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Dr. Andrea Galli, a former theoretical physicist at Max Planck Institutes in Munich and ETHZ in Zürich, is currently a partner and co-founder of Swiss East Affairs GmbH, a boutique white-collar investigations practice in Zürich. He specializes in international economic crimes investigation and intelligence, principally risk management; asset tracing; compliance; due diligence; complex investigations; anti-money laundering (AML/CFT/KYC/KYT); financial crime investigations; sanctions and counter-terrorism; computer forensics; e-discovery; and economic intelligence and counter-intelligence.
He has substantial government and regulatory connections in Switzerland, as well as links to the intelligence sector in Eastern Europe, the CIS countries, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. He is a certified member of the Council of International Investigators and ranked as "Thought Leaders" in WWL, the organization that distinguishes the foremost legal practitioners and consulting experts in investigations.
Dr. Galli has been distinguished in several international articles on the exposure of significant cases of fraud, corruption, money laundering, and information manipulation. His investigation and consulting activities have included clients such as Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley, BNP-Paribas, Swiss Army, Armasuisse, RUAG, Fedpol, Public Prosecutor Office Zürich, Renova, Kinross Gold Corporation, Roche Diagnostics, ENI, Mondi Group, Novartis International, several specialized law offices, UHNWI clients, and some foreign government agencies.
An AML expert and pioneer, he was an architect of the AML KYC solution deployed at Credit Suisse. He has also served as a lecturer in economic crime investigation at the University of Lucerne and he still lectures at the Centro di Studi Bancari Villa Negroni in Lugano. He has cooperated with large investigative groups dealing with cases published by the ICIJ, the OCCRP, and Modern Diplomacy, as well as some anti-Mafia foundations in Italy. He was the initiator of the research project titled "Atlas of the Money Laundering Industry."