John
Mair
Since 2008 John Mair leads the team which advises the EBRD on the integrity and reputation risk of its investments. He also runs the EBRD’s internal and external capacity building activities on combatting terrorist finance and money laundering. Previously he held senior commercial roles at Lloyds Banking Group in Europe and Latin America, before becoming its first Group Financial Crime Director in 2001. In 2006 he was appointed Senior Vice President at Western Union, covering risk in the 130 countries and 200,000 outlets outside the Americas. More recently he was a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Illicit Trade.
John’s interest in ethics, governance, and ‘problems’ means that he has served on a variety of UK and international public and private sector committees on the themes of Risk, Ethics, and Governance. Amongst other appointments he sits on the Advisory Board of UCL’s School of Ethics and Laws; and is visiting Professor and Senior Fellow on Financial Integrity at Case Western School of Law (USA). He is a member of Transparency International’s Business Principles Steering Committee, and represents the EBRD at the OECD FATF.
An alumnus of Durham and Cambridge Universities, he was formerly a schoolmaster, and coach to the Great Britain rowing team. He is married with three children.