2024 Economic Crime Summit – Identity, Fraud, Security

Susan is Executive Director of Spotlight on Corruption, an anti-corruption charity that monitors the UK's enforcement of its anti-corruption laws. She is a policy expert who has worked on the UK's role in global corruption for over 20 years. She has a particular expertise in how the UK's anti-corruption enforcement landscape works in practice. Her recent work includes major co-authored reports on the state of senior executive accountability for economic crime in the UK, and on the UK's enforcement gap looking at resourcing issues in the agencies responsible for economic crime enforcement. She leads a team of experts who provide analysis of enforcement trends from monitoring court cases relating to corruption, and on how the UK is addressing its own domestic corruption and standards.

Margaret became the Labour Member of Parliament for Barking in June 1994. She has served in government, holding portfolios across education, work and pensions, business and culture. In 2010, Margaret also became the first elected Chair of the Public Accounts Committee and was also its first female Chair. Today, Margaret is the Chair of the APPG on Anti-Corruption and Responsible Tax, focussing on tackling economic crime and kleptocracy.

Matt is Head of Policing and Government at Clue, a UK based software company that provides a world leading Intelligence and Investigations Case Management capability to law enforcement, government, non-governmental organisations, corporates and sports integrity agencies globally. A former law enforcement leader, he served for 30 years in UK policing and national security roles, accomplishing the position of National Crime Agency Deputy Director - Investigations. He is expert in the domains of intelligence and investigations, with experience leading the most complex and high-risk operations at national level. Matt has worked with a wide range of UK and international law enforcement, national security and government partner organisations. Matt has extensive operational expertise in serious and organised crime; major crime; counter corruption, professional standards and security; cyber, fraud, money laundering and wider economic crime.

Abigail Howarth joined the SFO in January 2023 as Chief Operating Officer, after previously worked as Director of Operations at the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) between 2018 and 2023, and prior to that acted as the Assistant Director for Operations at the Disclosure and Barring Service, between 2014 and 2018. Abi now oversees all Operational Delivery, Investigating and Intelligence arms of the SFO. Abi has extensive experience of managing and improving the operational delivery of public sector organisations. Abi has overseen the streamlining and delivery of high-volume casework, raising performance standards and ensuring increased and effective compliance with necessary processes and procedures.

Steven Kay KC is Head of 9BR Chambers, Gray’s Inn, London and a leading international and UK criminal lawyer. He has a global reputation and has been in many of the landmark trials at the international courts and tribunals in The Hague that have established modern international criminal law. He advises and represents Governments, Heads of State, Civilians and Corporations on international situations and crises. In the case of President Kenyatta at the ICC, he produced a result that changed the shape of African politics. In his UK practice he specialises in fraud and corruption cases and is also the Chairman of Oculus Financial Intelligence Ltd. Steven is a Recorder of the Crown Court in England; a Vice Chair of the IBA Judges Forum; and a Founder of the European Criminal Bar Association.

Samantha Kight is the Head of Industry Security at the GSMA, driving the Security and Fraud direction of the GSMA and working with the industry to execute key initiatives within this space. She is integral in building and maintaining links between Chief Security Officers across the Mobile Network Operators, providing platforms for Telecommunication security to be discussed and represented globally. Prior to joining the GSMA she worked within a Mobile Network Operator Group and local market function. She has a diverse background having worked across the non-profit, corporate and association sectors and holds a Bachelors and Masters degree from the University of Technology, Sydney.

Sir Craig Mackey’s long police career culminated in a six-year tenure as Deputy Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service, from which he retired in 2018. His police career began in 1984 with Wiltshire Constabulary, from where he moved to Gloucestershire Constabulary as Assistant and subsequently Deputy Chief Constable and then on to Cumbria. As Chief Constable of Cumbria Police, he worked closely with the Civil Nuclear Constabulary and Sellafield Ltd. He joined the Civil Nuclear Police Authority board as an independent member in 2019 and also serves on the board of the British Transport Police. Sir Craig joined Cityforum as an Associate and is advising on policing and national security questions. His civil contingencies and resilience experience will be significant as our work in this area increases.

Michael Mainelli was elected as Lord Mayor of the City of London on 29 September 2023 and took office on 10 November 2023. He previously served Sheriff of the City of London from 2019-2021, being granted an extraordinary second year in that office, the first time since 1228, in order to provide continuity during the Covid-19 pandemic. Educated at Harvard University and Trinity College Dublin, Michael gained his PhD at London School of Economics where he was also a Visiting Professor. Originally a research scientist in aerospace (rocket science) and graphics in the USA and Switzerland, he created the first commercial digital maps of the world in Cambridge. He entered the City of London in 1984 ahead of Big Bang, becoming a partner in 1987 with BDO Binder Hamlyn, and in 1995 a Director of Ministry of Defence research. During a mergers & acquisitions spell in merchant banking with Deutsche Morgan Grenfell, he co-founded Z/Yen, the City of London’s leading think-tank, promoting societal advance through better finance and technology. Z/Yen is renowned for the Global Financial Centres Index, Global Green Finance Index, Long Finance, and numerous technology and finance projects. He has served as Alderman for Broad Street since 2013; President of Broad Street Ward Club; member of Lime Street and Farringdon Ward Clubs; Trustee of the Lord Mayor’s Appeal, Lord Mayor’s Show, Lord Mayor’s 800th Anniversary Awards Trust, and Morden College; Professor & Life Fellow of Gresham College and Fellow of Goodenough College; Honorary Fellow of King’s College London; Council Member for City & Guilds. Michael is non-executive director of an AIM-listed mining firm and the United Kingdom Accreditation Service overseeing UK laboratories and quality standards. Past posts have included Almoner of Christ’s Hospital, International Financial Advisor to the Taoiseach, and London Waterways Commissioner, as well as Trustee of the International Fund for Animal Welfare and Ocean Alliance. Michael is passionate about the Livery as a Past Master of the World Traders, Honorary Liveryman of the Worshipful Companies of Furniture Makers, Water Conservators, Marketors, and Tax Advisers, Craft-Owning Freeman of the Watermen & Lightermen, and member of the City Livery Club and Guild of Freemen. Michael works to maintain the City’s pre-eminence as the world’s leading professional, business, legal, technical, and financial services centre, championing the three C’s of Commerce, Community, and Charity. His wife, Elisabeth, is from Bavaria. Elisabeth trained in hotel management and has worked in Germany and London, where she became a personal assistant to the managing partner of a large accountancy firm. They married in 1996 and have three children. She continues to work at her events company and is a director of a property management company. Elisabeth is a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Masons and a Freeman Honoris Causa of the World Traders. As former Thames barge owners restoring SB Lady Daphne over two decades, they retain deep links with the sailing barge community and the venerable Thames Match (1863). Michael and Elisabeth chaired the Guildhall British Red Cross Christmas Market in 2017. Michael’s hobbies include skiing, woodcarving, diving, dicing with bagpipes, racing sailboats, and dabbling in German, Italian, and French, but even worse Mandarin. He has written over 60 journal articles, 250 business articles and a few books. His humorous novel, Clean Business Cuisine: Now and Z/Yen, written with Ian Harris, was a Sunday Times Book of the Week in 2000; Accountancy Age described it as “surprisingly funny considering it is written by a couple of accountants”. The Price of Fish: A New Approach to Wicked Economics and Better Decisions, also with Ian Harris, won the 2012 Independent Publisher Book Awards Finance, Investment & Economics Gold Prize.

Hugh Morris’s professional career spans over four decades. During that time, he has worked in IT and change consultancy, research and operational delivery roles. Hugh has also launched a number of start-up businesses, including a current role in a company detecting fake news and misinformation. Hugh has worked in a wide range of sectors from government to industrial & defence to financial services and utilities. Hugh holds a number of non-executive roles, notably in the not-for-profit sector. He has been published on a variety of subjects including the effect of the internet on the nation state, digital identity and the international competitiveness of financial centres.

Prior to joining the City of London Police (CoLP) in January 2022 as Assistant Commissioner, Pete was Assistant Chief Constable at Thames Valley Police (TVP) where he was the Southeast Regional Lead for Counterterrorism, and Serious and Organised Crime. Pete had performed this role since July 2019 after graduating from the Strategic Command Course in March 2019. In this role, Pete worked to the Chief Officer Management Boards across Thames Valley, Hampshire, Surrey, Sussex and Kent.

After graduating from the University of Nottingham with a degree in Mathematics and Computer Science, Pete started his career with the CoLP where he spent a number of years at different ranks as a detective working across volume, major and specialist crime. Pete went on to specialise in cyber and economic crime, and was, later in his service, seconded into the Metropolitan Police Service as the Head of Uniformed Operations at the London Borough of Newham.

In 2017, Pete returned to the CoLP as Detective Chief Superintendent, Head of Crime and Counterterrorism, and then went on to lead the CoLP’s Economic Crime Directorate that acts as the National Lead Force for fraud on behalf of UK policing. Throughout his career Pete has worked extensively across government and across sectors to significantly improve the local, regional and national response to cyber and economic crime. In 2018, Pete won the International Association of Chiefs of Police’s prestigious ‘40 under 40’ award for his work in this field.

Pete is also an experienced Gold Public Order Commander and Strategic Firearms Commander with multi-force experience, previously a Hostage and Crises Negotiator, and currently the national policing lead for Special Branch reform, Intellectual Property Crime, and Controlled Drugs Liaison Officers.

In October 2023, Pete took on the role of Temporary Commissioner of the City of London Police and is now the National Police Lead for Cyber and Economic Crime.

As Head of Engineering and AI for Palantir UK, Nic Prettejohn has led and overseen a range of transformational projects across the UK. Notably, these include the NHS COVID-19 vaccine and PPE distribution programme, as well as the UK government's "Homes for Ukraine" initiative, which to date has successfully resettled over 128,000 Ukrainian refugees in the UK. Additionally, Mr Prettejohn brings significant expertise from working with some of Europe’s largest financial and government institutions. Mr Prettejohn currently leads the delivery and adoption of Palantir’s Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP), working closely with customers helping them navigate the complexities and deploying AI-powered operational use cases and workflows. As part of a panel discussion at the Economic Crime Summit, Mr. Prettejohn will deliver a live demonstration of how Generative AI can be used to fight fraud and protect victims.

Matt is a Deputy Director at the Department for Business and Trade and was Senior Responsible Owner in the Department for the two Economic Crime Acts of 2022 and 2023. He has policy responsibility for core elements of UK company law, with a particular focus in recent years on reform of Companies House and related measures to tackle the misuse of corporate entities in economic crime.
He has been in this role since 2016, having previously spent seven years as a senior advisor at HM Treasury, majoring on tax, welfare and energy policy. From 2017 to 2023 he was also Chair of the UK Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative. Matt is a chartered accountant (FCA) and holds a degree from Oxford University.

Adrian Searle joined the National Crime Agency as Director, National Economic Crime Centre in March 2022. Adrian is a senior security and intelligence professional, with both government and private sector experience. He has worked in a range of operational and policy roles, and led the cross-government response to significant cyber incidents, as a Deputy Director in the National Cyber Security Centre. He joined the Agency from NatWest, where he was Group Head of Data and Security Risk. His current responsibilities include leading the multi-agency National Economic Crime Centre, which has a strategic system leadership role for economic crime and illicit finance.

Charlie’s professional life is bifurcated: he is working to make digital identities (re)usable in the UK as a senior policy advisor at DSIT, while also investigating the ethical, social, and political issues surrounding UK digital identity systems as a doctoral researcher at the University of Oxford. At DSIT, Charlie leads the development of the UK digital identity and attributes trust framework. He is responsible for creating effective ‘rules of the road’ for digital verification services, capable of balancing market needs with the Government’s priorities for the digital identity ecosystem.

Teresa Walsh is the Chief Intelligence Officer for FS-ISAC (Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Centre), overseeing a team of security and intelligence analysts in six countries. Based in London, she also is the Managing Director for the EMEA region, coordinating business strategy across multiple functions in the region. Prior to her almost 8 years at FS-ISAC, Teresa was an intelligence analyst at Citibank and JP Morgan for several years. She started her career with the US Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) over 20 years ago, with tours of duty in the Middle East and Southeast Asia. She has settled in the UK with her family (and cats).

Jim Winters has worked at Nationwide since January 2022 and has over 25 years’ experience in economic crime leadership. Prior to joining Nationwide, Jim was Fraud Managing Director at Barclays UK. Jim has held senior roles with TSB, Experian and Egg, the UK’s first Internet bank. As Director of Protect, Jim is responsible for protecting members and Nationwide from criminal activity.