Anton Moiseienko is a Senior Lecturer and Research Director at the Australian National University Law School. His work focuses on financial crime, including money laundering, terrorist financing and proliferation financing, and the legal and policy aspects of economic sanctions.

He is the author of Doing Business with Criminals, a wide-ranging account of the objectives and history of financial crime rules forthcoming with Cambridge University Press, and Corruption and Targeted Sanctions, a monograph on the legal and policy implications of ‘Magnitsky’ laws published by Brill in 2019. He has also co-edited four books on transnational crime.

Anton's articles or essays have appeared in leading journals, including the American Journal of International Law, Criminal Law Review, European Journal of International Law, German Law Journal, International and Comparative Law Quarterly, Leiden Journal of International Law and Modern Law Review.

He was previously a Research Fellow at the Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), a UK defence and security think-tank. While at RUSI, he led major multi-year research projects that explored the impact of technology on financial crime, as well as illicit trade risks in free-trade zones. He also published on a wide array of subjects including beneficial ownership transparency; corruption and fraud in the UK; and the financial footprint of cybercrime, cyber-enabled fraud and online IP piracy.

He gave testimony to the Australian Senate's Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade; the UK House of Commons' International Trade Committee; Canada's Commission of Inquiry into Money Laundering in British Columbia; and the Legal Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. He also presented before multiple other UK agencies, including the Joint Money Laundering Intelligence Taskforce and the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Illicit Trade, as well as the EU's Freeze and Seize Task Force.

His consultancy experience includes advising the Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative, a joint programme of the World Bank and UN Office on Drugs and Crime, as well as consulting for government-funded and private-sector financial crime projects worldwide.

LLM (Cantab), PhD (QMUL)

Transnational crime, economic crime (especially corruption and money laundering), cybercrime, targeted sanctions.