Mr George Staple CB QC Chairman Fraud Advisory Panel Former Director Serious Fraud Office UK	George Staple is currently a partner at Clifford Chance, a leading London law firm, and has thirty years experience of all forms of commercial litigation and arbitration in the UK and abroad.  He served as a DTI Inspector in the Consolidated Gold Fields Plc 1986 and Aldermanbury Trust Plc 1988 cases. He also sat as Chairman of the Authorisation and Disciplinary Tribunal of The Securities Association and Securities and Futures Authority between 1987 and 1991.  In 1992 Mr Staple was appointed Director of the Serious Fraud Office, a position he held until 1997.  During this period he was responsible for the investigation and prosecution of all forms of serious and complex fraud; the investigation of regulatory breaches under The Financial Services Act 1986; and for advice to regulators, banks and other financial institutions in the field of financial services. For many years Mr Staple has been a member of the Commercial Court Committee and from 1989 to 1992 he served as Treasurer of the Law Society.  He is now a Member of the Senior Salaries Review body and Chairman of the Fraud Advisory Panel.
Mr Jean-Pierre Paelinck Secretary General EURISA & Euroshareholders Former Secretary General Federation of European Stock Exchanges	Jean-Pierre Paelinck, was born in Ghent, Belgium, and is married to Hedwine GHUYS. He earned a degree in Economic Sciences from the University of Ghent in 1962. In 1976 he earned a doctorate degree in Economic Sciences also from the University of Ghent. His dissertation was on “Banking Concentration in the EEC”. Former professional activities include: Société Générale de Banque, Bank IPPA, Manager of the International Westminster Bank in Antwerp, Director of Banque Commerciale de Bruxelles and Secretary General of the Federation of European Stock Exchanges.  He is currently Secretary General of “Euroshareholders” and guest professor at the Hautes Etudes Commerciales of Liège on the subjects of European economics, international finance and international economic issues. He is also Secretary General of the European Investment Services Association (EURISA a.s.b.l.), President of the Institut de Références des Marchés S.A., Managing Director of EUROPRIVEC S.A., Member of the Board of the Compagnie Financière du Lombard S.A. and member of the Supervisory Board of DUBUS S.A. (stock exchange brokerage company in Lille - France) In his current capacity Dr Paelinck is specialising in international finance, focusing currently on capital markets and privatisation in Central and Eastern Europe. He also serves as Honorary Consul of Guatemala in Ghent.
Mr Stan Morris Chief of Staff & Directeur du Cabinet du Secrétaire Général  Interpol	Former Director US Treasury Department Financial Enforcement Network (FinCen) Since 2000 Mr Morris has been Chief of Staff and Directeur du Cabinet du Secrétaire Général, ICPO-Interpol.  In this position he directed the transition of the new Secretary General and is currently responsible to the Secretary General for the strategic development and management of the Organization Prior to this, from 1998 - 2000 Mr Morris worked as a private consultant on International Financial matters primarily focusing on Money Laundering International Uand risk prevention in emerging markets.  He served as an expert consultant to the Council of Europe, the US Departments of State, Justice and Treasury, the Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs and he was a member of the Board of Directors of TransparencySA, the non-governmental organization concerned with corruption. From 1994 to 1998 Mr Morris was Director of the US Treasury Departments’ Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN - the primary anti-money laundering unit in the US government).  Mr Morris headed the US delegation to the 26 nation  Financial Action Task Force in Paris, as well as numerous other international forums; and was cofounder of the Egmont Group which is a 50 nation group of Financial Intelligence Units similar to FinCEN
Mr Manuel Alvarez-Sobredo Expert, Financial Crime Europol	Manuel graduated from the University of Madrid in Psychology, specialising in Social and Organisational Psychology. In 1997 he was incorporated to the Spanish National Police as Lieutenant at the same time as being Head of the Central Cabinet of Psychology in Madrid. Having held various posts in the Secretariat of State for Security, Manuel was promoted in 1988 to become Head of the Institute of Study Research in the Cabinet of the DG of the Spanish Police. Last year, Manuel was seconded as an expert to Europol as part of the Financial Crime Unit. In addition, he was also a member of the Academic Council of the Police Academy, responsible for the security of the Olympic Games in Barcelona, and more recently, Director of the Ciencia Political Review.
Mr John Aspden Cheif Executive Isle of Mann Financial Supervision Commission	John Aspden has wide experience and has held a number senior positions in international finance. He began his career at the Bank of England in 1972, where he remained until 1988, working in the area of Banking Supervision. He continued his career in supervision as consultant to the Commissioner of Banking in Hong Kong from 1988 to 1992, on secondment from the Bank of England. In this position he was active in the supervision of a wide range of banks and in the formulation of banking supervision policy. . From there Mr Aspden took the position of Deputy General Manager at the International Bank of Asia, with overall responsibility for retail banking, investment and securities activities, and insurance underwriting. In 1996 Mr Aspden became Managing Director of Matheson InvestNet Ltd, a subsidiary of Jardine Matheson & Co, which he left in 1998 to take up his position at the Isle of Man Financial Supervision Commission.
Mr Graham Bailey Senior Consultant Searchspace	Graham Bailey specialises in the design and implementation of intelligent enterprise systems for Risk Management control, prevention and detection within retail banks, investment banks and stock exchanges / dealing environments. Graham has an academic background in Mathematical modelling, and then was trained by Ernst & Young consulting in Business Process Re-engineering and Change Management. A former manager at NatWest Bank for five years, his previous roles have ranged from managing operational risk prevention projects to ensuring FSA compliance within the Life, Pensions and Investment industry through to the strategic development of e-commerce banking for the UK’s premier corporate bank.
Mr Raj Bairoliya Managing Director Forensic Accounting Ltd	Raj is a chartered Accountant by profession, a graduate of Imperial College, London with a degree in Computing Science. He is also a Certified Fraud Examiner and has an Executive MBA. Until last year he worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers chiefly operating in audits of banks and financial services, alongside investigations for the Serious Fraud Office. Cases covered include investigating the treasury division of BCCI alongside cases of insider dealing, as well as work on options and commodities. Raj is the founder and Manging Director of  Forensic Accounting Ltd, an organisation operating within the UK and overseas. His work covers many areas of investigation, including, civil and criminal fraud, regulatory, asset tracing, money and laundering. His other areas of expertise include acting as an expert witness and fraud risk management consultancy. His recent commissions include assisting the Bank for International Settlements with Holocaust related claims.
Mr Ian Carrington Financial Expert United Nations Global Programme against Money Laundering (GPML)	Ian Carrington was born on the Caribbean island of Barbados in 1955.  He completed a Bachelor of Science degree in Public Administration at the University of The West Indies in 1978 and later went on to complete an MBA in Banking Management at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom.  Mr Carrington is also a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing of the UK.  He worked as a Budget Analyst in the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs in the Barbados Government and also served as a Project Analyst at the Barbados Development Bank.  He joined the Central Bank of Barbados in 1983 where he assumed responsibility for management of the Industrial Credit Fund, an industrial financing facility funded by World Bank.  In 1990 he became the Deputy Director of Bank Supervison at the Central Bank of Barbados and was appointed Director in 1998.  Mr Carrington has served on a number of national committees that have advised the Government of Barbados on the development of the legal framework for its international business sectors.  Mr Carrington joined the United Nations’ Office of Drug Control and Crime Prevention in July 2000 and currently holds the position of Financial Expert with the Global Programme against Money Laundering (GPML).  In his current capacity he assits GPML in providing technical assistance to countries on their anti-money laundering infrastructure.
Dr David Chaikin Chief Executive Cyberbrief Consultants	Dr Chaikin is a legal practitioner who specialises in commercial and tax law and financial investigations.  He is former Senior Assistant Secretary and Head of the International Branch of the Australian Federal Attorney-General’s Department in Canberra and Senior Fraud Officer in the Legal Division of the London-based diplomatic body, the Commonwealth Secretariat. Dr David Chaikin is founder and chief executive of Cyberbrief Consultants, a company specialising in competitive intelligence, data management and retrieval through the Internet, especially in relation to hidden assets.  Since 1994 Dr Chaikin and Cyberbrief have advised various governments in the Asia Pacific region in relation to the conduct of money laundering investigations and acted as a consultant to multinational corporations in cases of bank fraud and corruption. He has a distinguished academic career with a Doctorate in corporate law from Cambridge University, a Masters of Law from Yale Law School, and double degrees in law and commerce from the University of New South Wales, Australia.  He has been a Visiting Professor of Law at Sydney University and Bond University and a Law Lecturer at the London School of Economics and Political Science and at Kings College, London.
Mr William Cleghorn Partner Forensic Services PricewaterhouseCoopers, Belfast	Bill Cleghorn has wide investigative experience, from fraud cases in the UK to more complex assignments such as Polly Peck plc in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and in 1998 he led a team investigating the collapse of the 12 pyramid schemes in Albania.  For the last ten years he has worked extensively with one UK police force looking at various types of criminal activities connected with corruption, counterfeiting and money laundering, and has appeared in court as an expert witness on numerous occasions.  In 1999 he lectured on money laundering and international financial investigations at the Third Hemispheric Conference on Money Laundering in Panama. Until July 2000, he was Head of UK Investigations for PricewaterhouseCoopers but has subsequently moved to their Belfast office.
Mr Mark Crickett Director Marketing, Currency Division De La Rue	Mark joined De La Rue in 1983 and has fulfilled a variety of roles in the marketing function of the business, where he is currently Director of Marketing for the Currency Division.  During the course of his career he has been heavily involved in the fields of currency and cash cycle management and the development and introduction of new technologies to deter counterfeiting.
Ms Jennifer Dilbert Government Representative in the UK “Cayman Islands"	Jennifer Dilbert is the Cayman Inlands Government Representative in the United Kingdom, having taken upthese duties in August of 2000. Ms. Dilbert was Executive Director of Deutsche Bank (Cayman) Limited from 1996 to 1999 where she headed a team of over 40 staff offering a comprehensive range of mutual fund administration, banking, corporate financing and fiduciary services. She previously served with the Cayman Islands Government for 17 years, 15 of which were spent in financial supervision. As inspector of Financial Services for the Cayman Islands Government, she headed the Financial Services Supervision Department, the precursor to the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority, which was responsible for the regulation of banks, trust and insurance companies, mutual funds and administrators, and company managers.  In this capacity she worked closely with international supervisors including the Basle Committee, the Bank of England and the Federal Reserve Board.  She was also very involved in the worldwide marketing of the Cayman Islands as a Financial Centre.  Prior to this, Ms. Dilbert managed the Cayman Islands Currency Board.  She is currently a Member of the Board of the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority. An economics graduate of the University of Western Ontario in Canada, Ms. Dilbert has two daughters, Rita who is in University in London and Juliette who attends high school in Canada.
Mr Brian Filbert Supervisory Special Agent Federal Bureau of Investigation	Brian Filbert has gained degrees in Journalism and Law Degree from the University of Missouri.  In 1987 he was admitted to the Missouri Bar. In 1989 Brian became a Special Agent in the Oklahoma City and St. Louis Divisions of the FBI.  He investigated mostly White Collar Crime matters, with an emphasis in the corruption and investment fraud areas.  Brian was a case agent on the largest corruption case in Oklahoma history and did a significant amount of work on the Oklahoma City bombing.  He has also been a case agent on securities fraud, bank fraud, bank robberies, drug conspiracies, and fugitive investigations In August 2000 Brian was appointed Supervisory Special Agent at the Economic Crimes Unit, Financial Crimes Section, at FBI Headquarters in Washington D.C., and National Program Manager of the Securities, Commodities, and Investment Fraud Matters for the FBI.
Mr Fredrik Galtung Director Research Transparency International (TI)	Fredrik Galtung is a founding staff member and Head of Research at Transparency International (TI), the international anti-corruption NGO. He has overall responsibility for TI’s annual Corruption Perceptions Index and the Bribe Payer’s Index, socioeconomic indicators that have become widely used in recent years. Frederick is a distinguished author and international lecturer, having published numerous studies and articles on corruption, and worked and lectured in over 30 countries. He lives in Cambridge, England.
Mr Martin Grieves Chief Anti-Money Laundering Officer Citigroup EMEA	Martin Grieves retired from the Metropolitan Police Service as a Detective Superintendent where he had been a specialist in the investigation of white collar crime offences and training in relation to fraud and financial investigations.   He then worked as a Principal Financial Investigator at the Serious Fraud Office, running an office, responding to requests, from overseas, for assistance in cases of serious or complex fraud.   He has recently moved to Citigroup as the Money Laundering Reporting Officer.   He has lectured extensively on fraud, corruption, risk analysis and crime prevention.
Mr Joseph Halligan Head of International Financial Services HM Treasury UK Head of UK delegation to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF)	Joseph Halligan has been Head of the International Financial Services team in the Treasury since February 1999.  His responsibilities include UK policy on money laundering, financial crime and offshore centres.  He is the head of the UK delegation to the Financial Action Task Force and he was the UK representative on the Financial Stability Forum’s working group on offshore financial centres.
Mr Tristram Hicks Head of Financial Investigation Metropolitan Police, UK	Tristram Hicks left York University in 1981 and after a brief foray into accountancy with Touche Ross he joined the Metropolitan Police just over 15 years ago.  He has worked in operational roles all over South London before joining the Specialist Crime OCU in 1999.  He is now Head of Financial Investigation with strategic responsibility for all the asset confiscation units in the Metropolitan Police Area and the investigation of all suspicious transaction reports allocated by NCIS (about a third of the UK total).
Mr Neil Jeans Global Anti Money Laundering Officer ABN AMRO Bank	For seven years, Neil Jeans worked as a dealer on the Stock Market floor and as a private client stockbroker, subsequently moving to the investment management side of the business.  In 1991, Neil joined the Metropolitan Police Services, and after 18 months as a uniformed officer became involved in financial investigation work, initially undertaking  financial profiling for drug traffickers, murder suspects and murder victims.  Ultimately joined in the National Crime Squad of England & Wales Money Laundering Investigation Team where he undertook domestic and international money laundering investigation.  In 1998, Neil joined  the Financial Services Authority where he was a supervisor and also  represented the PIA, SFA & IMRO on the FSA’ money laundering laws committee.  Subsequently, he became joint-fee manager on the FSA’s money laundering scheme, which was aiming to discover key areas and levels of money laundering compliance throughout the financial serves industry in  the UK.  Neil joined ABN AMRO in October 2000 as UK Money Laundering Reporting Officer  He was recently appointed Global AMLO for the Wholesale Division of the bank with responsibility for money laundering and compliance in 51 countries throughout the world.
Mr Wibout de Klijne Security Co-ordinator Rabobank Group	Wibout De Klijne is employed by the Rabobank Group in the Netherlands in the capacity of security co-ordinator.  As such,  he is responsible for policy concerning non-commercial risks such as bank robbery, theft and fraud. Among the larger projects for which he is responsible are the implementation of an e-learning course on money laundering and, of course, the introduction of the Euro. Wibout has been responsible for all policy concerning this last project for the past three years. The activities within this project concern policy with regard to the storage, transportation and handling of the enormous flow of euros and guilders in the last months of this year and the first months of 2002. In his spare time Mr. de Klijne is a student of philosophy and law at a Dutch university.
Mr Phillippe de Koster Solicitor General, & Deputy Head of Cabinet, Kingdom of Belgium	Philippe de Koster was appointed Solicitor General in December 1997, at the Attorney General’s office at the Court of Appeal and the Social Security Court of Justice in Mons. Having first qualified in 1983 at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Philippe de Koster practised as a barrister at the Brussels Bar until 1985, and a period of twelve years as Public Prosecutor in the Financial Crimes Division followed. In addition to his role as Solicitor General, in 1995 Philippe de Koster was seconded to the European Commission’s Antifraud directorate, UCLAF.
Mr Manuel Lezertua Head of Section, Economic & Organised Crime Council of Europe	Manuel graduated in law in Bilbao, receiving his LLM in London. Having worked with the Department of Presidence and Justice for the Basque Government from 1983-1985, he later worked as a lawyer for the Constitutional Court of Spain until 1994. He has considerable experience within the Council of Europe, including the European Social Charter, European Commission of Human Rights, Committee of Ministers, and the Directorate of Legal Affairs in the Department of Crime Problems. Since 1996 he has been Head of The Economic Crime Division. He has lectured extensively in the area of European Human Rights Law, variously at the International Institute of Human Rights in Strasbourg, Deusto University and  the University of Navarra. He is also a well-known author on Human rights, European Integration, and International Criminal Law.
Mr Erik Madsen Specialised Officer, Interpol General Secretariat, Lyon	Erik Madsen, entered the Danish police in 1984, and graduated from the National Police Academy in 1987. He served in the uniformed branch as a Police Constable until 1989. From 1989 - 1993 Mr Madsen worked as a case officer as well as part of a surveillance team with the Intelligence Service(PET). Educated as bodyguard in 1994, Erik began dealing with the protection of foreign VIP’s and was then attached to the CID in a suburb of Copenhagen from 1994 - 1995. In 1995 Erik joined Interpol Copenhagen, working for 2 years in the drugs section, 2 years in the general crime section and 1 year with the economic crime branch. In 1995 he was promoted to Detective Inspector. Since August 2000 he has been seconded to the Interpol General Secretariat as a Specialized Officer with the Economic Crime Branch dealing with Economic Crime in general and West African Fraud in particular.
Mr James R. McGunn Manager Investigations, Interclaim	Mr. McGunn is the Manager of Investigations for Interclaim (Ireland).  Mr. McGunn begun his 28-year government career in intelligence, security and criminal investigations when recruited into the US Secret Service in 1969, where he served as a Special Agent criminal investigator until 1980.  From 1980 until retiring from government service in 1997, Mr. McGunn was a federal investigator with the Offices of Inspectors General for several agencies, including the US Department of Defense and the US Agency for International Development (“USAID”).  As a commissioned Foreign Service Officer, Mr. McGunn managed investigations of large-scale economic crime against American foreign assistance programs and operations, world-wide. Mr. McGunn worked out of the Republic of Singapore from 1988 to 1993 as the USAID Deputy Regional Inspector General for Investigations, operating primarily in South Asia and the Pacific Rim. Between 1993 and 1995, he worked investigations in Eastern Europe and the Central Asian republics of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Kyrgyzstan. From 1995 to September 1997, Mr. McGunn was posted to the US Consulate in Frankfurt, Germany, as the Regional Agent in Charge for Europe, Asia and the New Independent States of the former Soviet Union.  Mr. McGunn holds Bachelor of Arts (philosophy and psychology) and Master of Sciences (Administration of Justice) degrees from San Jose State University in California.  He is also an alumnus of the post graduate School of Strategic Intelligence, US Defense Intelligence Agency. His experience prior to the US government included service in airborne units of the US Marines and as a police officer in San Jose, California. Mr. McGunn joined Interclaim in 1997, and currently lives in Dublin, Ireland. He is 58 years of age.
Mr Stephen Philippsohn Senior Partner Philippsohn Crawfords Berwald	Steven is a leading authority on fraud. Over the last 20 years his firm has been retained by national and international organisations all of whom have been victims of fraud.   The firm has an extensive international network of experienced lawyers and investigators - which has proved an invaluable asset to the fight against the increasingly sophisticated fraudster    The firm was identified in the 2000 edition of The Legal 500 as a leading fraud litigation practice in the UK. Steven has been invited to speak regularly to international corporations and institutions as well as to other lawyers.  He has recently given papers at the International Bar Association, the International Chamber of Commerce and to a UK Government Department. He is asked for comment regularly by the media and has been interviewed on the BBC, Sky Television and CNBC.  He is also invited to write articles for newspapers and specialist law publications. In addition he is co-editor of the UK Manual of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners and is an active member of the association. He is a member of the IAAC, the E-Fraud working party of the Fraud Advisory Panel and the Editorial Board of E-Commerce Law & Policy. Steven obtained Honours in the Law Society qualifying examinations, prior to becoming a solicitor in 1972. He moved quickly to become the litigation partner of a substantial Central London practice prior to starting his own firm in 1979.
Mr Aquilino Q. Pimentel Jnr Senate President & Chairman Blue Ribbon Committee“Republic of the Philippines	Senator Pimentel has been Senate President since November of last year, having been elected to the Senate in 1998, for a period of six years.  He is also Chairman of the Committee on Public Accountability and Investigations (Blue Ribbon committee): Under Senator Pimentel’s leadership of  the Blue Ribbon Committee he has recommended the prosecution of public officials and private individuals involved in: · The Expo Pilipino centennial celebration anomaly; · The misuse of funds of the Retirement and Separation Benefits System (RSBS) of the Armed Forces of the Philippines; ·  The faking of land titles at the Land Registration Administration; and ·  The anomalous DILG-Mahogany drug testing contracts. Committee on Local Government: As chair of the Committee on Local Government, far-reaching amendments are being proposed to further strengthen the role of local government units in the development of the nation. He has also obtained Senate approval to return the police to the supervision of local government units. Senator Pimentel is also the author or sponsor of  a number of important pieces of legislation, including: Republic Act No. 8746, 13 September 1999, for the elections of ARMM officials. Republic Act No. 7160, The Local Government Code of 1991. The Code liberates provinces, cities, municipalities, and barangay from over-dependence on the central government by increasing their powers and shares in the taxes and wealth of the nation. Republic Act No. 6938, The Cooperative Code. The Code provides government encouragement and support for the establishment of all kinds of people’s cooperatives to help combat poverty.
Ms Kimberly Prost Head of Criminal Law Unit & Deputy Director Legal and Constitutional Affairs Division Commonwealth Secretariat	A graduate of the University of Manitoba Law School in 1981, Ms. Prost joined the Department of Justice of Canada in the Winnipeg Regional Office in 1982, where she worked as a federal prosecutor for five years. During this time she conducted various trials in drug, tax and general criminal matters. She also handled some appellate cases. Since 1987, she has worked within the field of international criminal law. In that year, she moved to Ottawa to join the newly formed Crimes against Humanity and War Crimes Unit of the Department of Justice, where she spent two and a half years. The unit worked on possible prosecutions under the provisions of the Criminal Code relating to war crimes and crimes against humanity. During this time, Ms. Prost had the opportunity to work with officials in other countries, particularly those in Russia, Eastern Europe and the Baltic states in gathering evidence for possible prosecutions and to provide legal advice on complex issues relating to international criminal law. In 1990, she took up a position within the recently formed International Assistance Group ( IAG) of the Department of Justice. The IAG acts as Canada’s central authority for international criminal cooperation matters. Over the next ten years, Ms. Prost worked almost exclusively in the field of international cooperation in criminal matters, dealing with policy development and casework relating to extradition and mutual legal assistance.  She was named Director of the IAG in 1994 and in that position, in addition to general management responsibilities, worked both internationally and domestically on the development of practice and policy relating to international cooperation in criminal matters.
Mr Nick Ridley Intelligence Analyst Europol	After graduating in History, Nick Ridley joined the Metropolitan Police Civil Staff, and became an Intelligence Analyst in the Criminal Intelligence Branch of the Metropolitan Police.  As part of his duties, he served in both the Metropolitan Police Anti-terrorist Squad and Special Branch. He served on secondment as a senior criminal Intelligence Analyst in the Organised Crime Unit of the National Criminal Intelligence Service.  He is currently working as an Intelligence Analyst at Europol in The Hague, Netherlands. Since 1986 Nick has been monitoring organised crime trends within the former Soviet Union and Central Europe.  He has lectured on intelligence to the European (Operational Analysis) Law Enforcement Course at the Netherlands Detective Training School in Zutphen, and his organised and held a one-day seminar on Criminal Finance from Central and Eastern Europe at the Intelligence Analysis Dept, Police Headquarters, Lisbon Portugal. Nick’s duties at Europol include specialising in Eastern European organised crime and, within the mandate of EDU, its impact upon Europe.  In this context he has given advisory briefings to the European Commission prior to their various specialist TACIS missions to Central and Eastern Europe. He speaks French and Serbo-Croatian, and has studied and travelled extensively within Central and Eastern Europe.  He is also studying for a research degree, supervised by the Dept of Politics at Southampton University, and given official encouragement by Europol.  The thesis concerns international relations in the Balkans and the interaction with criminal finances.
Mr Ilmars Rimsevics Deputy Governor and Chairman of the Executive Board Bank of Latvia	Ilmars Rimsevics is  of the Riga Technical University (1983-1990), with a BA in economics and international trade relations. From 1988 to 1989 he also studied at St. Lawrence University (USA), receiving an honours degree, and subsequently at Clarkson University, USA where he obtained an MBA. Mr. Rimsevics has been Deputy Chairman of the Economics Committee of the Popular Front of Latvia (1989-1990), Manager of Foreign Operations Department and Head of Securities Department at the commercial bank Latvijas Zemes Banka (1990-1992). In July 1992, the Supreme Council of the Republic of Latvia appointed Mr. Rimsevics Deputy Governor of the Bank of Latvia, and in August 1992, the Board of Governors of the Bank of Latvia appointed Mr. Rimsevics Chairman of the Executive Board of the Bank of Latvia. Again in July 1998, the Saeima reappointed Mr. Rimsevics Deputy Governor for a second term of six years.
HE Sir Ronald Sanders High Commissioner to the Court of St James Antigua and Barbuda	Sir Ronald is a senior diplomat on behalf of the Islands of Antigua and Barbuda, and holds the rank of a member of the Cabinet. He was educated at the Universities of Boston (US) and Sussex (UK), obtaining a Master of Arts in International Relations.  He has enjoyed a wide and varied career, holding senior positions both in the media and in international diplomacy.  Apart from his position as High Commissioner, Sir Ronald has wide experience of international organisations and public communications, having held a number of important directorships, including: Member of the Executive Board of UNESCO (1985 to 1987), where he helped set policy direction for UNESCO and served as Chairman or member of committees to negotiate and draft agreements between Board members on issues facing the Organisation. Member of the Inter-Governmental Council of the International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) (1983 to 1987),  where he considered and approved projects for funding by IPDC to improve and enhance communications in developing countries, particularly where such projects strengthened press freedom and development objectives. Member of the Board of Directors of the Caribbean News Agency (CANA) (1975 to 1977), where he helped to launch the News Agency, and set its policy to ensure its commercial viability. Member of the Board of Directors of the Guyana Broadcasting Service, Guyana (1973 to 1975) Helped to set broadcasting, commercial and personnel policy for the Radio Station.
Mr Martin Smith M.B.E Managing Director The Security Company International	Martin Smith is a leading security professional with unique international experience in all aspects of corporate and IT security, Business Continuity Planning and Crisis Management.   He is an established international speaker and author on business management, motivation, presentation skills and corporate security.  His IBM-sponsored book “Commonsense Computer Security” is used by universities world-wide and throughout commerce and industry.  He is on the Editorial Board of  “Computers and Security”, he regularly contributes to national and international news networks, and he regularly speaks at major international conferences. A graduate in psychology, Martin spent nearly 20 years in the Royal Air Force, firstly as a pilot and then in the Security Services employed in the fascinating fields of counter-terrorism, counter-espionage and computer security.  He has since held several senior management positions, including: •Cedel International, as Head of Security •The Standard Chartered Bank, as Head of Information Security. • Kroll Associates, as Director of Corporate Security. •Touche Ross Management Consultants as a Managing Consultant in security management organisation. He has worked around the world with many leading international organisations, defining and building global security, fraud prevention and business continuity processes.  He is now the Managing Director of The Security Company International Limited.
Mr Mark Tantam Partner Forensic Services Deloitte & Touche UK	Mark Tantam has a degree in jurisprudence from Oxford University.  He practised at the Common Law Bar until 1987 when he joined first the Fraud Investigation Group within the Headquarters of the Crown Prosecution Service and then the Serious Fraud Office.  He joined Deloitte & Touche in 1990 and became a partner in 1997. Mark has managed a wide variety of investigations including those arising from the collapse of Polly Peck International Plc and various companies controlled by the late Robert Maxwell.  He has conducted exercises to recover assets in Europe, America and Asia. He now leads the Fraud Management arm of the Forensic Services Department in Deloitte & Touche in London.   As such, he oversees investigations, risk assessment exercises, business intelligence services and asset tracing initiatives.  He also advises companies on how to combat corporate fraud. He has given evidence on several occasions on subjects including the recovery of evidence from computers, the progress of an investigation and the presentation of various concepts arising from cases of employee fraud. Mark is currently responsible for editing the Computer Crime chapter of Sweet & Maxwell’s, Encyclopaedia of Information Technology, he is the scientific expert on the Council of Europe Committee examining the problem of crime in Cyberspace and is the author of a substantial number of articles on different aspects of fraud investigation.
Mr Steve Vanhinsbergh Senior Manager, Security & Fraud Control Visa International (EU)	Steve Vanhinsbergh is senior manager fraud control and security for Visa EU, a position he has since February 1994.  His responsibilities include the development of programmes to control security and fraud and the management of investigative support to both the members and law enforcement agencies.  Before his promotion he worked as senior investigator for the risk management and security department. Prior to joining Visa in 1991, Mr Vanhinsbergh was a police officer working at Scotland Yard, London. Married with two children, Mr Vanhinsbergh enjoys researching his family tree.
Mr Steve White Associate Director Control Risks Group	For ten years, Steven has advised clients on a wide range of fraud and risk-related issues.  With strong forensic accounting and investigation skills, he has been involved in numerous investigations involving sums at risk in excess of £100 million. Steven qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1990 and spent two years with the West Yorkshire Police Fraud Squad as their Principal Accountant.  In this role he was responsible for providing accounting and general business experience to a number of investigations. He played an integral part in the development of a major police fraud prevention campaign, the first of its kind in the United Kingdom, and was also involved in other serious criminal investigations including arson, drug dealing, kidnapping and murder. Between 1992 and 1996, Steven held positions in the Forensic Accounting departments of two of the “Big Five” firms of accountants, helping to establish this new client service.  Steven regularly lectures to commercial organisations, accounting departments and police squads on the prevention, detection and investigation of fraud, and general fraud risk management issues.  He holds an honours degree and is an Associate Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
Mr Simon Gunning Director Digilog UK LTD	DigiLog UK is a provider of Voice Stress Analysis, Risk Assessment Tools for financial institutes, call centres and investigators. Simon is an expert in the internet sector and e-commerce related issues.
MS Rosalind Wright Director Serious Fraud Office
Rowan Bosworth-Davies Consultant Control Risk Group	Rowan Bosworth-Davies, was a legal consultant and a former Fraud Squad detective at New Scotland Yard, running the investigations division of one of the UK's financial Self Regulating Organisations for two years. He subsequently spent ten years consulting to leading law firms in the City of London as a Criminal Justice Consultant. An academic with Honorary Research Fellowships at Exeter University, Westminster University, and the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, he provides regular lectures to students on white-collar crime issues at UK Universities and law enforcement training centres. A Master of Arts of Exeter University, he has over 25 years practical and theoretical experience of the investigation and prosecution of fraud and white-collar crime. He is the joint author of the book, 'Money Laundering - A Practical Guide To The New Legislation', and has provided training on the subject to banks, financial institutions, lawyers, accountants, and law enforcement agencies, in many countries. He is a regular contributor to 'Money Laundering Bulletin', and 'Fraud Intelligence' and was the former editor of the Financial Times Fraud Report. He has most recently developed the production of Operational Risk Manager and consults organisations widely. He has also provided training and compliance programmes for the Bank of England, the U.K. National Criminal Intelligence Service, the National Police Staff College, Bramshill; as well as providing consultancy to the Money Laundering Steering Group of the British Bankers' Association.

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