Dr JuIie Beesley is currently pursuing academic research and personal interests.  

She is a fellow chartered accountant, certified anti-money laundering specialist and certified fraud examiner with degrees in physics (Imperial College, London University) and criminology (master and doctorate, Sydney Law School, Sydney University).  Her doctoral thesis is in organised crime and terrorism and comprises the development of a new criminological model to apply complexity science, including chaos theory, to complex criminological phenomena with real-world practical application.  

As demonstrated by her own professional qualifications and achievements in academia, she is a natural champion of continuous learning, thinking differently and enjoys making the complex simple.  Her current studies focus on graphology – handwriting analysis.  Handwriting is as unique as our DNA and is often called brain writing as it involves signals from the brain.  Each person’s handwriting reflects their individual characteristics and personality traits, and also offers insights into the writer’s state of mind and wellbeing. She is particularly interested in criminal and historical profiling, including forensic document examination. 

She is a former global banking executive, money laundering reporting officer and big four consulting partner, where she spent over three decades specialising in risk and compliance, with deep expertise in forensic accounting and financial crime risk management, predominately in the financial services sector.  As a leader, she successfully created, optimised and led large complex corporate teams across retail, private, corporate and investment banking and readily embraced digital change and new technologies.  She has proven experience in overseeing multi-year transformation programmes and strengthening broader risk management and compliance frameworks, including corporate governance, ethics, reporting, codes of conduct, risk assessments, reputational risk, data management, policies and standards.  Her experience includes accounting, audit, consulting and cross-border investigations, involving money laundering, terrorism financing, fraud, bribery and corruption, tax evasion and insider trading.  She also worked extensively as a trusted advisor with government and industry bodies, including regulators, intelligence agencies and law enforcement.  During her corporate career, she worked in over 30 countries and lived in four: UK, US, Switzerland and Australia.  She currently resides in the UK.

At the heart of Julie's DNA, is a love of art and science...and exploring life's many mysteries.