Mike Levi - Thought Leadership Interview

Security Thought Leadership: in conversation with Martin Gill

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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