Rohan Clarke

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Dr Rohan Clarke is a Jamaican diplomat and international consultant on illicit finance. He received his Ph.D. from Jesus College, University of Cambridge, as a Commonwealth (Cambridge) Scholar. His doctoral manuscript is to be published in 2022 in Routledge’s Law of Financial Crimes book series, under the title Illicit finance and the law in the Commonwealth Caribbean: The myth of Paradise. Supervised by Professor Barry Rider, OBE, and advised by Professor Jason Sharman, at Cambridge, he drew on journalistic exposés such as the Paradise and Panama Papers scandals to critically unpack the unfair treatment of small States and offshore financial centres in the transnational legal, regulatory and policy discourses on anti-money laundering, anticorruption, combatting the financing of terrorism and tax evasion.

Dr Clarke is a member of the organising Secretariat of the Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime, which provides a unique forum for intelligence and law enforcements officials, lawyers, judges, regulators  and  the international banking community to discuss meaningful responses to the threats posed by economically motivated crimes. In addition to regularly speaking at the Symposium, he has been an invited guest speaker at other major international conferences including the Caribbean Central Bank’s Conference of Corruption, Cybercrime and Compliance.

He sits on the National Anti-Money Laundering Committee (NAMLAC) in Jamaica. Dr. Clarke has consulted for Palladium Group UK (Anti-Corruption and Illicit Finance Practice) and the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime in Geneva.

Dr Clarke is a Lord Denning Scholar at the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn, where he intends to be called to the Bar of England and Wales.

He also holds a Bachelor of Science in International Relations and Political Science (1st Class Hons.), from the University of the West Indies; a Bachelor of Laws (Hons.) from Nottingham Law School in the UK, and a Master of International Law & Politics (1st Class Hons.), from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand where he was a Commonwealth Scholar.