Date: Wednesday, 28 August 2025
Time: 2:00 PM BST
Location: Zoom (link provided upon registration)

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Join us for the official launch of Global Anti-Money Laundering Regulation: Developing Countries’ Compliance Challenges, an edited collection exploring how developing jurisdictions are responding to the complex demands of global anti-money laundering (AML) regimes. With contributions from leading scholars and practitioners, the book addresses key implementation challenges, gaps in policy and enforcement, and the broader implications of compliance in resource-constrained settings.

The event will feature guest remarks from renowned academics and professionals in the fields of law, governance, and anti-corruption:

Professor Tony Ward
Legal scholar with specialisations in the law of evidence, expert testimony, and state crime. He is Co-Director of the International State Crime Initiative and Editor-in-Chief of State Crime journal. His work includes State Crime: Governments, Violence and Corruption and State Crime and Civil Activism (co-authored with Penny Green).

Dr Peter Sproat
Research Fellow at a leading investigative think tank, with previous academic roles including Senior Lecturer in Financial Crime at Northumbria University. He has published widely on AML, asset recovery, and organised crime.

Jean-Pierre Brun
Senior Financial Sector Specialist at the World Bank, with extensive experience in AML/CFT policy, asset recovery, and grand corruption cases. A former French prosecutor and author of the Asset Recovery Handbook, he contributes to the Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative (StAR).

Professor John Hatchard
Barrister and Emeritus Professor of Law at the University of Buckingham. He is a Visiting Professor at the UN’s International Anti-Corruption Academy and former Chief Mutual Legal Assistance Officer at the Commonwealth Secretariat. Author of several books, including Combating Money Laundering in Africa and Proving Corruption and Defending the Corrupt.

Dr Simeon A. Igbinedion
Associate Professor at the University of Lagos with expertise in international law, financial crime, and asset recovery. He has consulted for Nigeria’s Independent Corrupt Practices Commission and co-edited a volume on corruption and cross-border crime.

Chinelo Bob-Osamor
PhD candidate at the Law School, Cardiff University, researching issues related to AML, governance, and developing economies.

This book launch is intended for academics, legal professionals, policymakers, researchers, and anyone interested in the regulation of economic crime across the global south.

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