Meet the Keynote Speakers for the 33rd Annual ACFE Global Fraud Conference

Thousands of anti-fraud professionals attending the 33rd Annual ACFE Global Fraud Conference, June 19-24, will hear from some of the leading experts in the anti-fraud industry. Telling their stories of perseverance and sharing their insight, the conference will feature some of the following speakers:

Gurbir Grewal- Director, Division of Enforcement, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Gurbir Grewal is the Director of the SEC’s Division of Enforcement. Immediately before joining the Commission, Grewal was the Attorney General for the State of New Jersey. Prior to that, he served as the Bergen County Prosecutor, the chief law enforcement officer for New Jersey’s most populous county. Earlier in his career, Grewal served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, where he was Chief of the Economic Crimes Unit, and an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, where he was assigned to the business and securities fraud unit. He was also an attorney in private practice.

Alex Gibney- Director and Producer, “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room,” and “The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley”

Director Alex Gibney called “the most important documentarian of our time” by Esquire Magazine has a signature cinematic style that lends itself to penetrating, gripping, and deeply insightful documentaries. His work has been the recipient of an Academy Award, multiple Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, several Peabody Awards, the DuPont-Columbia Award, The Independent Spirit Award and The Writers Guild Awards.

Some of Gibney’s notable films include the Oscar nominated “Enron The Smartest Guys in the Room,” the multiple Emmy Award-winning “Mea Maxima Culpa”; the Peabody award-winning “Zero Days”; “No Stone Unturned,” which was nominated for WGA Award for Best Documentary Screenplay and an Emmy award for Outstanding Investigative Documentary; “Sinatra: All or Nothing at All,” a two-part special on legendary entertainer Frank Sinatra, and “Rolling Stone: Stories from the Edge,” co-directed by Blair Foster. His film “The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley” was nominated for an Emmy Award for Best Documentary and won the WGA Award for Best Documentary Screenplay. The acclaimed “Citizen K” premiered at the 76thVenice International Film Festival in 2019 and was later released theatrically in 2020.

Rachel Wilson- Director of Cybersecurity, Morgan Stanley Wealth Management

As the first-ever Head of Cyber Security for Morgan Stanley Wealth Management, Rachel Wilson is responsible for ensuring the integrity and confidentiality of firm and client data. Additionally, Wilson advises Morgan Stanley leadership on cybersecurity issues, including secure code development standards, secure network architecture, vendor relationships, advanced persistent threat (APT) detection and mobile security. She also leads field and client education and communication on cyber risk, threats and mitigations.

Prior to joining Morgan Stanley Wealth Management, Wilson spent 15 years at the National Security Agency (NSA) where she held several key, executive-level leadership positions working to detect and disrupt terrorist and cyber exploitation activity against the U.S. and its allies.

Michael Lewis- Best-Selling Author, “Moneyball,” “The Blind Side” and “The Big Short”

Financial journalist and New York Times best-selling author Michael Lewis has published sixteen books on subjects ranging from politics to Wall Street. Lewis‘s newest book, The Premonition: A Pandemic Story follows three central characters — a biochemist, a public health worker and a federal government employee who worked in the White House — as they confront the pandemic and find that the response from the U.S. government is woefully inadequate. His previous book, the NYT #1 best-seller Flash Boys, has taken the financial market and business world by storm upon its release in March 2014. The story reveals how the legal—but highly questionable—practice of high-frequency trading (HFT) allowed certain Wall Street players to work the stock market to their advantage.

Two of his most popular releases, The Big Short and Boomerang, are narratives set in the global financial crisis. His other works include The New New Thing, about Silicon Valley during the Internet boom; Coach, about the transformative powers of his own high school baseball coach; Losers, about the 1996 Presidential campaign; and Liar’s Poker, a Wall Street story based in part on his own experience working as a bond salesman for Salomon Brothers.

Lewis is a columnist for Bloomberg News and a contributing writer to Vanity Fair. His articles have also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Gourmet, Slate, Sports Illustrated, Foreign Affairs, and Poetry Magazine. He has served as editor and columnist for the British weekly The Spectator and as Senior Editor and campaign correspondent for The New Republic.

Pavandeep Gill- Wirecard Whistleblower

A former Allen & Overy and Clifford Chance lawyer, Pavandeep Gill has extensive experience in financial services laws, focusing on payments and digital assets/cryptocurrencies. He recently led the legal teams in the Asia-Pacific region in a mix of full-time and advisory roles for Wirecard, Wise and BigPay before joining Zipmex, a digital assets and wealth generation platform based in Southeast Asia, as its chief legal officer.

Gill is best known for being the whistleblower who exposed Wirecard, one of Europe's greatest financial scandals.

Tony Kwok- Former Deputy Commissioner and Head of Operations, Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC), Hong Kong

Tony Kwok has more than 40 years of experience in the anti-corruption field. He joined the Hong Kong Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) shortly after its inception in 1975 and fought against corruption in Hong Kong.

While serving in ICAC, he led a joint ICAC/Police Task Force with 30 officers to investigate the collapse of the third largest local bank in Hong Kong. This investigation uncovered a HK$3 billion (USD385M) fraud resulting in five convictions, including the three top management positions of the bank. The case also acted as catalyst in the formation of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, paving the way to enable Hong Kong to become the third largest financial center in the world. He was subsequently awarded a Governor Commendation for his leadership and professional ability in this case.