Lene Hansen is a criminologist specialising in financial crime. Over two decades, she has worked for exchanges, regulators and litigators in over 20 countries. Initially dedicating herself to the human rights of sex workers, she was thrown into the world of corporate crime by an encounter with the victim of a supposedly victimless crime committed by Robert Maxwell. Her subsequent work on this area led to the offer of a postgraduate place at the University of Cambridge. Since then she has worked for positive change on projects as diverse as the Financial Secretary of Hong Kong's Peregrine Investiga tion, the development of derivatives risk systems with the Options Clearing Corp. of Chicago, environmental degradation across Asia, anti-money laundering in Dubai and the fallout of the Royal Bank of Scotland's takeover of ABN AMRO.