Dr Rohan Clarke is a former Jamaican diplomat and was called to the Bar of England and Wales at the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn. He is also an international consultant on illicit finance, Fellow at Yale University’s Global Justice Program and at the Society of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London, and a member of the organising Secretariat of the Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime. He received his Ph.D. from Jesus College, University of Cambridge, as a Commonwealth (Cambridge) Scholar. He authored “Illicit Finance and the Law in the Commonwealth Caribbean: The Myth of Paradise” and has published in leading peer-reviewed journals on illicit finance.

He sat on the National Anti-Money Laundering Committee (NAMLAC) in Jamaica. He holds a Bachelor of Science in International Relations and Political Science (1st Class Hons.) from the University of the West Indies; a Bachelor of Laws (Hons.) from Nottingham Law School in the UK; and a Master of International Law and Politics.