W. Michael Kramer is an attorney and consultant in the Washington, D.C. area, specializing in the investigation and civil prosecution of corporate fraud and corruption. Recently he has been involved primarily with cases involving fraud and corruption in international aid programs.

Mr. Kramer is a graduate of Princeton University and the Georgetown University Law Center, where he was an editor of the Law Review. He began his professional career as a Special Attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice in the Organized Crime and Racketeering Section, where he was assigned to the Unit that handled complex fraud and corruption cases. While stationed in the Washington, D.C. and San Francisco field offices, he conducted numerous grand jury investigations and tried a series of major fraud and corruption cases involving organized crime.

After a brief stint in the Washington, D.C. office of a large New York City law firm, where he conducted internal corporate investigations and anti-trust litigation, he started his own practice in 1984.

Mr. Kramer is an advisory member of the Board of Regents of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, and was a contributing author to the Fraud Examiners Manual. He lectures frequently at ACFE seminars and to other professional groups on fraud and white-collar crime. He has also published a text and CD-ROM self-study program on Contract and Procurement Fraud, and numerous articles on fraud topics, including a column, "Fraud's Finer Points," in the Association's journal, Fraud Magazine.