2024 Certified Fraud Examiner of the Year Award: Dr. David P. Weber
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Every year, the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) recognizes individuals and organizations who demonstrate outstanding achievements in their professional and personal endeavors. The ACFE Awards highlight the very best of the anti-fraud profession and serve to inspire a global community of ACFE members, their colleagues and future generations of fraud fighters.
The Certified Fraud Examiner of the Year Award is presented to a CFE who has shown outstanding achievement in fraud examination. This year, the ACFE is honored to present the award to Dr. David P. Weber, CFE, for his exemplary dedication to fraud prevention, investigation, and education. Dr. Weber has consistently gone above and beyond in his career, contributing significantly to both the academic and professional communities.
Dr. David P. Weber, CFE, is a professor and the program director of the Fraud and Forensic Accounting Certificate Program at the Perdue School of Business, Salisbury University. He is a licensed attorney, forensic accountant, Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) and registered private investigator.
Dr. Weber’s research focuses on accounting organizational behavior, and why people engage in financial misconduct in the workplace. He is currently spearheading Salisbury’s fraud examination experiential learning program, in which students assist in investigations and prosecutions of financial and high-tech crime on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay, among the most geographical and austere areas of the United States. In 2022, 2023 and 2024, the United States government awarded Dr. Weber an approximate $3 million grant to support the fraud experiential program, putting the fraud expertise of his students to work combatting rural, elder financial exploitation and high-tech crime.
Dr. Weber concluded his two-decade federal career as the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) Assistant Inspector General for Investigations. Prior to this, he served as Chief of Enforcement Unit I of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the Special Counsel for Enforcement for the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.
Dr. Weber received his law degree from Syracuse University College of Law, and his doctorate in accounting from the University of Florida, where his ground-breaking research on the demographics of embezzlement was named the best dissertation in forensic accounting by the American Accounting Association.
Dr. David P. Weber, CFE embodies the commitment, consistency and dedication that are core values for a long, successful career in the anti-fraud profession.
