Dr Mary Alice Young
Research Assistant to the SMB Director and tutor on financial crime.
Signpost Mentor for the Centre for Widening Participation and Social Inclusion, Aberystwyth University
PhD
Contact
Email: mal06@aber.ac.uk
Office: F20 Cledwyn
Phone: +44 (0)1970 62 2154
Biography
Dr Mary Alice Young is an expert in financial crime whose specific research interests include offshore banking centres, money laundering, the proceeds of crime and banking confidentiality. Mary Alice is currently working as a Research Assistant to the Director of the School of Management and Business and also as a Signpost Mentor to undergraduate students. She will contribute to lectures on modern banking law and financial crime in the coming year.
Mary Alice gained her PhD in October 2011 from the Department of Law and Criminology and was offered a publishing contract by Routledge for her thesis on offshore financial centres and banking confidentiality. After completing her PhD she was awarded a research grant by the Aberystwyth University Research Fund for a project on money laundering and organised crime in Jamaica. While working as a Research Fellow in the Department of Law and Criminology, Mary Alice undertook a research placement at the University West of Indies, Kingston, Jamaica.
Since moving to the School of Management and Business in October 2012, Mary Alice has presented on offshore financial centres, at a high-level closed workshop for members of the Abu Dhabi police force. She continues to apply for grants to further her research into organised economic crime.
Additional Interests
WOSKSHOPS, CONFERENCES AND PLACEMENTS
2012 Closed workshop for members of the Abu Dhabi police force in coordination with the Serious Organised Crime Agency.
2007- 2010 Cambridge Symposium on Economic Crime, member of the Secretariat. Presentations in plenary workshops - on the implementation of financial intelligence units in least developed countries and alternative remittance systems in Lao PDR.
2010 Trade Based Money Laundering, Carlton Hotel, Amsterdam, (funded by the Ministry of Justice, Netherlands).
Staff Publications
BOOKS
2012 Banking Secrecy and Offshore Financial Centres: Money laundering and offshore banking, (Routledge, London, 2012).
PUBLICATIONS
2012/13 Book reviews for the Journal on Intelligence and National Security.
2012/13 'Dirty Money in Jamaica', West Indian Law Journal.
2011, Nigerian Organised Crime, Jane’s Intelligence Review.
2010, 'Sand Banks: Caribbean Islands Tackle Tax Evasion', Jane’s Intelligence Review.
2009, ‘Lao drug traffickers make runs to the border’, Jane’s Intelligence Review.
2008 Article on money laundering and banking secrecy for the Standing Group on Organised Crime newsletter, parented by the Standing Group on Organised Crime of the European Consortium on Political Research.
WORKS IN PROGRESS
The exploitation of offshore financial centres.
The consumption behaviour of criminals.
REPORTS
2009 Commissioned to write an extensive report for the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office on drug trafficking and road network expansion in the Greater Mekong Sub-region, SE Asia.