Professor Nikos Passas

Independent Director

Nikos Passas is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University, Visiting Professor at the Basel Institute on Governance, Visiting Professor at Vienna University of Applied Sciences for Management & Communications Center for Corporate Governance & Business Ethics; Distinguished Visiting Professor at Beijing Normal University; Professor, Distinguished Practitioner in Financial Integrity and Senior Fellow of the Financial Integrity Institute at Case Western Reserve Law School and Chair of the Academic Council of the Anti-Corruption Academy in India. He serves on the Advisory Board of the Global Risk Profile in Geneva. He served as Team Leader for a European Union Commission project on financial vigilance and effective implementation of sanctions against proliferation and WMD finance. For 14 years, he served as editor-in-chief of the international journal Crime, Law and Social Change and is associate editor for a number of journals. He has published more than 220 articles, book chapters, reports and books in 14 languages. His current work focuses on Corruption, Human Rights, Trade-Based Financial Crime and Illicit Flows.