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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 Universit\u00e0 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 Universit\u00e0 Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Italy). 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