Branislav Hock, PhD, Associate Professor in Economic Crime and Compliance and Research Lead of Economic Crime Group, University of Portsmouth.

Branislav is a passionate interdisciplinary researcher who thrives in both an academic environment and practice. With a rapidly developing international reputation for excellence in policy-oriented research, Dr Hock has played advisory roles both in the UK (Home Office, FCDO, Synectic Solutions, Crowe) and internationally (EU Commission, European Court of Auditors, OECD) in projects related to money laundering, anti-corruption, tax evasion and compliance. He is an author of Extraterritoriality and International Bribery: A Collective Action Perspective, Routledge 2020 and co-author of Economic Crime: From Conception to Response, Routledge 2022. Branislav has established an annual Winter Economic Crime Symposium and serves as the Co-Editor in Chief of Journal of Economic Criminology.