Professor Bob Ferguson, LLB, PhD
Visiting Professor
Bob Ferguson is Head of the Financial Crime and Intelligence Department in the Enforcement and Financial Crime Division of the Financial Services Authority.
His department supports the FSA's role as gatekeeper to the UK financial sector, as well as its financial crime and market abuse investigations. It leads development of the risk-based approach to money laundering and other financial crimes, both domestically and internationally, provides specialist support to supervisors and conducts thematic work. It also provides the FSA and stakeholders with a coherent view of the FSA’s financial crime risks.
Bob studied law at Edinburgh University, and lectured in Cardiff and Dundee, researching and publishing on the role of law and regulation in economic life. He joined the Securities and Investments Board in 1987 specialising in retail policy. There he helped to devise the review of pension misselling, and went on to supervise the Investment Management Regulatory Organisation after the Maxwell affair. After joining the FSA, he orchestrated the making of the FSA Handbook of Rules and Guidance, and led on the formulation of the FSA Principles. For the last five years he has been involved in the build up of the FSA’s financial crime and intelligence work.
He is a member of the Money Laundering Advisory Committee (MLAC) and the National Fraud Authority’s Programme Board.