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Nicolas GIANNAKOPOULOS

International Leading Specialist in anti-corruption, anti-MLA and anti-organized crime for over 25 years

PROFILE

Project-oriented and entrepreneur mindset
Recognized worldwide specialist on crime-related risk management and mitigation
Associated professor, lecturer and author in leading Universities in the world (US, UK, Switzerland, China, Mongolia, France, Italy, etc.)
Extensive network in the international institutions and NGOs on crime-related risk management.

EXPERTISE

Risk management
Due Diligence
International mitigation
Complexe cases analysis
Teaching and lecturing
Scientific research projects leading
Strategic thinking
Cyber-crime risk expert
Author
Asset recovery leading expert
High level negociation
Conferences and events

LANGUAGES

Fluent speaking and writing : French, English, Italian
Speaking : Spanish and Portuguese
Learning : Russian and Serbian

MEMBERSHIPS AND AWARDS

Founding member of ACADS
Member of the UNODC academic expert on crime
Member of LIBERA, EU association against organized crime
Receiver of the Medal of Merit of the Brazilian Magistrature for the Outstanding Efforts in Combatting Organized Crime in Latin America

CONTACT

Phone :

+41 79 536 0758

Email:

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CURRENT WORK EXPERIENCE

APEX FUSION FOUNDATION. – Zug (ZG) – CHAIRMAN – 2024

MILES SA is a company providing bespoke solutions for its APEX FUSION Foundation is a blockchain dedicated Foundation aimed at uniting Web 3.0 stakeholders and innovations around the world (https://foundation.apexfusion.org/).

MILES S.A. – Crans-Montana (VS) - FOUNDER – CHAIRMAN – 2018

MILES SA is a company providing bespoke solutions for its Clients in case of international mitigations and criminal risk related issues.

SWISS SAFE HARBOR SA – Geneva - FOUNDER – CHAIRMAN – 2020

Swiss Safe Harbor SA (SSH) is a swiss company dedicated to investments in gold, precious metals and commodities worldwide with trading activities in Singapore through its parent companies all fully registered and licensed.

ORGANIZED CRIME OBSERVATORY (OCO) – SWITZERLAND/BRASIL/US – CO-FOUNDER – PRESIDENT – 2001

The OCO is an association created in Geneva, Switzerland in 2001 aimed at the research, analysis, publishing and events on risks related to organized crime, money-laundering, corruption, traffickings and all other related criminal activities. The OCO has the ECOSOC observatory status at the United Nations Council of Human Rights and at the European Commission.

CH-COMMUNICATION SA – SWITZERLAND – CO-FOUNDER – CHAIRMAN – 2010

CH-COMMUNICATION SA is an ethical investment company co-founded by Nicolas Giannakopoulos and the Ergen family (US - EchoStar) for creating, managing and structuring ethical and respectful investments worldwide.

PAST WORK EXPERIENCE

ETHICS SA – SWITZERLAND - CO-FOUNDER – VICE-PRESIDENT – 2008-2012

ETHICS SA was a distributing the quality standard ETHICS for risk-management accredited by the International Board of Private Standardization ISAS.

STATE OF GENEVA – SWITZERLAND - EMPLOYEE – ANALYST – 2001-2007

Hired to manage risks in public tenders and closed state tenders applications for the Social and Economic Council of the Canton of Geneva then for the Cantonal Office for Unemployment (120 million CHF yearly budget).

FEDERAL DEPARTEMENT OF POLICE AND JUSTICE – SWITZERLAND – LEADING ANALYST AT THE FEDERAL POLICE CENTRAL OFFICE – 1996 - 2001

Under the direct supervision of the Swiss Ministry of Justice, Arnold Koller and the Chief of the Central Office for Organized Crime Michael Lauber (then Swiss Attorney General), the task was to provide a general assessment of the complex crime-related situations in Switzerland, define and assist in the MLA and anticorruption policy of Switzerland in the country and abroad, train and teach the specialized teams at the federal police and prosecutors offices, define and propose techniques, tools, processes, and assist in the new laws definitions and set-ups.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
INSTITUTE COMBATTING ECONOMIC CRIME (ILCE) – SWITZERLAND – ASSOCIATED PROFESSOR – 2009

The ILCE located in Neuchâtel is the leading professional school financed by the Swiss Confederation to deliver Master’s Degrees in Economic Crime analysis and mitigation. Responsible for the creation of all the exercise part of the academic cursus and teaching Criminal Structures.

LECTURES AND TEACHING IN OTHER UNIVERSITIES

Harvard, Yale and Northeastern University (US)
Beijing Normal University (BNU)
Faculty of Law at Ulaan Baatar University
University of Geneva, Global Studies Institute
Università Cattolica di Milano (Italy)
Università Cattolica di Brasilia (Brasil)

RESEARCH PROJECTS

Greek Debt and Criminal Risks (Northeastern Univ. Boston - US)
Afghan Narcotrafficking (East-West institute)
Countering Human Trafficking project (Univ. of Birmingham – UK)
African anticorruption frameworks (ROLACC – Qatar)
Organized Crime and Corruption in Switzerland (CH)

Nikos Passas is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University, where he served for a number of years as Co-Director of the Institute for Security and Public Policy. He is also Distinguished Visiting Professor at Beijing Normal University Law School, Distinguished Practitioner in Financial Integrity at Case Western Reserve Law School, and Chair of the Academic Council of the Anti-Corruption Academy in India. He serves on the Advisory Board of the Centre for Crime, Justice and Policing at the University of Birmingham, the Advisory Board of the Global Risk Profile in Geneva, the International Panel of Advisors at the Institute for Australia India Engagement in Brisbane and the Board of Directors of Compliance and Capacity Skills International in New York.

His law degree is from the Univ. of Athens (LL.B.), his Master’s from the University of Paris-Paris II (D.E.A.) and his Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh Faculty of Law. He is a member of the Athens Bar (Greece). He is fluent in 6 languages (English, Spanish, Greek, French, German, Italian) and plays classical guitar. He specializes in the study of international criminal law and conventions, corruption, illicit financial/trade flows, sanctions, informal fund transfers, remittances, terrorism, white-collar crime, financial regulation, organized crime and international crimes. He has published more than 240 articles, book chapters, reports and books in 15 languages.

Passas offers training to law enforcement, intelligence and private sector officials on regulatory and financial crime subjects. He regularly serves as expert witness in court cases or public hearings and consults with law firms, financial institutions, private security and consulting companies and various organizations, including the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), OECD, OSCE, the IMF, the World Bank, the Council of Europe, other multilateral and bilateral institutions, the United Nations (ODC, Development Programme, Security Council, etc.), the Caribbean FATF, the European Union, the US National Academy of Sciences, research institutions and government agencies in all continents. His work with UNODC includes the design and initiation of the legal library of UNCAC-related national texts and the design and content of the UNCAC review mechanism software and checklist.

He served as Team Leader for a European Union Commission project on the control of proliferation/WMD finance. His current projects focus on financial crisis, public debt and institutional corruption, the role of banks in cross-border corruption, anti-corruption authorities, assessment of anti-corruption practices, integrity and accountability, trade-facilitated financial crime, the regulation of remittance flows in cash-based societies, and on use of IT for the enhancement of due diligence conducted by financial institutions. He organized the launching and coordinated a global inter-disciplinary academic initiative on anti-corruption courses and materials, supported by Northeastern Univ., UNODC, OECD, and the International Bar Association to reach out to universities and educational institutions around the world. He has been co-Director of the Institute for Security and Public Policy at Northeastern, Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies and Law School, University of Birmingham, Visiting Professor at Vienna University of Applied Sciences for Management & Communication’s Center for Corporate Governance & Business Ethics, an INSPIRE Fellow at Tufts University’s Institute of Global Leadership, Consortium Member and Distinguished Inaugural Professor of Collective Action, Business Ethics and Compliance at the International Anti-Corruption Academy, Vienna, (where he helped launch and teach a global anticorruption MA degree and create a second MA degree on compliance and collective action), Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland, Visiting Professor at the Basel Institute on Governance and Corruption Program Director at the Ethics and Compliance Officer Association (ECOA).

His main current project revolves around international regulation and control of illicit financial and commercial flows, governance and anticorruption with a focus on COVID-19, quality of governance and serious crime. Starting in September 2020 Prof. Passas is leading a consortium for research and action against illicit and falsified medical products and supply chains with financial support from the US National Science Foundation (NSF), which has been extended for another 4 years. His other current projects include a WHO comparative study on anti-corruption in the health sector as well as a US study and training program on biorisk management and biological weapons controls in Africa.

Dr. Ety Elish, PhD in Criminology, senior lecturer in the Department of Criminology at the Max Stern Yezreel Valley College, Israel. In addition, I serve as a public representative on Parole Boards (appointment of the Ministry of Justice in Israel) and as an official auditor of the IPS (Israel Prison Service).
Most of my research focuses on the processes of changing and rehabilitating prisoners and criminals, primarily from a positive criminology perspective. Recently I have been researching, together with colleagues, criminal and ethical aspects in the field of public health.

Donato Castronuovo is Full Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Ferrara (Italy). Formerly, he has been PhD candidate and carried out research and teaching for three decades at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy). His preferred areas of research include the general theory of negligent crimes; rule of law and general clauses; constitutional principles and criminal law; complementary and corporate criminal law, with particular reference to workplace, environmental, food and product safety; medical professional responsibility; criminal liability of collective entities and corporations. He fluently speaks French and German and has conducted several research periods in many European institution, primarily at the Humboldt Universität in Berlin and at the Max-Planck-Institut für Strafrecht in Freiburg i.Br. (Germany). He has been visiting professor at several European universities, including Strasbourg, Paris X, Université de Corse, Université de Franche-Comté Besançon.

He has taken part to numerous research project at both national and European level and is member of the editorial board of several criminal law scientific reviews and book series; moreover, since 2016 he is member of the Board of Professors of the Doctorate in “EU law and national systems” at the University of Ferrara, where since November 2018 he is also Deputy Director of MacroCrimes - Center for European Legal Studies on Macro-Crime, funded by the Department of Excellence programme.