JOBNAME: Rider PAGE: 9 SESS: 7 OUTPUT: Wed Oct 14 15:09:05 2015 Contributors Professor Irina Abramova, BA (Hons) (Moscow State University); MA, PhD (Insti- tute for African Studies). Irina is Deputy Director of the Institute for African Studies (IAS), Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. She is also Full Professor, Depart- ment of Global Problems and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow and a Visiting Lecturer at the Universities of Tuebingen, Bochum, Heidelberg (Germany) and University of St. Gallen (Switzerland). In 2004–2005 she participated in a number of training activities and international conferences organised by the Council of Europe in the capacity of an international expert on combating money laundering and terrorist financing. Irina is the author of more than 110 research works published in Russia and abroad, including eight major monographs. Dr Richard Alexander, MA (Cantab); PhD (Lond); Barrister (England and Wales). Richard is Lecturer in Financial Law at SOAS, University of London. He has also been a Visiting Expert for the Inter-Governmental Action Group Against Money Laundering in West Africa (GIABA) and regularly lectures at institutions in several jurisdictions including Italy, Poland and China. Before joining SOAS, he was a Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London and has also been a Visiting Scholar at the University of Florida. He has written a book and a number of articles primarily on the control of abuse of the financial markets, corruption and money laundering. Dr Shazeeda A. Ali, LLB (Hons) (UWI); LLM (Cantab); PhD (Lond); Attorney-at- Law. Shazeeda was appointed a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, in 2012. She is currently a Deputy Dean in that faculty and is also a Course Director in legal professional ethics at the Norman Manley Law School. Shazeeda previously served as a technical advisor in the Attorney General’s Chambers of Jamaica where she was involved in the process leading up to the enactment of the Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA). She has presented and published a number of papers, both locally and internationally, on financial services regulation, financial crime and legal ethics. Professor Anona Armstrong, BA (Hons), PhD (Melb); FIPAA (Vic); FAPS, FAES, FAICD, AM. Anona is Professor of Governance and Director of Research and Research Training in the Faculty of Law and Justice, Victoria University, Melbourne. She was elected a Life Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge University in 2005 and was invested with the Member of the Order of Australia in 2008. In her current position she supervises a number of PhD students and chairs a Victorian Government’s Health Advisory Committee. Anona has written and published a number of books and articles in the area of corporate misconduct and related issues of governance and ethics, particularly in relation to the public sector. ix Barry Rider - 9781783475797 Downloaded from Elgar Online at 10/02/2021 12:47:58AM via free access Columns Design XML Ltd / Job: Rider-Research_Handbook_International_Financial_Crime / Division: 00a-RiderPrelims /Pg. Position: 1 / Date: 9/10 JOBNAME: Rider PAGE: 10 SESS: 7 OUTPUT: Wed Oct 14 15:09:05 2015 x Research handbook on international financial crime Ms Laura Atherton, MA (Cantab); Solicitor-Advocate (England and Wales). Laura is a Senior Associate in the London office of K&L Gates LLP. She began her career as a criminal and common law barrister at the London Bar before moving to become a solicitor-advocate. Laura’s practice is a mix of regulatory, criminal work, investigations and commercial disputes. Dr Graeme Baber, MA (Oxon); LLB (Hons), LLM (Lond), BSc, MSc (Oxon); PhD (Lond); MBA (Heriot-Watt); MSc (Herts); PGCPE (BPP); FHEA, MCT, ACSI, ALCM. Graeme is an LLM Senior Lecturer at BPP University Law School, specialising in international and financial law. He publishes regularly and extensively on the law of financial services regulation. Graeme has written a number of books and articles on financial law and is an accomplished pianist in respect of music of the baroque and classical periods. Mr Alan Bacarese, LLB (Hons) (Leeds); Barrister (England and Wales). Alan is a Director of Stream House, an international anti-corruption consultancy, where he leads on anti-corruption and asset recovery matters. He is a UK barrister and was a Senior Crown Prosecutor with the UK’s Crown Prosecution Service until 2007 before helping to establish the International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) in Basel, Switzerland. In 2014, Alan worked as an EU-funded legal advisor to the government of Montenegro on EU accession and rule of law reform. Alan currently works in many jurisdictions on both rule of law policy and legal case work. Professor Fletcher N. Baldwin, JD, LLM (Yale); LLM (Illinois); JD Hon (Georgia). Fletcher is the Chesterfield Smith Professor of Law Emeritus and Director, Centre for International Financial Crimes Studies, University of Florida, Visiting Professor at Montpellier University and Honorary Fellow, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London. He taught at Makerere University, Uganda as a Fulbright Fellow and at Baylor University, UNLV. He was Visiting Professor at both the University of Natal Pieremaritzburg and Stellenbosch University, South Africa, CEELI Legal Advisor to the Constitutional Court Ukraine and a consultant to the Attorney General, Indonesia. He was Special Advisor for the Philippine Money Laundering Council and Advisor-Lecturer for the Afghanistan Rule of Law Project in Kabul in 2008. He has written books and articles, including the five volume treatise entitled Money Launder- ing Asset Forfeiture and International Financial Crimes (1993–2008, Oxford Univer- sity Press), and co-authored the three volume treatise entitled Cybercrime and Security. Professor Stuart Bazley, LLB (Hons), LLM, PhD (Lond). Stuart is a Visiting Professor in Financial Regulation and Compliance Law at BPP University Law School. Stuart has over 30 years’ experience working in the financial services industry and is a former employed Barrister having held senior roles as In-House Lawyer, General Counsel and Head of Compliance. Stuart now works as an expert regulatory consultant, with a wide range of medium-sized enterprises and large complex transnational financial services firms in the securities, wealth management and banking sectors, advising on and investigating market and sales practice compliance, regulatory mis- conduct and enforcement matters. Stuart has published a number of books and many Barry Rider - 9781783475797 Downloaded from Elgar Online at 10/02/2021 12:47:58AM via free access Columns Design XML Ltd / Job: Rider-Research_Handbook_International_Financial_Crime / Division: 00a-RiderPrelims /Pg. Position: 2 / Date: 9/10 JOBNAME: Rider PAGE: 11 SESS: 7 OUTPUT: Wed Oct 14 15:09:05 2015 Contributors xi articles on regulatory and legal issues, particularly relating to market abuse and compliance. Professor Caroline Bradley, MA, LLM (Cantab). Caroline is a Professor of Law at the University of Miami School of Law in Coral Gables, Florida. Before moving to the University of Miami she taught in the Law Department at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is a Section Editor of the corporate law section of Jotwell (http://corp.jotwell.com/). Her research has focused on financial regulation, changing relationships between geography and money, legal convergence, and on the disruptions technological change causes for financial markets. Mr Jeffrey Bryant, LLB (Birmingham); Barrister (England and Wales). Jeffrey is a barrister who started his career at the Chambers of Andrew Mitchell QC in 2001, where he subsequently took tenancy. Since 2007, Jeffrey has been an employed barrister in the Crown Prosecution Service for England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Jeffrey has brought restraint and confiscation proceedings on behalf of numerous foreign govern- ments. He was the reviewing lawyer in the leading Supreme Court case of R v Waya [2013] 1 AC 294. Jeffrey is a contributor to Mitchell, Taylor and Talbot on Confiscation and the Proceeds of Crime and is also a Visiting Lecturer at BPP University. Professor Andrew Campbell, LLB, MPhil (Wales); Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales; Chartered Banker. Andrew is Professor of International Banking and Finance Law at the School of Law at the University of Leeds. He is particularly interested in bank insolvency, protecting depositors and financial crime, in which areas he has published a number of books and articles. Miss Elise Campbell, LLB (BCU); MA (Leeds). Elise is undertaking research into aspects of human rights law and financial crime, having recently completed an MA by Research with Distinction at the University of Leeds School of Law. Mr Stefan D. Cassella, JD (Georgetown); BS (Cornell); AUSA (District of Maryland); CEO of Asset Forfeiture Law, LLC. Stefan was a US federal prosecutor specialising in asset forfeiture and money laundering law for 30 years, and served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney and as a Deputy Chief of the Justice Department’s Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section during that time. He handled some of the largest forfeiture cases ever brought by the US, and was the principal author of much of the federal legislation dealing with the proceeds of crime and the applicable sections of the Federal Rules of Civil and Criminal Procedure. He has published over 30 law review articles on asset forfeiture and money laundering, as well as a treatise entitled Asset Forfeiture Law in the United States. Stefan is presently the CEO of Asset Forfeiture Law, LLC, a consulting firm advising law enforcement agencies and others in the application of the federal forfeiture and money laundering laws. He also teaches asset forfeiture procedure at the Federal National Advocacy Center at the University of South Carolina, serves as an expert witness on US law in foreign cases, and has trained prosecutors in numerous other countries, including South Africa, Tanzania, Australia and Bosnia.