Michele Riccardi

Michele Riccardi is Deputy Director at Transcrime and Associate Professor at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. He is also Adjunct Professor at the University of Palermo. His research focuses mainly on organised crime, money laundering, financial crime. In this domain, he has coordinated or contributed to numerous research projects, at national and international level (including Horizon Europe, Horizon 2020, and ISF projects), and has authored numerous publications. He is member of the Europol SOCTA Academic advisory board, of the Experts group of the EU Supranational money laundering risk assessment (SNRA) and of the Italian National ML risk assessment (NRA). He is member of the UN working group in the measurement of illicit financial flows (SDG 16.4). He has been consulted by FATF/GAFI and World Bank on money laundering and risk assessment initiatives. He is also a member of the Advisory board on investigative journalism of the Italian journalism association (Lombardy region). He holds a PhD in Criminology from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, a MSc in Accounting and Financial Economics (with Distinction) at the University of Essex (UK) and a MA in International Relations (Cum Laude) at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Italy). He is co-founder of Crime&tech, the spin-off of Transcrime-Università Cattolica.