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	Giovanni Kessler Director-General, European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) European Union Italian magistrate Giovanni Kessler was appointed Director-General of OLAF in December 2010. His varied career includes experience as a Public Prosecutor, serving in international missions, and as an elected member of the Italian national parliament. He was Public Prosecutor at the criminal courts of Trento, Bolzano and at the Anti-Mafia Department in Sicily from 1986 until 1998, dealing with organized crime, corruption and financial crimes. From 1998 to 1999, Kessler was the Deputy Head in charge of Police and Justice at the OSCE Kosovo Verification Mission in Pristina. As a judicial expert he participated in several European Commission and Council of Europe evaluation missions in Eastern Europe. In 2006, he was appointed by the Italian government as High Commissioner to Combat Counterfeiting and Piracy, where he served for two years. He served in the Italian Parliament from 2001 until 2006. He authored bills on the International Criminal Court, the European Convention against corruption, the International Judiciary Cooperation and on the European Arrest Warrant. At the same time, he was a member of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly and Vice-President from 2003. In 2008, he was elected member, and then President, of the legislative Assembly of the Autonomous Province of Trento, and in 2010 he was also the President of the Conference of European Regional Legislative Assemblies (CALRE).
	Max-Peter Ratzel Founder, RatzelConsulting Germany Max-Peter Ratzel is the founder and owner of RatzelConsulting. Before establishing his company in 2010, Max-Peter was a police officer for 34 years. From 2005 and 2009, he held the position of Director of Europol, the European Police Office, where he managed a staff of more than 600 personnel and had direct cooperation with Ministers, Ministries, Chief of Police in the 27 member states plus 25 third partners. During his years of duty at the German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) and as Director of Europol, he accumulated practical experience as well as expertise in cooperation with politics and with private partners.
	Ian Foxley Chairman, Whistleblowers UK United Kingdom Ian Foxley is the co-founder of Whistleblowers UK, an organisation providing psychological and practical support to workers who come forward with serious allegations of fraud. In 2011, as project manager providing communications work for the Saudi National Guard, Ian Foxley blew the whistle on a corruption scheme involving GPT, a subsidiary of European defence contractor EADS, and the UK Ministry of Defence. In response to allegations of bribery, the UK’s Serious Fraud Office has launched a formal investigation that is still ongoing. Foxley is a retired Lieutanent Colonel with the British Army, a chartered engineer and a member of the Institute of Management. His technical qualifications include a BSc Hons in Applied Science and Fellowship from the Institute of Electrical Engineers. In addition to his charity work for the Make-A-Wish Foundation and a school in Nepal, Foxley is a qualified rugby coach and referee and is the author of two books, Educating Daddy and God's Quartermaster. His latest book, The Devil’s Excrement, describing his whistleblowing experience in Saudi Arabia, is currently under the pen.
	Alan Bryce Head of Counter Fraud, Audit Commission United Kingdom Alan Bryce is the Head of Counter Fraud at the Audit Commission with specific responsibility for developing the organisation’s strategic approach to the wider anti-fraud agenda. Bryce is one of the principal author’s of the Commission’s national publication Protecting the Public Purse - Fighting Fraud in Local Govenment. He is the development lead for the Commission’s Changing Organisational Cultures toolkit, which has received national recognition. Bryce's work includes identifying and developing good practice in managing the risk of fraud in the public sector. He has contributed to the development of the British Standards Institute on whistleblowing and bribery through membership of the review teams for both standards. In addition to his Audit Commission responsibilities, Bryce is also currently working on a part-time secondment basis with the National Fraud Authority, supporting delivery of local government counter fraud activities. Bryce has previously been the manager responsible for external audit delivery at a number of local government, health, police and pension fund authorities. Bryce is a Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) qualified accountant, and CIPFA Investigative Practice accredited. Before joining the Audit Commission he was a police officer in Glasgow.
	James D. Ratley, CFE President and CEO, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners United States James D. Ratley graduated from the University of Texas at Dallas with a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration. In 1971, he joined the Dallas Police Department as a police officer. He was a member of numerous department task forces that concentrated on major fraud cases. In 1986, Ratley left the police department to join Wells & Associates, where he was in charge of fraud investigations. He handled investigations regarding internal frauds, conflicts of interest and litigation support. In 1988, he was named Program Director for the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) and oversaw all aspects of the ACFE's training and education programs. In 2005, Ratley was awarded the ACFE's highest honour, the Cressey Award. He was named President of the ACFE in 2006 and continues to hold the title. Ratley has been selected as one of Security magazine's "Most Influential Security Executives for 2010" and Accounting Today's "Top 100 Most Influential People."

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	Rainer Bührer, CFE Head of Compliance Investigations, Siemens AG Germany After specialising in financial crime and corruption-related investigations in the Commercial Branch of the South African Police Service, Rainer Bührer was posted to the Economic Crime Branch of Interpol, and in 1997, he initiated Interpol’s current anti-corruption program. In 2001, Bührer was appointed as the Assistant Director of Financial and Hi-Tech Crime within the Executive Directorate of the Interpol General Secretariat. He led a team that developed and implemented an organizational internal audit, management control and performance measurement program before transferring to the Office of the Special Representative of Interpol to the United Nations to assist in developing Interpol’s cooperation with the United Nations. He then assumed responsibility for the mandate to expand Interpol’s anti-corruption program and was instrumental in the creation of the International Anti-Corruption Academy based in Vienna, Austria. In February 2008, Bührer joined Siemens at the Corporate Head Office in Munich to create a new Compliance Investigation Office with a mandate to conduct compliance investigations globally.
	Dan Dunford Director of Security Projects, Attachmate United Kingdom Dan Dunford is a recognized expert with more than 10 years of experience in enterprise security. Dunford’s expertise in helping companies discover and mitigate fraud has assisted Global 2000 organizations, banks, governments and healthcare institutions meet the modern day challenges of security, audit and compliance. His writing has been published in several magazines, he is frequently called on to provide quotes and insight to the media when fraud occurs, and is a regular contributor to the Insider Fraud Spotlight blog.
	Michael Harris Senior Account Director, Enhanced Due Diligence, Thomson Reuters United Kingdom Michael Harris heads up the EMEA region for Enhanced Due Diligence within the Governance, Risk and Compliance division of Thomson Reuters. He specialises in bespoke enhanced due diligence solutions, corporate investigation, and anti-bribery and corruption programmes as well as other areas of sanctions, political exposure and international criminality. Taking a risk-based approach, he provides business intelligence to assist clients in risk management and compliance programmes for the UK Bribery Act, FCPA and other international ABC law and regulation.
	Dr. Stephen Hill, Ph.D., CIIP, MLIP Snowdrop Consulting Ltd United Kingdom Dr. Stephen Hill specialises in e-crime and fraud awareness, and has more than 12 years of experience in focusing on counter fraud, cyber fraud, not-for-profit fraud, and risk management. He is a certified practitioner (CIIP) for IS027001, and has worked on a number of guides to fraud detection, data security and prevention for many small to medium enterprises (SMEs) and charities. He is a Trustee Director of the Fraud Advisory Panel and chairs their Cybercrime Working Group with colleagues from the public, private, and third sectors. In addition to developing a series of fraud prevention, data security, e-fraud, and Internet investigations and OSINT courses, Hill published Corporate Fraud: Prevention & Detection, a book with practical advice on all aspects of fraud and how to prevent it, with the royalties going to the charity Victim Support.
	Daniel Kline Managing Director, EMEA, NAVEX Global United Kingdom Daniel Kline brings more than 14 years of experience in management consulting and business development in helping global organizations establish and evolve their compliance, ethics and risk management architecture. Previously, he served as managing director of CMS Cameron McKenna, Europe’s largest law and tax firm, and at LRN, a leading online training company. While at LRN, he consulted with leading companies on how to best establish and evolve their ethics and compliance programmes – drafting policies, conducting risk assessments, designing internal communication strategies, setting up whistleblowing systems, and designing and delivering training across a wide range of risk areas globally. A Fulbright Scholar, Kline spent time in Buenos Aires developing a new social and economic policy aimed at supporting Argentina’s indigenous populations.
	Leah Lane, CFE, CFS Global Investigations Manager, Texas Instruments United States With more than 20 years of combined public- and private-sector investigations and fraud examination experience, Leah Lane has managed, worked and assisted in hundreds of investigations globally, involving allegations of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations, internal and external fraud, and employee misconduct. She began her investigative career as a special agent in the U.S. Customs Service, a position she held for more than seven years. Lane is currently the Global Investigations Manager at Texas Instruments, where she manages a group of investigators with global responsibility for investigations within the company. She is also responsible for fraud awareness campaigns.
	Sherman R. McGrew, J.D., CFE Program Analyst, TSA Netherlands Sherman R. McGrew entered military service as a Reservist in 1979, retiring as a U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel in 2010. He is a graduate of Army Command and General Staff College and has had three active duty deployments, working extensively with the UK Military and UK Civilian Police Contingent in Basra, Iraq. McGrew retired as a Captain with the Waterbury Police Department in 2009, having also served as a Patrolman, Detective, Sergeant and Lieutenant. He has conducted thousands of interviews with suspects and has lectured on interview and interrogation to the police, military and international audiences. As a detective, he extensively investigated financial crimes, securing convictions while at all times respecting the rights of the accused. He holds a Bachelors Degree from the University of Connecticut, a Masters in Forensic Science from the University of New Haven and a Law Degree from The University of Connecticut, School of Law.
	Victoria Meyer, CFE, FCCA Director, Swiss International Business Academy Switzerland Victoria Meyer is a Director of the Swiss International Business Academy. She trained in the Forensic Services Department of KPMG London before moving on to coordinate the European Forensic Technology practice for PricewaterhouseCoopers. After more than a decade in Big-4 Forensic practices, Meyer now works mainly in the financial services sector and has worked with the UN, OFAC and other government agencies on a new format for anti-terrorism sanctions information. She began working with identity data on social security fraud investigations and has since used increasingly sophisticated linguistic matching techniques to support FCPA, insider trading and mortgage fraud investigations.
	Isabel Picornell, Ph.D., CFE QED Limited Channel Islands Isabel Picornell is Principal of QED Limited, based in Alderney in the British Channel Islands. She provides forensic linguistic analysis services to business, intelligence and investigative companies, and she specialises in authorship comparison and deception analysis in written texts. Prior to establishing QED in 2001, Picornell spent nine years working for UK Local Government, including six years as a Magistrate. She is a Certified Fraud Examiner, holds a doctorate in Forensic Linguistics from Aston University (UK), and is well known in forensic linguistic circles for her studies on deception in witness statements. Picornell is also an expert witness and has been knighted by the King of Spain for services to that country.
	Pauline Roberts Special Agent (Retired), FBI United States/Bulgaria Pauline Roberts started her career in the radio and TV news business in Ohio as an investigative reporter and then news bureau director. She was recruited into the FBI, handling a variety of complex cases including counterterrorism, money laundering, undercover operations, and criminal forfeitures, obtaining convictions in organized crime, corruption of public officials, theft rings, art fraud, financial institution fraud, Medicare patient brokering, cybercrime, and violent crime cases. After more than twenty years, she opted for foreign assignments with the FBI, serving briefly in India and then five years in the Balkans, where she lives now in retirement. Former Special Agent Roberts brings to her presentations expertise on what you can expect and the options you have when you are faced with a case involving perpetrators in a foreign country, as well as the ins and outs of obtaining evidence through foreign counterparts, and recovering losses and assets abroad.
	Joern Weber, CFE corma GmbH Germany Experienced investigator Joern Weber founded corma GmbH in 1999 and provides professional investigations, research and data analytics services to companies in Europe and the United States. Weber responds to different customer challenges and supports corporate security departments in successfully managing their investigative work. Prior to corma, Weber advanced through the ranks to Chief Inspector/Investigator in German law enforcement.

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