{"id":19069,"date":"2013-11-05T13:30:55","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T13:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcrime.it\/staff\/michele-riccardi\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T12:34:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T10:34:39","slug":"michele-riccardi","status":"publish","type":"staff","link":"https:\/\/www.transcrime.it\/en\/staff\/michele-riccardi\/","title":{"rendered":"Michele Riccardi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Michele Riccardi<\/strong> is Director of Transcrime since October 2026 and Associate Professor at the Universit\u00e0 Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. Previously, he was Deputy Director of the Centre from 2020. He is also Adjunct Professor at the University of Palermo. His research focuses mainly on money laundering, financial crime and the economic aspects of organised 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 a 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 a member of the UN working group on the measurement of illicit financial flows (SDG 16.4). He has been involved by FATF\/GAFI and the World Bank in AML evaluation and review activities. He is also a member of the working group on investigative journalism of the Order of Journalists (Lombardy region). He holds a PhD in Criminology from the Universit\u00e0 Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, an MSc in Accounting and Financial Economics (with Distinction) at the University of Essex (UK) and a MA in International Relations (Cum Laude) at the Universit\u00e0 Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Italy). He is co-founder of Crime&amp;tech, a spin-off company of Transcrime-Universit\u00e0 Cattolica.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michele Riccardi is Director of Transcrime since October 2026 and Associate Professor at the Universit\u00e0 Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. Previously, he was Deputy Director of the Centre from 2020. He is also Adjunct Professor at the University of Palermo. His research focuses mainly on money laundering, financial crime and the economic aspects of organised crime. 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