Fireside Chat with Jeffrey Owens and Guest speaker David Lewis

Location: WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business) , Administration D3.2.234 on 28 October 2022 Starting at 12:30 Ending at 14:00
Type Discussion
LanguageEnglish
Speaker Jeffrey Owens and David Lewis
Organizer Research institute WU Global Tax Policy Center at the Institute for Austrian and International Tax Law
Contact tibor.kallay@wu.ac.at

"The need for new solutions to countering Illicit Financial Flows"

In this series of events, Prof. Jeffrey Owens and leading players in the field of tax policy discuss issues which are currently preoccupying governments, businesses and civil society. These FSCs enable a wide range of people to participate in these policy debates providing input from their various fields of interest.

David Lewis is a senior associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge, an honorary lecturer at Cardiff University, and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He is also a member of the Technical Advisory Group for the Global NPO Coalition, a member of the Advisory Board for Elucidate and he writes an occasional column for AML Intelligence.

From 2015 to January 2022 he was the Executive Secretary of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and senior advisor to G7 and G20 on anti-money laundering and counter terrorist financing. Before that David was Co-Chair of the FATF Evaluation and Compliance Group, and he worked for the UK Government as head of AML Policy and the Illicit Finance Unit at HM Treasury, and as a senior member of the Serious Organised Crime Agency (now the UK National Crime Agency). 
 



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