Shaun McLeary

Shaun McLeary is a Senior Fellow for the Global Center, working on anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) and criminal justice and the rule of law programming. For 37 years he served with the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) as a detective investigating serious and organized crime, and as a financial investigator. In 2005 Shaun joined the National Terrorist Financial Investigation Unit at New Scotland Yard, where he was responsible for financial investigations in support of all major counterterrorism investigations in the UK. He was later posted to Pakistan as the Police Counter-Terrorism and -Extremism Liaison Officer, followed by a secondment to the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office during which he delivered terrorism financing investigation training to Gulf State government officials. Following his retirement from the MPS in 2012, Shaun founded Dorwood Consultancy Ltd., where he has designed and delivered AML/CFT trainings for law enforcement, intelligence agencies, and prosecutors from 37 countries on behalf of national governments and the UN.