World-Check’s fifth annual Compliance Leadership Forum brought together leading professionals to discuss common compliance concerns and emerging challenges. Some 30 delegates enjoyed the round table event at Brocket Hall, situated in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom.

Guest speakers from diverse backgrounds delivered thought-provoking speeches on topical issues. The speakers included  Edward Garnier QC, Shadow Attorney General in the UK; Rear Admiral Chris Parry, Chair of the Marine Management Organization, Fellow of the International Institute of Strategic Studies and former Director General of development, concepts and doctrine at the Ministry of Defense, UK; Neil Jensen, former CEO of AUSTRAC, founding member of the Egmont Financial Intelligence Units and Head of the delegation to the Asia/pacific Group on Money Laundering; Mark Huband, Managing Director Livingstone & Company, journalist, author and former foreign correspondent for the Guardian, the Observer, the Times and the Financial Times; and David Thomas, Head of the UK Financial Intelligence Unit, Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA). 

Rear Admiral Chris Parry

• Chair of the Marine Management Organisation
• Fellow of the International Institute of Strategic Studies
• Former Director General of Development, Concepts and Doctrine at the Ministry of Defence, UK

Chris Parry spent 35 years in the Royal Navy as a Seaman and as a Fleet Air Arm officer during which he commanded HMS GLOUCESTER, the Maritime Warfare Centre and HMS FEARLESS. Along with regular operational tours in Northern Ireland, the Gulf and the Falklands, he was mentioned in despatches during the Falklands War and received the 1983 Prince Philip Helicopter Rescue Award from the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators. From 2001, as a Commodore, he was Director Operational Capability in the Ministry of Defence and then, from 2003-5, commanded the UK’s Amphibious Task Group. As a Rear Admiral from 2005, he formed the Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre (DCDC) and spent 3 years as its Director General. Here, he led and supervised the complete revision of all Armed Forces’ thinking and operation practices to reflect modern and emerging strategic conditions. In the Ministry of Defence and in the academic world, he has written extensively on strategic, policy and transformational issues and contributed to all Defence options, cost studies and reviews since 1989. Nowadays, as well as being Chair of the UK’s Marine Management Organisation, he works as a nonexecutive director, consultant, writer and lecturer, specialising in briefing major institutions, leading companies and banks about strategic forecasting, leadership and risk, as well as on security and geopolitical themes. He is a Fellow of the Royal United Services Institute, the International Institute for Strategic Studies and the Chartered Management Institute and is a member of the Institute of Directors and the policy board of the Oxford Research Group. He is also President of a Rugby League team.


David Thomas

• Head of UK FIU: Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA)

David is the Head of the UK Financial Intelligence Unit within the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA). David began his involvement in the criminal investigation of money launderers in 1997 within UK Customs, leading a team that brought the UK’s first ‘stand-alone’ money laundering prosecutions, namely those where a predicate offence was not identified. Those cases established much of the practice that governs the prosecution environment today. In 2000 he set up and led the first joint HM Customs and National Crime Squad anti-money laundering team leading to convictions of launderers, drug traffickers and fraudsters and the recovery of millions of pounds of criminal assets. In 2004 he moved to the National Criminal Intelligence Service and expanded its financial intelligence capacity and delivery of tactical and strategic assessments on complex money laundering activities. In 2006 he joined SOCA as Head of the UK FIU and was part of Sir Stephen Lander’s Review team that published the blueprint for a much improved SARs regime in the UK. Currently, he is also leading the FATF project ‘Global Threat Assessment of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing’

Mark Huband

• Managing director Livingstone & Company
• Journalist and author
• Former foreign correspondent for The Guardian, The Observer,The Times and The Financial Times
• Former Security Correspondent for the Financial Times

Mark Huband is a journalist, author and business intelligence executive with first-hand experience of researching and reporting on many of the major political, economic and business trends of the past twenty years. Formerly a correspondent in sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East for the Financial Times and the Guardian, he is the author of seven books on these regions. In the wake of 9/11 he oversaw the Financial Times’ coverage of terrorism, intelligence and security issues, before joining Hakluyt & Company as an executive. In 2008 he co-founded the business intelligence firm Livingstone & Company as managing director.


Edward Garnier QC MP

• Member of Parliament for Harborough
• Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Harborough
• Shadow Attorney General

Edward was born in 1952. He was educated at Wellington College, Berkshire, Jesus College Oxford (Modern History) and the College of Law, London. He is married to Anna and they have a daughter and two sons. He was appointed Queen’s Counsel in April 1995, a Crown Court Recorder in 1998 and a Bencher of the Middle Temple in 2001. Edward has been Member of Parliament for Harborough since April 1992. He was the Hon Secretary of the Foreign Affairs Forum 1988-92, and has been a Vice-Chairman since 1992. He was Secretary of the Conservative House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee from 1992-94 and a member of the Home Affairs Select Committee between 1992 and 1995. He was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Rt Hon Alastair Goodlad MP and David Davis MP, Ministers of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 1994-95. In October 1995 Edward was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Rt Hon Sir Nicholas Lyell QC MP, Attorney General and PPS to Sir Derek Spencer QC MP, Solicitor General and PPS to the Rt Hon Roger Freeman MP, and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in November 1996. He was the Opposition Front Bench Spokesman for the Lord Chancellor’s Department from 1997 to June 1999. He was a Visiting Parliamentary Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford, from 1996-97. From June 1999 to September 2001, he was Shadow Attorney General. In May 2005, he was appointed as a Shadow Minister for Home Affairs. In July 2007, he was appointed as a Shadow Minister for Justice and in September 2009 was appointed Shadow Attorney General.

Neil Jensen

• The retired former CEO of AUSTRAC
• Founding member of Egmont FIU’s
• Head of delegation to the Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering

Mr Jensen has extensive experience in the anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing field:
• with 20 years experience at AUSTRAC, Australia’s financial intelligence unit (FIU) and AML/CTF regulator, he is the longest serving member of an administrative FIU in the world
• as Chief Executive Officer of AUSTRAC for over 7 years, he provided governance, leadership and innovation for one of the world’s leading FIUs
• in providing financial intelligence training and support to Australia’s law enforcement, national security and revenue agencies and to numerous overseas representatives in law enforcement agencies and FIUs
• as a founding member of the Egmont Group of financial intelligence units, and most recently as the immediate past Chair of the Egmont Committee, Vice-Chair for six years, Chair of the Training Working group for four years, Vice-Chair of the Operational Working Group for two years, and Chair of the Oceania regional group for two years
• as a member of the Australian delegation to the Financial Action Task Force on money laundering since its inception, and as a member of a FATF mutual Evaluation team
• as Head of Delegation to the Asia Pacific Group on money laundering and as member of the Australian delegation for more than 12 years
• in having articles published on AML/CTF issues and having provided numerous interviews for domestic and global AML/CTF magazines and media generally.

In addition, Mr Jensen:
• has nearly 14 years in investigation of restrictive trade practices
• has 39 years in Australian public service
• is an Adjunct Research Fellow, in the Department of Business Law and Taxation, at Monash University, in Melbourne, Australia.

Honours:
• Australian Public Service Medal – Awarded to Mr Jensen for his contribution to Australia’s anti-money laundering program, by proposing and implementing the reporting to AUSTRAC of all customer based international wire transfers by reporting entities in Australia, leading to AUSTRAC’s global standing as an FIU.