Anton Moiseienko

Anton Moiseienko is an Associate Professor of Law and Research Director at the Australian National University Law School. His main areas of expertise are 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 published by Cambridge University Press in 2025, and Corruption and Targeted Sanctions, a monograph on the legal and policy implications of ‘Magnitsky’ sanctions published by Brill in 2019. He has also co-edited four books on transnational crime, including the 35-chapter-long Research Handbook on Transnational Crime.

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

He gave testimony to Australia's Parliamentary Joint Committee on Law Enforcement; Australian Senate's Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade; UK House of Commons' International Trade Committee; Canada's Commission of Inquiry into Money Laundering in British Columbia (Cullen Commission); and Legal Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe – all of which adopted his recommendations. He also briefed multiple government agencies and policymakers internationally, including the UK's Joint Money Laundering Intelligence Taskforce, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Illicit Trade, as well as the EU's Freeze and Seize Task Force.

He is an Associate Fellow at the Centre for Finance and Security at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), the UK's leading defence think tank; Senior Research Affiliate at Singapore Management University's Centre for Digital Law; member of the steering committee of ANU's Defence Institute; member of the advisory board of the Centre for Financial Integrity in Kyiv, Ukraine, Ukraine's first financial integrity think tank; and member of the editorial board of the Journal of Economic Criminology. He was an academic editor of the Federal Law Review (2022-2024) and the Australian Studies Institute's inaugural International Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin (2023).

Anton is the Lead Chief Investigator on a 3-year, $529,000 Australian Research Council-funded Discovery project on financial sanctions implementation involving a team of seven experts across Australian, UK and Canadian institutions. He has also attracted over $100,000 in philanthropic funding to ANU. His work prior to joining ANU was funded by the Council of Europe; Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office; Economic and Social Research Council; and a variety of private-sector funders.

Anton was previously a Research Fellow at RUSI's Centre for Finance and Security. In that capacity, 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.

Anton's consultancy experience includes advising the World Bank and UN Office on Drugs and Crime on beneficial ownership transparency; an overseas banking association on proliferation financing; a European law enforcement agency on counter-terrorism law; and multiple other private-sector and government-funded projects worldwide.

He is widely sought after as a commentator on economic crime and sanctions by Australian and global media, including the ABC, AFP, Al Jazeera, The Australian, Australian Financial Review, BBC, Bloomberg, Canadian Affairs, Deutsche Welle, The Economist, France 24, The Guardian, Japan Times, SBS, Sky News, Sydney Morning Herald, Washington Post, 9News, etc.

LLM (Cantab), PhD (QMUL)

Money laundering; terrorist financing; proliferation financing; economic sanctions; corruption; criminal law; international law; financial regulation.