Speakers

• Teesside University UK, Master of Arts - Financial Investigation & Financial Crime, 2010
• Austrian Police Academy, 1983 – 1985 and 1990 – 1991, CID Officer, specialised in Economic and Financial Crime Investigations

Professional Activities:

• December 2020 onwards: Head of Department European Economic & Financial Crime Centre
• January 2017 – December 2020: Head of Unit EU Policy matters and coordination at the Austrian Ministry of the Interior
• February 2007 – December 2016 – Head of the Europol Criminal Assets Bureau
• From 1991 to 2007 Financial Investigator in various roles and responsibilities in the area of combating money laundering and organised crime – Economic Crime Unit, AT - FIU, Task Force on Organised Crime - Ministry of the Interior, Austrian Asset Recovery Office.
• Member of the AT FATF Delegation, founding member of the Egmont Group of FIUs and the CARIN Network of Asset Recovery Experts, Chairman of Law Enforcement Council Working Groups under the AT EU Presidencies in 2006 and 2018.

References & Special Mentions

• Publication: “Access by law enforcement agencies to financial data” Burkhard Mühl, in Research Handbook on Money Laundering, 2013, pp 452 – 461, Edward Elgar Publishing
• 2017 to 2020: Member of the Austrian Delegation in the Standing Committee on Operational Cooperation on Internal Security of the European Union (COSI).