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Duncan Smith (Deputy Head of Investigations, European Investment Bank)

Duncan’s talk will discuss the various deterrence, prevention and detection methods that international organisations can use to minimise fraud, corruption and other negative conduct (collusion, coercion or money laundering etc.) from affecting their work.

Duncan Smith is Deputy Head of Investigations at the European Investment Bank (EIB), Luxembourg. Duncan is a qualified barrister and prosecuted corporate fraud and corruption offences for the Department of Trade and Industry and SFO. In 2000, he joined the World Bank’s Investigation Unit. In 2007, he moved to EIB to address policy, training, outreach, prevention and deterrence issues. He is co-author of the IFI Anti-Corruption Task Force’s Uniform Framework Agreement (2006) and author of the recently published book: Promoting Integrity in the Work of International Organisations: Minimising Fraud and Corruption in Projects (Springer 2021) https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030739157