and Social Change. Prior to becoming an academic in 2001, Dr Harvey - whose PhD is in taxation policy - spent 10 years working for a major merchant bank, followed by a three year posting as fiscal policy adviser to the Ministry of Finance in Belize, under the auspices of the UK Government.

John Ellis is a designated Technical Specialist (Financial Crime), working in the Financial Crime & Intelligence Division (FCID) of the Financial Services Authority. Until recently he was a team leader in the newly formed Financial Crime Operations Team, where he led a major project reviewing regulated firms' implementation of a risk-based approach to anti-money laundering. (The findings of the review were published by the FSA on 14th March 2008). John has considerable experience of undertaking so-called "thematic" work on financial crime topics, having co-authored published reports on firms' high-level management of fraud risk and on money laundering in private banking. He has also written internal reports on money laundering risk in hedge fund management; money laundering risk in traded endowment policies; and on automated AML transaction monitoring. Prior to his transfer to FCID in January 2007 John worked as a Money Laundering Policy Adviser, first at the Bank of England and then at the FSA, and subsequently as a Senior Risk Consultant in the FSA's Risk Review Department. He was a member of the UK delegation to the international Financial Action Task Force for 11 years and has partcipated in numerous mutual evaluation assignments, for both the FATF and the Council of Europe ("Moneyval").

Sue Rossiter was seconded to the Gambling Commission in January 2005 and leads the team developing policy in relation to betting, premises licensing, liaison with developed administrations, money laundering and non-commercial gambling. Her achievements to date include developing and publishing the Commission's Guidance to Licensing Authorities and its Guidance on the Money Laundering Regulations, as well as completing a review of the issues relating to sports betting integrity. Prior to joining the Commission Sue worked for two government regulators of privatised industries, was employed for many years in local government, and spent 18 months as a VSO volunteer working with refugees in Macedonia.

Frank Tucker has worked as the Policy Manager responsible for MLR supervision by HMRC since 2001, when money service businesses were first required to register. Since then he has been involved in the expansion of the HMRC register to include high value dealers in 2004, and he is now heavily involved in raising awareness among trust and company service providers, tax advisers and external accountants who are not subject to supervision by the FSA or their professional bodies of their obligations under the 2007 money laundering regulations.

Mike Calvert is the Head of Forensic Investigation at the Solicitors Regulation Authority and has worked within Regulation for 35 years. He is responsible for a team of 72 from a variety of backgrounds who target those legal firms and individuals who constitute the highest risk to clients and the public.

Jim Gillan is Director of UK Compliance for the London branch of the German bank, WestLB AG. As an investment bank operating in the wholesale market, WestLB London facilitates clients' access to structured finance and lending, and the full range of capital markets products. WestLB London has particular expertise in a number of specialised and challenging areas, notably across emerging markets, Islamic finance, and the shipping and energy sectors. Jim's responsibilities at WestLB include management of the bank's suspicious activity reporting regime, oversight of account opening policy, including due diligence and risk assessment, and overall compliance responsibility for the bank's UK mortgage subsidiary. Jim has been awarded both the Diploma in Anti-Money Laundering and the Diploma in Financial Crime Prevention by the International Compliance Association (ICA). He is a member of the Council of Mortgage Lenders' Financial Crime Panel and a Fellow of the ICA.

Bill Jones is the Managing Partner of JMW Solicitors in Manchester. He founded the firm in 1977 and became Managing Partner in 1998. He has been responsible for setting up quality systems throughout the firm and has spearheaded the firm's successful applications for Lexcel, Investors in People and various LSC franchises. He is in charge of all in-house and external training and has produced numerous seminars concentrating on quality standards and administrative procedures. He has lectured to solicitors throughout the country on financial services, and has also participated in Chamber of Commerce seminars covering the topi of Lexcel accreditation. Bill also heads the specialist Money Laundering Unit of JMW Solicitors. This unit handles major white collar money laundering-related cases throughout the country. He has been appointed to the Law Society's recently set up panel of specialist anti-money laundering solicitors, formed to help and guide practitioners on money laundering issues. Over the past four years Bill has been running AML compliance seminars for law firms in the UK.

John Butler served with the Metropolitan Police for 30 years, ending up on the Serious and Organised Crime Branch as a Detective Chief Inspector. He joined the Rank Group in 1994 as Head of Security for their Casino Division, and then progressed to Director of Security for the Leisure Division, which included night clubs, pubs, leisure centres, Odeon cinemas and Mecca Bingo. The Group’s sales and restructures now leave him with responsibility for 123 bingo sites in the UK and Spain, and 35 casinos in the UK and Belgium. He has been the company’s MLRO since 1995.

Phil Butler is Detective Chief Inspector and Head of Northumbria Police’s Economic Crime Unit. He is a member of the UN Expert Group on Fraud, and in 2003 founded the North East Fraud Forum, chairing the Steering Group. The NEFF is an anti-fraud initiative supported by the Home Office, Attorney General and international bodies such as the EU and the US Treasury Department. The aim of the project is to bring the private and public sectors closer together to reduce and prevent fraud and financial crime. Phil is a visiting lecturer and sits on the Academic Standards Committee for a number of universities in the North East of England, specialising in such areas as fraud, organised crime, money laundering and cybercrime. He has provided many presentations to agencies throughout the world, including the Institute of Banking Law and Practice, Washington DC; the United Nations International Trade and Law Commission, Vienna; and the European Commission in Brussels. He is, in addition, an expert adviser for the EU, and in 2006 he was a member of an EU expert group who assisted the Ministry of the Interior in Warsaw in the Polish Government’s anti-corruption strategy, providing advice on tackling bribery and corruption.

Peter McCloy has over 29 years’ police experience, including over 23 years in criminal investigation. He has served on several specialised squads, including drug trafficking and serious and organised crime, while serving as a Detective Sergeant on the Northumbria Police Crime Squad. He joined the Financial Investigation Unit in 1999, and with the formation of the Economic Crime Unit he now leads a team of detectives dedicated to the investigation of money laundering. He has given presentations on the subject to many financial institutions and also to the North East Fraud Forum and the Institute of Chartered Accountants at Skinners’ Hall, London.

Martin Baldwin is a serving Detective Sergeant with over 22 years' police service. He has spent the past 12 years of his service involved in the field of economic crime investigation. This has included positions within the Greater Manchester Police's commercial fraud, financial investigation and money laundering units, as well as secondment to the National Criminal Intelligence Services (NCIS). Martin is currently deployed within the force's police crime training unit, where he is involved in providing national fraud and public sector corruption training, together with financial investigation training on behalf of the Assets Recovery Agency (ARA). He has also provided presentations on the subject of financial investigation to various other organisations within the regulated sector.

Robert Warburton is a serving Detective Constable with over 21 years' police service. He has spent the past 11 years of his service involved in the field of financial investigation. This has included positions within the Greater Manchester Police's commercial fraud and financial investigation units. Robert is currently deployed in the force's money laundering unit, and he has held this position since the unit's creation in January 2004 as a direct result of the inception of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002. Robert has also been involved in providing national financial investigation training on behalf of the Assets Recovery Agency (ARA).

Paul Langan is a Detective Chief Inspector and Head of the West Yorkshire Police Economic Crime Unit, with responsibility for fraud and proceeds of crime investigations. With 29 years' police service - including DCI Crime Manager at a busy city police division and two separate postings on the Major Crime Unit - he is experienced in a wide range of crime investigations. Having responsibility for the SARs intelligence unit, which receives on average 140 reports a week, he is ideally placed to identify how the SARs reporting process benefits law enforcement agencies. He has delivered money laundering presentations to the Law Society in London and Manchester. He is currently involved with significant investigations into buy-to-let mortgage fraud and internal compromise within banks and building societies.

Shane Roberts is currently a Detective Inspector with Bedfordshire Police and Head of Economic Crime for the Constabulary. His specialist investigation area is POCA, and one of his current responsibilities is the strategic co-ordination and operational delivery of POCA performance across all business areas of the Force. He has been involved in money laundering and asset recovery investigations for five years, proactively instigating organised crime and terrorist financing groups at local, regional, national and international level. He was recently awarded a Crown Court Judge's commendation for his leadership and investigative ability on Operation Navigate, the case about which he will speak at the conference. His special interest areas are offender profiling and money laundering typologies, and he has recently been engaged in a consultative capacity to provide advice to the Office of Fair Trading, to establish the proposals for the regulation of estate agents as part of the 3rd EU Directive. Shane has trained lawyers, executive officers and practitioners in a host of Government agencies in using the provisions of POCA for law enforcement, and has provided AML awareness training to individuals and businesses within the public and private sectors. He sits on the "end users' group" as part of the SARs Transformation Project, and is currently pioneering a number of initiatives to enhance knowledge sharing and partnership between the regulated sector and law enforcement in identifying and working towards the subsequent prevention of emerging money laundering typologies.

Brian Dilley has over 10 years' financial crime experience, the least eight of which have been in financial services. He spent over three years at UBS Investment Bank, where he was a Managing Director and Global Head of AML Compliance. Prior to that he spent more than four years at the FSA, where he was Head of Department in the FSA's Enforcement Division during the development of the FSA's financial crime strategy. Brian also has signficant experience of major forensic investigations, including leading the investigation into the handling of funds from General Abacha of Nigeria by numerous UK banks, and managing the first AML disciplinary cases in the UK when the FSA was given its objective to reduce financial crime. Brian played key roles in the Volcker Commission's search for assets in Switzerland of the victims of Nazi persecution and managed the discovery, asset tracing and trial stages of the Grupo Torras fraud investigation, resulting in judgements of several billion dollars. Brian has been a key member of several committees and working groups, including the Serious Organised Crime Agency Vetted Committee (current) and the Wolfsberg Group's Investment Banking Working Group.

Matthew Cooper is Deputy Head of the UBS AG Group Anti-Money Laundering Unit, based in London, and has been a Money Laundering Reporting Officer since 1995. He joined UBS in 2005 from Barclays, where he had been Global Director of AML for three years, and is currently working on a project with the Wealth Management AML team in London, having spent six months last year heading the Investment Bank AML team in New York. Prior to joining the private sector Matthew worked in Government service in a variety of operational and policy roles relating to fraud and security. He is part of the Wolfsberg Group, led the work to revise its set of "Frequently Asked Questions" relating to PEPs, and is currently working on revisions to its statement on screening, searching and monitoring.

Mark Spragg is Head of the White Collar Fraud Department at the law firm Jeffrey Green Russell, having been a partner of the firm since 1989. He leads a team dealing in all aspects of fraud defence work, including tax and regulatory investigations. His notable cases include Blue Arrow – a failed rights issue and two DTI investigations, all involving NatWest Bank; Police Act – the conduct of disciplinary proceedings brought against the Chief Constable of Derbyshire; Taylor v. SFO – case ending in the House of Lords and ECHR concerning collateral use of documents disclosed in criminal proceedings; Dame Shirley Porter – defence of enforcement proceedings against the former Leader of Westminster City Council; and the NatWest Three – extradition case to the USA.

Jamie Williamson is Head of the SAR Control and Consent Team at the UK Financial Intelligence Unit. Jamie seeks to continue developing the relationship that has been built up between the reporting sector and UK law enforcement agencies, in addition to developing the means for capturing financial intelligence to provide opportunities for SOCA and other law enforcement agencies. He began his policing career in 1975, on joining the Toronto Police in Canada. In 1978 he transferred to Thames Valley Police, and between 1989 and 1992 was seconded to the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) in Hong Kong. In 1998 he was seconded to the International Division of the National Criminal Intelligence Service, and in 2002 he was promoted to Detective Superintendent and Head of Operations for the UK Interpol Bureau.

David Toddington has operated Toddington International Inc (formerly DM Toddington and Company Ltd) for the past 11 years. He is a former Vice President and General Manager of a national Canadian Internet Service Provider with a solid background in policing. Founded in 1997, Toddington International Inc. has established an international reputation as a leader in the provision of Strategic and Tactical Internet-based Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) support and training services to police, regulatory and other law enforcement related agencies primarily in Canada and the United Kingdom. David regularly lectures on Internet investigative matters to various police and related agencies in Canada, the United States, Mexico, Asia, Europe and the Middle East, and has developed a number of training programs focused on Internet Technologies as they relate to intelligence gathering activities and ongoing online investigations. He also instructs on an ongoing basis at the RCMP Pacific Region Training Centre, the West Yorkshire Police Training and Development Centre (United Kingdom), the Justice Institute of British Columbia, the Forensic Sciences Department at the British Columbia Institute of Technology and Centro Internacional de Inteligencia in Mexico. In working with the Private Sector, David maintains a position as Special Advisor to the International Chamber of Commerce Commercial Crime Section in London, England. Since 1989 David has held numerous peace officer appointments including RCMP Supernumerary Constable, Designated Law Enforcement Officer (DLEO) with the Organized Crime Agency of British Columbia, RCMP Auxiliary Constable within the Province of British Columbia and Technical Reserve with the City of Moscow Police in Idaho State.

Misha Glenny is a distinguished journalist and historian. As the Central Europe Correspondent first for the Guardian and then for the BBC, he chronicled the collapse of communism and the wars in the former Yugoslavia. He has won several major awards, including the Sony Gold Award for his outstanding contribution to broadcasting. The author of three books on Eastern Europe and the Balkans, he has regularly been consulted by the US and European governments on major policy issues and ran an NGO for three years, assisting with the reconstruction of Serbia, Macedonia and Kosovo. He now lives in London.