Nik Adams
Nik Adams was appointed as Deputy Commissioner to oversee the City of London Police’s Economic and Cyber Crime Directorates in December 2024, having transferred to the City of London Police in March 2022 as Commander for Economic and Cyber Crime.
As Deputy Commissioner, Nik is focussed on national delivery, which includes Action Fraud and the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau. He oversees the national Economic and Cyber Crime Academy and a diverse range of operational units within the City of London Police. These units tackle complex and specialist aspects of economic crime, and include partnership units specialising in intellectual property crime, insurance fraud and payment crime. He is additionally the NPCC lead for the Financial Investigation, and the NPCC lead for Elections.
The City of London Police is the lead force for Economic crime and the policing lead for Cyber Crime, delivering national services such as Action Fraud and the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau, which incorporates the Economic Crime Victim Care Unit.
Pammi Babbra
Pammi is a commercial litigation solicitor who has practised in the City of London for 20 years. She heads her firm’s multidisciplinary litigation department, which has a strong focus on commercial fraud and regulation. She has been involved with the work of the Fraud Fora for over 8 years and has actively contributed, together with the public and private sectors, to the fight against fraud and economic crime. Against this background, Pammi was keen to recreate in the eastern region a forum for members of all sectors to share experiences, opinions, best practices, information, discussion and cooperation, and so spearheaded the re-establishment of the Eastern Fraud Forum.
Pammi has perused and defended a wide range of complex contract disputes, high-value breaches, liabilities in the supply chain and related Part 20 claims, origins of art, intellectual property, apportioning liability in cross-border matters, including transportation and distribution, import/export regulation and matters involving the Export Control Joint Unit, European and international conventions, Border Force and confiscation. She also works on domestic and cross-border arbitrations and has been involved in investigations of fallen hedge funds and advising on other regulatory matters, including the Phone-paid services authority and banking matters.
A number of these cases have involved allegations of breaches of fiduciary duties, misrepresentation, conspiracy, misconduct, deceit and misappropriation requiring injunctive relief, domestic and worldwide freezing injunctions, enforcement in tax efficient jurisdictions and committal proceedings.
Andy Beet
Andy is a highly accomplished law enforcement professional with over 42 years of experience spanning specialist roles of national and international importance. Throughout his distinguished career, he has demonstrated expertise across diverse operational environments, fostering trusted partnerships at executive levels with UK and international law enforcement agencies, commercial organisations, and the communications sector.
Beginning his career with the Metropolitan Police Service, Andy held several specialist posts, including leading the Telecommunications Intelligence Unit at New Scotland Yard. He was instrumental in operational support for major investigations, the rollout of RIPA compliance, and international capacity-building programmes. In 2007, following his retirement from active police service, Andy led the National Police Chiefs’ Council Futures Team, addressing emerging technological challenges and delivering intelligence insights across the policing landscape. He also co-created and managed the globally recognised International Communications Data and Digital Forensics Conference (ICDDF).
Recognised for his service to law enforcement, Andy was awarded the OBE in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours List in 2020.
In February 2024, Andy was appointed CEO of the Telecommunications UK Fraud Forum (TUFF), where he leads national initiatives to combat telecoms fraud and promote collaborative industry engagement.
Nicole Bossieux
Nicole is a passionate leader in the fight against fraud and financial crime, known for her commitment to innovation and her dedication to elevating women in the field. As Chief Revenue Officer at FinCrime Dynamics, Nicole spearheads commercial strategy while championing the use of cutting-edge AI and machine learning to help financial institutions better understand and combat economic crime.
FinCrime Dynamics has emerged as a pioneer in leveraging LLMs and advanced data science to provide detailed insights into fraud cases, help detect emerging trends and patterns, streamline the control testing process, enhance MI and reporting practices, and reduce operational inefficiencies and regulatory risk. FinCrime Dynamics empowers clients to confidently grow their businesses by exposing hidden vulnerabilities, reducing losses, and staying ahead of compliance requirements.
Nicole is also the founder of the F4C (Fellow Female Fighters of Financial Crime) a growing community of over 500 women across banking, fintech, and payments. Through the F4C, she has created a vibrant support network featuring monthly meetups, high-impact industry panels, and cross-sector partnerships. Her efforts have redefined what community leadership looks like in the financial crime space, bringing visibility and momentum to the contributions of women across the industry. A tireless advocate for change, Nicole believes the future of economic crime prevention is not just about better tech or tighter regulation, it’s about building a movement through educationg and community. Her work continues to spark meaningful conversations across the industry, promoting the idea that collective action and empowered individuals are the true engines of transformation.
Robert Brooker
Robert has over 20 years’ experience of tackling and preventing financial crime across the public, and private sectors, including considerable experience of Fraud Risk Management, as well as leading Investigation teams. Robert has worked within Local Authorities, Transport for London (TfL) and Advisory Firms.
He is currently Head of Forensics and Fraud at PKF Littlejohn LLP. Additionally, Robert is Chairman of the London Fraud Forum, a member only group, working to bring the Public and Private Sectors together, to prevent and detect Fraud, Bribery and Corruption.
Professor Mark Button
Professor Mark Button is founder and Director of the Centre for Counter Fraud Studies at the Institute of Criminal Justice Studies, University of Portsmouth. Mark has written extensively on counter fraud, cyber-fraud and private policing issues, publishing many articles, chapters and completing eight books. His latest book (co-authored with Dr Cassandra Cross ) is titled Cyber Frauds, Scams and their Victims has just been published by Routledge.
Some of the most significant research projects include leading the research on behalf of the National Fraud Authority and ACPO on fraud victims; the Department for International Development on fraud measurement, Acromas (AA and Saga) on ‘Cash-for-Crash fraudsters’, the Midlands Fraud Forum, Eversheds and PKF on ‘Sanctioning Fraudsters’, and the Government’s Annual Cyber Breaches Survey. Mark is also working with Dr Victoria Wang on a major EPSRC funded project on open data and on the Government’s annual Cyber-breaches survey with IPSOS-Mori.
Mark has also acted as a consultant for the United Nations Offices on Drugs and Crime on developing international standards for Civilian Private Security Services and the United Nations Development Programme/European Union on enhancing civilian oversight of the Turkish private security industry. Mark completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Exeter, his Masters at the University of Warwick and his Doctorate at the London School of Economics.
Elisabeth Carter
Dr Elisabeth Carter is a criminologist and forensic linguist who conducts interdisciplinary research at the intersection of language and the law. She examines how interactional, ethical and social drivers are manipulated by fraudsters, and the intricate balancing act between power and persuasion, credibility and vulnerability.
Elisabeth writes sector-defining academic and public facing research papers, cross-sector briefings and books, and regularly features in TV and radio series, podcasts and print media around the world, on fraud, deception, grooming and compliance.
She uses her research to support law enforcement campaigns, drive police operations, deliver training in practical strategies to disrupt the power of fraudulent communications across the public, private and third sector, and safeguard people in positions of vulnerability.
She is the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime expert consultant for Effective Communication Practices for Fraud Prevention and an Associate Professor of Criminology. She won the Tackling Economic Crime Award for Outstanding Tackling Economic Crime Professional 2022, and Outstanding Female Economic Crime Professional in 2023 and 2024.
Rebecca Chapman
I am a retired Superintendent from South Yorkshire Police with over 30 yrs experience in patrol, criminal investigation/justice, intelligence, covert policing, tactical command of firearms, critical incidents and CBRN with extensive experience of leading projects and change management. I am currently the CEO at a not for profit company called the North East Business Resilience Centre reporting into the National Cyber network. I created this centre from start up to where it is now with a stable cash flow and 3345 members in less than 5 years.
As CEO/Director of the North East Business Resilience Centre (NEBRC) I am seeking to establish connections between law enforcement, academia and business in order to provide cyber crime and online fraud prevention advice to small and medium enterprises. Passionate about public service, collaboration, innovation and business development I want the NEBRC to be the leading place to get crime prevention advice for SME’s in the NE, Yorkshire and The Humber.
As a Trustee at Bluebell Wood Children’s Hospice I am part of the Board providing strategic oversight of a wonderful charity who provides daycare, therapy, outreach care and residential care to children and young adults with life limiting conditions.
The NEBRC took over the NE Fraud Forum 2 years ago and combines cyber and fraud awareness to all its members.
Mark Cheeseman OBE
Mark heads up the Public Sector Fraud Authority, which works with UK government departments and public bodies to better understand and reduce the impact of fraud. Mark is a fraud and financial crime expert, specialising in fraud leadership, risk assessment and measurement.
He led the development of the Government’s Counter Fraud Function and the Government Counter Fraud Profession as well as the creation of organisational standards and the use of data sharing and analytics, transforming the way that central government deals with fraud - leading to an increase of detected and prevented fraud of over 250% and £100ms in audited benefits from counter fraud activity. He also helped set up the Australian government’s Commonwealth Fraud Prevention Centre and supported the New Zealand government in creating their Counter Fraud Centre. He led the creation of the International Public Sector Fraud Forum, a group of leading experts on fraud management who produce international guidance on leading practice.
Mark chairs and sits on a number of cross government boards and has led several reviews into fraud management. Prior to joining the Cabinet Office, Mark was Head of Counter Fraud and Investigations at the Legal Aid Agency, where he reformed agency’s approach to countering fraud, which led to the first prosecutions of members of the public for legal aid fraud, the first cross-agency prosecutions with other public bodies, a fundamental redesign of the fraud risk assessment model and refocusing the function to deliver a return on investment from the Counter Fraud Function that exceeded its cost. Mark was also part of the team that successfully took the Legal Aid Agency out of accounts qualification by the National Audit Office.
Andrew Churchill
Originally a Defence Analyst, Andrew first moved into the payments realm in 2001, leading HM Government’s Cybercrime Task Force, and subsequently co-ordinating work with industry on Banking and Payments security technology requirements, particularly in Identity, Authentication and broader Cyber Security. In over 20 years of experience as a consultant and researcher he has advised myriad Governments, Regulators, Standards bodies and every facet of industry.
He is the lead author of the British Standard in Digital Identification and Strong Customer Authentication (PAS499:2019). addressing PSD2 RTS SCA, UK member of ISO TC321 in E-Commerce Transaction Assurance, and has led industry and regulatory wargaming exercises against future threats and vulnerabilities within the payments industry, including for Open Banking. Currently he has a particular focus on the developing international legal approach to combatting economic crime, especially from the viewpoint of domestic legislative programme and its impact on the global outlook.
Internationally he has been subject matter expert on an EU Cybercrime research programme, a member of the US Federal Reserve’s Secure Payments Task Force, and an advisor to Governments on international Regulatory Alignment and standards in Secure & Trusted environments such as payments. In addition to his first degree he holds masters in Information Security (MSc, Royal Holloway), and Defence & Security Analysis (MA, Lancaster University).
David E Clark
With over forty years of corporate experience in finance and business controls including heading up an internal investigations team, since 2019 David has been the Chief Compliance and Business Ethics Officer for Saint-Gobain UK & Ireland. He leads on work to reinforce a compliance culture across all Saint-Gobain UK&I businesses, driving the corporate compliance program through strong Principles of Conduct and Action to ensure good corporate governance, regulatory compliance and business ethics. He is responsible for coordinating investigations to resolve issues reported through the confidential hotline systems, in accordance with the Whistleblowing Policy, as well as continuing to drive an effective counter fraud programme.
David has had a particular interest in fraud over the last 20 years progressing many cases through both criminal and civil courts and has been a Director of the Midlands Fraud Forum since 2009. After the Forum initiated a joint research project with the University of Portsmouth it created an interest which he then followed with a further five years of distance learning through the University’s Centre of Counter Fraud Studies. As a Certified Fraud Examiner he has a strong belief in “what gets measured gets done” he contends every fraud should be reported and is proud to be associated with those in the Fraud Forums, ACFE, International Society of Economic Criminology, Fraud Advisory Panel and others in the counter fraud community, committed to tackling fraud and economic crime.
Kara Conlon
Kara Conlon is the Senior Manager of Financial Crime and MLRO for Principality Building Society, as well as a Director for Wales Fraud Forum. Kara has over 20 years’ experience working within financial crime including detection, prevention, policy writing and assessing risk.
Her current remit spans across Fraud, AML, Anti-Bribery and Corruption, Facilitation of Tax Evasion and Modern Slavery.
Wales Fraud Forum is a not-for-profit company run by volunteer individuals from across both the public and private sectors. The aim of the Forum is to help prevent fraud by raising awareness through an annual conference and workshops throughout the year.
Frances Coulson
Frances Coulson is a deputy chair of the Fraud Advisory Panel – the UK charity which acts as the independent voice of the counter fraud community, committed to tackling fraud and financial crime.
Frances was until recently senior and managing partner at Moon Beever LLP which has recently merged with Wedlake Bell LLP a top 100 city law firm where she now heads the insolvency and restructuring department leading a substantial team of lawyers in contentious and non-contentious work.
Frances also chairs the R3 Fraud Group having been a former President. She is a Council member of INSOL Europe and a member of its Fraud Group and until recently was deputy chair of the Regulatory and Conduct Committee of the IPA. She was appointed this year as a none executive Director of the Insolvency Service. She is a special constable with the National Crime Agency appointed under the Crime and Courts Act 2013 and received a Director General’s Commendation in 2014.
Her work largely involves contentious insolvency, fraud and injunctive relief. She has acted in many injunctions for claimants and as a supervising solicitor for over 30 years. She is an enthusiastic lobbyist for the insolvency profession and for victims of fraud. Frances is an Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Credit Management and has given evidence several times to Parliamentary Committees on finance and lending, and insolvency.
Peter Darby
Peter began his career in countering fraud in 1972, working as an investigator in what is now the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). He went on to manage regional investigation and prosecution units working with various government agencies and police forces on several successful major investigations. At a strategic level he has developed policy and guidance for the DWP, HMPO and UK Visas & Immigration covering counter fraud and security, identity fraud investigation and fraud loss measurement
During the 1990’s he developed a keen interest in the training and development of counter fraud investigators. He was instrumental in turning the aspirations in the Government Green Paper, “Beating Fraud is Everyone’s Business – Securing the Future” into reality. He personally designed and developed the learning programme which has become the recognised benchmark for Accredited Counter Fraud Specialist (ACFS) investigation training across the wider fraud community.
Since 2000 Peter has managed Peter Darby Associates. He is an ACFS, a member of the Government Counter Fraud Profession Cross Sector Advisory Group, a member of the Counter Fraud Professional Awards Board (CFPAB) Executive Board and a Trustee of the CFPAB Charity.
Matthew Dibb
Matt is a Legal Director in the litigation team for Addleshaw Goddard, specialising in financial disputes. His practice is diverse, encompassing complex, thematic and strategic disputes for large financial institutions and corporates and wide ranging claims involving real property, professional negligence and trusts.
Matt is a specialist in fraud based litigation for financial services clients and a Board director of the Yorkshire and Humber Fraud Forum. He has also spent time working offshore and is familiar with Jersey trusts and legal landscape.
Matt has valuable in-house experience, having been seconded to two major retail banking clients, where he led complex portfolios of cases, managing both internal stakeholders and multi-jurisdictional matters.
Tirene Doepel
Tirene leads service development for the National Anti-Fraud Network (NAFN), which supports over 450 public sector bodies - including 98% of local authorities, 35 wider public authorities and more than 80 housing associations.
NAFN acts as a gateway and gatekeeper to vital data and intelligence, supporting a wide range of investigations. With a background in service transformation, project delivery and organisational change, Tirene brings a clear understanding of the complexities and constraints facing public sector teams, and the real-world challenges of tackling fraud and economic crime.
Alan Doig
Alan Doig is currently Honorary Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, and a Trustee of the Counter Fraud Professional Awards Board. He has published numerous academic articles and books on corruption, financial crime and public ethics and served as a Board Member for the UK Standards Board for England.
He has undertaken anti-corruption and public ethics work for the Council of Europe, the UK DFID, OECD, Transparency International, UNDP, UNODC and the World Bank. As well as leading a number of anticorruption development projects overseas, he spent over two years as the Council of Europe’s full-time Resident Advisor in Turkey and then the resident UNODC UNCAC mentor to Thailand.
He was one of a team that recently completed a public health approach to fraud applied research project for the West Midlands Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner.
Ben Donaldson OBE
Ben is the Managing Director for Economic Crime at UK Finance. He is responsible for leading our group in our collective effort to protect society by preventing economic crime. Ben works closely with a range of partners, including our members, other sectors, government, regulators and law enforcement. Ben is very focused on delivering through collaboration, recognising that reducing the terrible harm caused by economic crime can only be achieved through teamwork.
Prior to joining UK Finance Ben spent 23 years in government service in the UK and overseas. In 2015, he was awarded an OBE for services to Defence.
Nick Downing is the chair of the London Fraud Forum.
He is a Director in the forensic practice at Deloitte. He joined them after working as part of the executive team at CIFAS, UK Leaders in Fraud Prevention and a distinguished 30-year career in law enforcement, reaching the senior executive position of Assistant Chief Constable, Head of Serious, Organised and Economic Crime for Kent and Essex Police. As one of the UK's most senior detectives, he was the National Policing lead for Financial Investigation and Proceeds of Crime, leading a campaign across policing to maximise the use of financial intelligence
Nick has been the Director of the Serious Fraud Office since September 2023, leading the organisation to deliver its mission to fight complex financial crime, deliver justice for victims, and protect the UK’s reputation as a safe place to do business.
Nick joined the Metropolitan Police Service in 1990, initially serving in the East End of London. He served as Senior Investigating Officer in the Met’s Homicide command. He was responsible for designing and implementing the first iteration of the National Counter Terrorism Co-ordination Centre and was Borough Commander of Lambeth before his promotion to Commander for crime and criminal justice in the MPS Territorial Policing command
He served as Deputy Chief Constable then Chief Constable of Surrey Police before returning to the Metropolitan Police Service as Assistant Commissioner. In this role, he was initially responsible for delivering operational capabilities and specialist services across the service and then for delivering Frontline Policing. He represented policing nationally as Chair of the National Police Chief’s Council Criminal Justice Committee and as a member of both the Criminal Procedure Rules Committee and Sentencing Council.
Linda has extensive experience (25 years) of fraud management and compliance. Throughout her career she has managed fraud professionals and has a track record of delivering effective fraud solutions in both the private and public sector. She has led and worked on transformational projects driving operational efficiencies by centralising or automating functions both in the highest levels of the banking industry as well as senior levels of local government.
Representing IAFCI as vice president of the UK/EMEA region assisting the organisation and members in the fight against financial crime and fraud. With a proven formula we are excited to be working with more partners who really want to impact the future of the payment ecosystem where technology bridges the gap between financial crime and customer needs.
Brendan has been involved in insurance claims investigation for more than 25 years, with both Insurers and Adjusting practices. He is a member of the Anti-Fraud Special Interest Group council with the Chartered Institute of Loss Adjusters, and frequently involved in their activities, from industry conferences, to one off events. He holds Accredited Counter Fraud Specialist status and in his personal time, also studies Forensic Psychology, Behavioural Evidence Analysis and Criminal Profiling.
Brendan joined McLarens in 2022 to take the lead on the development of their Investigation Practice which has seen a resounding success and continues to grow from strength to strength. Brendan remains an active investigations practitioner in addition to operational duties, and has a wealth of experience in Commercial and Personal lines claims fraud, as well as agriculture, equine, plant & machinery, and a raft of other product types.
Helen Gregory
Helen is a Partner at Opus Forensic Accounting with over 25 years of experience. She specialises in civil and criminal financial investigations acting for both claimant and respondent and her work includes large, multi-national investigations and local owner managed business clients. She has given expert evidence in various courts and tribunals.
Helen is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales, a council member of The Academy of Experts and board member of the South West Fraud Forum.
Neil Green
Neil leads the Counter Fraud and Investigation team at the Government Internal Audit Agency (GIAA), an Executive Agency of HM Treasury. His team provides counter fraud and investigation services across more than 100 central government organisations. Neil has led several high-profile fraud investigations and leak inquiries across Government.
Neil won the TECA Outstanding Manager or Director Award in 2021 and is a Director and Vice Chair of the North West Fraud Forum, a not-for-profit membership organisation with the aim of helping organisations across the public and private sectors prevent fraud through awareness and advice.
Gaon Hart
Gaon is currently Chair at the NHS Counter-Fraud Authority. He is also Managing Director of a boutique corporate compliance consultancy, Legal Advisory Worldwide (L.A.W.). He develops corporate compliance programmes, collaborations and partnerships to tackle, fraud, bribery & corruption, ethics, human rights due diligence, proceeds of crime and other economic crimes.
He was formerly Head of Global Anti-Bribery & Corruption Advisory & Policy for HSBC Bank and a Senior Crown Advocate at the Crown Prosecution Service, Special Crime & Counter Terrorism Division. He not only holds adversarial rights in all criminal courts, but was lead prosecutor in Public Corruption, Prosecution Team Leader for the Fraud Prosecution Service and worked with two Attorney Generals to obtain cross-party support for the current counter-fraud institutions and architecture during the Fraud Review.
Rachael Herbert
Rachael is the new Director of the National Economic Crime Centre in the UK’s National Crime Agency. She is also responsible for the UKFIU. Her remit is to translate the threat understanding for illicit finance and fraud, into strategic and operational priorities for the UK’s response to economic crime. She does this in partnership with law enforcement, the private sectors, regulators, legislators and policy makers.
She is passionate about harnessing the intelligence from all parts of the system, and finding shared objectives to amplify collective impact on economic crime. She has worked in economic crime in the NCA for ten years, having previously worked across UK Government in multiple roles.
Dr Stephen Hill
Dr Stephen Hill is the managing director of Hill Bingham Ltd. He is a Certified Fraud Examiner and expert trainer with over 25 years’ experience providing services to the private and public sector in fraud (cyber) risk management, data security/protection and internet investigations & open-source intelligence.
He is also a director of Fraud Training Ltd an ACFE (Association of Certified Fraud Examiners) ‘Authorised Training Organisation’ and the exclusive provider of the Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) Exam Review Course for the United Kingdom training counter fraud professionals to the highest level in the field of fraud deterrence, detection and prevention.
Stephen spent over 11 years working for a top international firm of chartered accountants heading the Fraud and Forensic Group, leading an expert body advising clients on prevention, detection and recovery of fraudulent assets, working closely with the police, HMRC and private sector.
Dr. Branislav Hock
Associate Professor in Economic Crime & Compliance, University of Portsmouth
Branislav is a passionate interdisciplinary researcher who thrives in both an academic environment and practice contributing to the knowledge that exists in the area of economic crime and compliance. With a rapidly developing international reputation for excellence in policy-oriented research, Dr Hock has played advisory roles both nationally (Home Office, Synectic Solutions, Crowe) and internationally (EU Commission, European Court of Auditors, OECD).
Branislav has established an annual Winter Economic Crime Symposium and is the Co-Editor in Chief of the Journal of Economic Criminology.
Mateo Jarrin Cuvi
During his 25-year career, Mateo Jarrin Cuvi has played important roles in a wide array of industries, eventually landing in the financial services sector where he has focused on content creation and management and business writing geared towards the financial services industry.
After dabbling in the oil and gas field, managing media relations for the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington DC, and working as a program manager for a Cypriot study abroad firm, Mateo served as Content Manager for Taxlinked, an international network for tax and law professionals, and Content Writer for FXPRIMUS, a Forex broker with a strong presence in southeast Asia. Today, he leads the charge for the Association of Governance, Risk & Compliance (AGRC) as Global Manager for Partners and Media, establishing strategic partnerships, promoting the association’s work, and liaising with members and partner organisations.
Mateo holds BAs in Foreign Affairs and Latin American Studies from the University of Virginia (UVA) and an MA in Latin American Studies with a focus on Sociology and Anthropology from the University of California in San Diego (UCSD). Plus, he’s a journalist and writer who has published fiction, food and wine articles, financial content, and other travel-related pieces in several local and global publications.
Claire Jenkins
Claire is Chair of of ALEFA – the Association of Law Enforcement Forensic Accountants. She is a qualified ACCA accountant and holds a MSc in Forensic Accounting, with her dissertation focussing on the subject of external fraud actors.
She is a triple award winner at the Tackling Economic Crime Awards, winning the Outstanding Female Professional award in 2019 and 2020 and the Outstanding Tackling Economic Crime Professional award in 2021. She has been featured in ACCA’s Accounting and Business magazine twice and regularly speaks at counter fraud events providing insight on how critically assessing accounts can help fraud fighters and investigators alike.
She works as a Forensic Accountant at Companies House within the Integrity and Enforcement Unit.
Jacqueline Luporini
Jackie is a Risk & Compliance Specialist with over 40 years Financial Services experience. She has worked in various areas across the Banking sector as well as leading Investigation and Whistleblowing Teams and has extensive Fraud and Financial Crime experience.
Jackie is also involved in the Charitable sector as Vice Chair of a Glasgow Charity (HomeStart Glasgow & Morth Lanarkshire) ensuring the Strategic aims are met and creating the correct environment for young children to grow and flourish.
Allan Maund
Allan is a seasoned expert in anti-financial crime, bringing over 31 years of experience across multiple sectors and countries. While his career spans both public and private domains, the majority of his work has been rooted in the commercial sector, where he has developed deep expertise in financial crime, ethical governance, and compliance.
For the past four years, Allan has served as the Financial Crime Lead at a major Social Housing provider. In this role, he oversees all aspects of financial crime risk management, ethical conduct, and modern slavery prevention, ensuring robust safeguards and integrity across the organisation.
Allan is also a dedicated contributor to the professional community. Since 2015, he has been a board member and board secretary of the UK Chapter of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), where he supports strategic initiatives and promotes best practices in fraud examination and financial crime prevention.
Marc McAuley
With 28 years of working in and leading counter fraud and anti-corruption services, Marc has been instrumental in promoting, developing, and delivering counter fraud and anti-corruption strategies to strengthen organisational efforts to protect from fraud, bribery and corruption.
He is recognised as a leading expert in his field, working with various advisory boards and working groups to develop industry standards, advise on policy and legislation, develop counter fraud frameworks and strategies, and strengthen counter fraud capability through professionalism, including: The International Fraud Group (IFG) Strategic Advisory Board and The Government's Counter Fraud Cross Sector Advisory Group (CSAG).
He has also previously been involved in: the Fighting Fraud and Corruption Locally Board (FFCL), the Consultative Committee of Accounting Bodies (CCAB) Economic Crime Panel and the Local Government Association (LGA) Cyber Security Stakeholder Group.
Marc has delivered counter fraud, bribery, anti-corruption, and risk management training globally and is proud to be a judge for the Tackling Economic Crime Awards (TECA's) which recognises achievements in tackling economic crime.
Bill McCluggage
Bill is the chair and a director of the Northern Ireland Fraud Forum. He is a specialist in IT-enabled business change, digital transformation, cyber security and counter-fraud.
Following a career as an engineering officer in the RAF, he joined Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast as IT director, he has held senior civil service positions in Norther Ireland, the Cabinet Office and the Department of Public Expenditure & Reform in Dublin.
He runs his own consulting business working in both the public and private sectors. He is Non-executive Director (Digital) on the Board of FCDO Services, a member of the Governing Body of the Northern Regional College where he chairs the Audit & Risk Committee, a director of an Australian cyber security company, a director of Triangle Housing Association where he chairs the Audit & Risk Committee and he is a CIO/CISO advisor for a large American software company.
From 2016-2019 he was Head of Information Security, Assurance and Counter-fraud at the UK’s Open Banking Implementation Entity.
Jon Radford
Jon became Head of Intelligence, Investigations & Data Services for the Insurance Fraud Bureau in January 2023 and is responsible for the day to day running of the IFB’s teams across all departments executing delivery of services to all of its members and the wider insurance industry.
Prior to his role at the IFB, Jon joined QBE in 2007 and in 2012 joined the then newly created SIU team where he was responsible for handling complex fraudulent claims and implementing new fraud strategies to the UK Property, Casualty and Motor divisions. Jon handled QBE’s very first custodial sentence claim via IFED and ran QBE’s first tort of deceit and exemplary damages court action against an organised crime group. In 2016, Jon seconded to QBE’s Australian Operation in Sydney to set up their claim’s fraud team and future fraud strategy which led to the beginnings of a more joined up global fraud strategy. Jon became Head of Claims Fraud for QBE European Operations in 2017 and was responsible for fraud strategy management for all lines of business across all of QBE’s European and Asian territories.
Jon who has over 20 years’ experience in the insurance fraud environment began his career at Equity Redstar in 1999. Jon has amassed a wealth of industry knowledge across all classes of business from many different global territories as well as and representing different organisations on various industry committees delivering work that has helped support and benefit the whole insurance industry.
Toni Sless
Toni is a Senior Fraud Risk Management Consultant with extensive experience in providing strategic and advisory services to multiple international organisations across various sectors, including financial services. Toni’s extensive career has equipped her with a well-developed and comprehensive understanding of fraud risk management, cyber fraud, insider threats, incident management, project and programme management, as well as contract governance and implementation.
Toni has successfully led on and implemented business wide fraud risk management controls, policy governance frameworks, fraud risk strategies, target operating models and operational roadmaps for FinTechs, Challenger Banks, UK and International Banks as well as a global insurance company. Toni excels at instilling passion and enthusiasm, building strong stakeholder relationships and engagement at all levels.
Toni is also the founder and Chairwoman of the Fraud Women’s Network, which was established in 2007. She also sits on the Editorial Board of the Public Sector Counter Fraud Journal providing guidance and oversight to the Cabinet Office’s Centre of Expertise for Counter Fraud. In her spare time, Toni mentors many women in various disciplines including cyber security and fraud prevention and continues to drive the Fraud Women’s Network to support, guide and nurture women working in the arena. Toni also works with her local community promoting local interests, improving housing conditions, amenities, security and the environment.
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Rachael Tiffen
Rachael was Head of Audit and Counter Fraud in 3 London Boroughs. At the National Fraud Authority, Home Office in 2010 as Head of UK Public Sector Fraud she researched and drafted the first local government counter fraud strategy Fighting Fraud Locally (FFL) and created pilot data hubs using partnerships.
In 2013 she joined the MoD as manager of the Fraud Defence Unit. In 2014 she created the CIPFA Counter Fraud Centre - creating qualifications and services, drafting the second FFCL Strategy for HMG, she then researched and drafted FFCL2020s whilst at Cifas . Whilst here she created a consortium of data partners leading the team to win the contract for the London Counter Fraud Hub.
Rachael is a well-known speaker and author on counter fraud and corruption, sitting on a number of industry boards. She is the Independent Person for Standards and Ethics at the LB Tower Hamlets and at the London Borough of Islington. Rachael won Stella Walsh Award “Lifetime Achievement in Countering Fraud”, the TECA ‘Lifetime Achievement’ 2023 award, the 2023 FFCL Outstanding Contribution Award and the ‘Outstanding Contribution’ award at the Public Sector Award 2024 .
Rachael is Director of Public Sector and Learning at Cifas – the UK’s Fraud Prevention Service.
Josie Welland
Josie Welland is a Senior Managing Associate at Sidley Austin LLP’s London office. She specialises in technology disputes, with a strong focus on international civil and criminal cyber matters. She advises clients—particularly major online platforms and technology companies—on a wide range of cyber issues including brand impersonation, intellectual property litigation, computer misuse, and fraud investigations. Josie regularly acts in complex litigation and investigations involving both criminal and civil elements and is known for her strategic insight in handling online harm and emerging cyber threats.
In addition to her cyber practice, Josie has significant experience in crisis management and defending clients in financial crime matters. She has represented individuals and corporations in investigations by agencies such as the Serious Fraud Office, HMRC, and the FCA. Her expertise extends to digital assets.
Outside of her work at Sidley, Josie is the chair of the Female Fraud Forum.
Michael Wong
Michael is a Director of the Yorkshire and Humber Fraud Forum, supporting the sharing of best practice amongst counter-fraud professionals to increase awareness and, ultimately, reduce levels of fraud and financial crime across the region.
He qualified as an accountant with the Audit Commission where he initially developed an interest in the counter-fraud profession through reviews of organisations’ responses to initiatives such as NFI data matching exercises and Local Counter Fraud Specialist activities. He is currently a Senior Manager in KPMG’s Forensic practice, a role which has led to his involvement in a range of fraud, anti-bribery & corruption and accounting investigations, across both the public and private sectors and multiple jurisdictions. Michael is also an Accredited Counter Fraud Specialist and he provides proactive support to organisations to help them develop effective Fraud Risk Management governance frameworks.