Workshop Dates:

7-18 December 2026 - London - £4,750

This two-week programme combines:

• Combatting Fraud, Corruption and Unethical Behaviour: Prevention, deterrence and detection - 5days
• Combatting Fraud, Corruption and Unethical Behaviour: Investigation, prosecution and sanctions - 5 days

Workshop Overview:

Large organisations, whether in the public or private sector may deliver their services within widely differing contexts but everywhere they face a similar challenge in maintaining integrity of their systems and ethical standards of their people at all levels.  From ‘quiet corruption’ which damages public trust and service delivery, through to ‘grand corruption’ which distorts a country’s economy, there is a need to develop effective tools to tackle these problems and protect against threats that come at any time, from anywhere around the world. Increasingly it is recognised that anti-corruption efforts need to cut across institutions and indeed nation states and address the full chain of activities including:

• Prevention through enhanced legislation, increased accountability and effective deterrence mechanisms
• Detection through regular monitoring and oversight activities
• Investigation of corrupt acts and unethical behaviour
• Prosecution of abuses of office, economic crime and money laundering
• Sanction through judicial and/or administrative means.

These two one-week courses are designed as a logical progression from prevention through investigation to sanction, but you may choose to attend either or both weeks, depending on your specific areas of interest.  The main aims of the workshops are:

Who is this Workshop for?

• Parliamentarians
• Senior policy makers and managers
• Presidential or special advisers
• Board Members and Senior Executives
• Local government officials
• Vigilance officers and anti-corruption commission staff
• Investigators
• Risk managers
• People responsible for detecting and prosecuting financial and cyber security crimes
• Representatives from civil society organisations

All those with responsibility for or a special interest in ethics, anti-corruption and good governance.

You will be encouraged to produce a personal development plan to use learnings to address the challenges faced within your own workplace.

Workshop Objectives: 

On completion, you will be able to:

• Know how to establish, embed, communicate and uphold core values in your  organisation

• Identify areas of risk and how these are changing over time
• Develop the legal infrastructure necessary to reduce opportunities for misconduct
• Analyse systems for dealing with conflicts of interest
• Know how to create the environment within which transparency and accountability can more readily be improved
• Understand mechanisms for detecting corruption and unethical behaviour
• Explain how advances in Artificial Intelligence has created opportunities which raise new challenges
• Review how different investigations are managed
• Consider the role of prosecutions and how to improve their effectiveness
• Explore options for cross-institution and international working

Key Topics

• Core values and the methods by which they can inform behaviour
• Identifying and resolving conflicts of interest
• International initiatives, including the work of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF)
• Anti Money Laundering approaches
• The particular challenges created by cybercrime and cyber-enabled crime
• tructures, systems, legal and administrative procedures to prevent wrongdoing
• Red flags and high-risk areas
• Systems to detect and report wrongdoing
• Key issues in handling sensitive and complex investigations
• Steps to increase the likelihood of successful prosecutions
• Developing and implementing