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Alan Bacarese is a Stream House Director and widely considered a leading international authority on trans-national bribery, corruption and asset recovery. A UK Barrister, Alan was a Senior Crown Prosecutor with the UK’s CPS until 2007 before helping to establish the International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) where he contributed significantly to the creation of its legal and case consultancy practice. During 2011-14 Alan worked as Special Counsel to Peters & Peters LLP in London and advised on complex corruption and money laundering cases for individuals and companies. After a period of time in 2014 acting as an EU advisor on Rule of Law reform in Montenegro, Alan is currently based in East Africa working with high level public officials on the investigation and prosecution of grand corruption cases. Alan also serves as an expert member of the Inter American Development Bank’s Sanctions Committee and has co-authored many books and technical papers on bribery and corruption, fraud, asset recovery and human rights.

Positions

• Justice Sector/Rule of Law Reform Advisor (EU/NICO Project) in Montenegro (February to November 2014)
• Special Counsel, Peters & Peters, LLP London, UK (2011-2014)
• Head of Legal and Case Consultancy, International Centre for Asset Recovery in Basel, Switzerland (2007-2011)
• Senior Policy Advisor, Crown Prosecution Service, London, UK (2001-2007)
• Senior Crown Prosecutor, Crown Prosecution Service, UK (1988 – 2001)
• Technical Advisor to the the Anti Corruption Bureau and DPP of an East African country on the investigation and prosecution of grand corruption cases (January 2015 to date)

Other Mandates

• Consultant to the UK government (Foreign and Commonwealth Office) on
  evaluations of a number of UK Overseas Territories in relation to
  international anti-corruption and AML standards (2013)
• Consultant to the UK government as Lead Examiner on the UNCAC Review Mechanism of Indonesia (2013)
• Consultant to Indufor/SGS in Madagascar working on the illegal extraction of ‘Bois de Rose’ and criminal justice reform (2014)
• Consultant to UNDP – Vietnam (2013)
• Macedonia – Open Society Justice Initiative (2013)
• Consultant to UK Department of International Development, Support to
  the Medicines and Health Service Delivery Monitoring Unit, Uganda, on
  corruption investigations (2012)
• GIZ – Yemen (2012)
• PCCB Tanzania – Prevention and Combating of Corruption Bureau and
  African Development Fund Institutional Support Project for Good
  Governance
• Asset Tracing and Recovery Training Programme (2012)

Publications

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