Mr. David Cafferty
Regional Director Middle East, International Compliance Association

David Cafferty has over 20 years experience in the fields of accounting, corporate governance, financial crime, compliance, and anti-money laundering. A UK police-trained financial investigator and fraud examiner, he is also a Chartered Management Accountant and a Certified Fraud Examiner.

A Forensic Accountant by profession, David is a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountant’s (CIMA), Technical Advisory Group (specialising in financial crime and money laundering); a member of the UK Consultative Committee of Accounting Bodies (CCAB) Money Laundering Working Group; a member of the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists, a member of the Institute of Money Laundering Prevention Officers; a Trustee of the World Association of Compliance; a member of the International Compliance Association; a member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners; a member of the Institute of Internal Auditors; and a member of the UK Fraud Advisory Panel. He is also a member of the European Corporate Governance Institute and is registered as an “expert” with the Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

He is an international speaker on subjects relating to corporate governance, financial crime, compliance, and money laundering and a regular contributor to journals, magazines and newspapers on the same subjects. He has appeared on television in the UK and overseas as a subject matter specialist and has written a number of books in relation to Fraud Risk Management and Anti-Money Laundering, as well as developing a Fraud Risk Management Model which was recommended for use by the United Nations.

His professional activities includes 5 years with the third largest Fraud squad in the UK and a number of years acting as a trainer, investigator and consultant in the fields of corporate governance, financial crime, compliance, and money laundering.

Specialist assignments include criminal cases of serious or complicated frauds, while civil cases encompass matrimonial disputes, personal injury, taxation, commercial disputes, and insurance accounting in relation to claims for business interruption and increased costs of working as well as fidelity claims. Industry experience includes local and central government, law enforcement (in the UK and Overseas), professional bodies, oil and gas, communications, IT, energy, hospitality, manufacturing, construction, financial services, banking, leisure, and transport.

Assignments and speaking engagements have seen David working in many countries around the world and, for example, assignments in 2007 included visits to Zambia, Botswana, Lebanon, South Africa, Poland, UK, Malaya, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, UAE, and the Philippines.