DR James Backhouse

RECENT CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS ORGANISED
 

1.             SSIT7: The Social Study of Information and Communications Technology, March 19^th and 20^th 2007, Seventh Workshop of the LSE Information Systems Group. Programme Organiser of the Workshop with Ruth Halperin. LSE. http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/informationSystems/newsAndEvents/2007events/SSIT7.htm

2.             Cambridge Annual Symposium on Economic Crime, Jesus College, Cambridge. 1993- 2007 Member, Organising Committee since 1993. Contributed topics and speakers, together with conference papers and workshops on anti-money laundering and information security.

3.             International Spotlight Seminars (6) organised for dissemination of the results of the Spotlight project: Brussels, March 2^nd 2005 at Free University; Rome, June 22^nd 2005 Università della Sapienza, chaired by Director, Ufficio Italiano dei Cambi; London, LSE, July 6^th 2005, Barcelona, July 12^th 2005 at CIDOB, chaired by Prof Fred Halliday, LSE; Athens, July 21^st 2005, at British Embassy, chaired by Prof Ian Angell, LSE.

4.             Closing the door on fraud and money laundering, a conference hosted jointly with CSRC and Hewlett Packard, was held on February 25^th 2003 at the Thistle Hotel in London and drew a audience of over 100 attendees, AML compliance officers in banking and financial services. Keynote speech by Professor Ian Angell.

5.             Two workshops on Anti-Money Laundering held at LSE on November 13^th 2002 and on the 3^rd February 2003 that brought together regulators and Anti Money Laundering compliance officers. Present were representatives from FINCEN and FINTRAC, the US and Canadian Financial Intelligence Unit respectively, the FSA, a representative from the Swedish FIU and the UBS Compliance Director.

Uniting Theory and Practice Workshop, Nov 15 2002, London. The Computer Security Research Centre successfully organised in November 2002 a joint workshop of over 50 attendees with two IFIP (International Federation of Information Processing) Working Groups 9.2 and 11.7.