Dr. Christian Leuprecht (Ph.D. Queen’s) is Class of 1965 Distinguished Professor at the Royal Military College of Canada and Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Military Journal, Director of the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations in the School of Policy Studies at Queen’s University, a senior fellow at the Macdonald Laurier Institute and the Centre for North American Prosperity and security, and he is also an Adjunct Research Professor in the Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security at Charles Sturt University. A former Bicentennial Professor in Canadian Studies at Yale University (2009-2010), Matthew Flinders Fellow at Flinders University of South Australia (2017-2018), Eisenhower Fellow at the NATO Defence College (2019), and Fulbright Research Chair in Canada–US Relations at John Hopkins University’s School for Advanced International Studies (2020), he is an elected member of the College of New Scholars of the Royal Society of Canada, recipient of the Cowan Prize for Excellence in Research at the Royal Military College of Canada and past president of the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee 01: Armed Forces and Conflict Resolution.  He holds Ontario provincial appointments as chair of the Ontario Research Fund Advisory Board and to the Kingston Police Services Board. He is also a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s Cybercrime Advisory Group, the scientific advisory board of the World Customs Organization, and the boards of the UK’s Polar Institute and the OneSocietyNetwork.  His recent books include Dirty Money: Financial Crime in Canada (McGill-Queen’s University Press) – #22 of the Hill-Times 100 Best Books of 2023 -- Security. Cooperation. Governance. The Canada-United States Open Border Paradox (University of Michigan Press, 2023), Patterns in Border Security: Regional Comparisons (Routledge, 2023), Polar Cousins: Comparing Antarctic and Arctic Geostrategic Futures (University of Calgary Press, 2022), and Intelligence as Democratic Statecraft (Oxford University Press, 2021).  He is series editor of Canada: State of the Federation, published by McGill-Queen’s University Press and is a member of the editorial boards of Armed Forces & Society, Commonwealth & Comparative Politics and the Springer book series in Advances in Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications. He previously held a federal appointment to the Council of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and served as Associate Dean as well as Deputy Head.

Canadian lawyer Jeffrey Simser was Canada’s first director of civil forfeiture and served with the Ministry of the Attorney General in Toronto, Canada for over thirty years. He is a senior associate fellow at RUSI, the Royal United Services Institute and one of Canada’s leading experts on money laundering and asset forfeiture law. He holds law degrees from Queens University at Kingston and Osgoode Hall Law School. Mr. Simser is the author of two published books, Canadian Anti-Money laundering Law: The Gaming Sector and Civil Asset Forfeiture in Canada (loose-leaf). He has published dozens of peer-reviewed articles. Mr. Simser was twice qualified as an expert witness at the Commission of Inquiry into Money Laundering in British Columbia (the Cullen Commission) and recently testified before Canada’s Standing Committee on Finance to address money laundering issues. Mr. Simser provides advice, training, and support to law enforcement in jurisdictions across Canada and around the world (including South Africa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Philippines, Guatemala, and Kenya).

Cameron Field brings to VIDOCQ a distinguished career in both law enforcement and the private sector. Cameron specializes in complex fraud, anti-money laundering and sensitive corporate investigations, corporate due diligence and training, behavioral threat, and risk assessment evaluations.
Cameron served with the Toronto Police Service for 32 years and worked in a variety of roles including drug enforcement, major crime, white-collar crime, behavioral assessment, internal affairs, and corporate training. He was the Officer in Charge of the Corporate Crimes Team and supervised complex investigations into multi-million-dollar fraud, money laundering, and investment scams of national and international scope. He then joined BMO’s Anti Money Laundering Office for five years in their leadership team. In this role he consulted on AML program development, regulatory filing, transaction monitoring, enhanced due diligence, major investigations, terrorist financing, sanctions avoidance cases, and on privacy matters in large corporate investigations. He led intelligence and law enforcement liaison for the Global AML Group and represented the bank in numerous public private partnerships targeting transnational financial crime.
Cameron received a Bachelor of Arts in Justice Studies from the University of Guelph and a Master of Science in Criminology from the University of Leicester in England. His master’s degree dissertation focused on cybercrime involving fraud and identity theft. He is also a Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS).  Cameron lectures and publishes extensively in industry and law enforcement circles and contributes to academic research through scholarship and peer review. He currently sits on the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police Private Sector Liaison Committee and is a Director of Programming for the GTA Toronto Chapter of the Association of Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS). He has served on Boards for the International Association of Chiefs of Police, Toronto Beyond the Blue, International Association of Crime Prevention Professionals, Canadian Association of Threat Assessment Professionals, and the Canadian Society of Evidence Based Policing.

Jennifer Fiddian-Green, FCPA/FCA, IFA, CAMS, CFF, CFE, CFI
Managing Director, Forensics Services
Doane Grant Thornton LLP

Jennifer is the firm's National AML Services Leader, a Chartered Professional Accountant, a qualified Investigation and Forensic Accountant and a Certified AML Specialist. Jennifer regularly provides consulting, training and compliance program review services to financial organizations, including banks, credit union organizations, securities dealers and money services businesses.

Jennifer has led the development of our AML compliance program review services, regularly works with regulated entities to address and manage higher money laundering and terrorist financing risk areas and provides recommendations for practical and defensible compliance strategies.

Jennifer has had AML as a focus of her professional work for over 20 years.