Andrew
Mackay
Andrew Mackay is an independent consultant and trainer on anti-money laundering, countering the financing of terrorism and counter proliferation financing. He is an Associate Fellow at the RUSI Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies (CFCS) and a Doctoral Candidate at the United Nations’ University for Peace (UPEACE) researching the impact of Illicit Finance on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 16 (SDG 16). He is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS), a Certified Cryptocurrency Investigator (CCI) and a founding director and co-Chair of the Malta ACAMS Chapter.
A former Royal Navy intelligence officer, he undertook operational deployments in Bosnia investigating war crimes and in the Middle East and Asia investigating Threat Finance networks. He has also had postings to the NATO Southern Region HQ in Naples, the Ministry of Defence in London and 4 years at the British Embassy in Washington DC, a role which focused on technology and innovation, especially open-source intelligence (OSINT) capability development.
Following military service, Andrew was Head of Financial Crime Threat Mitigation for HSBC Malta as the country head for financial crime investigations, analytics and intelligence, and Innovation Champion. As an independent consultant on financial crime, he has worked in the British Virgin Islands (BVI), Central Asia, Asia, Latin America, the EU, and the Western Balkans.
Andrew has an MA with Distinction in Intelligence and International Security from Kings College London. His dissertation focused on the use of financial intelligence (FININT) for anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism.