An LSE economics graduate, John Walker’s interesting career began with a brief involvement in rocket science, moved on to transportation networks and regional analysis, and eventually to a 35 year career as a criminologist, initially with the Australian Institute of Criminology, and subsequently as an independent consultant. He specialises in the development of forecasting models for strategic planning of criminal justice systems, and economic models of the proceeds of crime, the costs of crime, and money laundering. He has contributed to the development of international crime statistics, including the U.N.’s Global Report on Crime and Justice and the International Crime Victims Surveys. In 1995, he produced a seminal report on the extent of moneylaundering in and through Australia, later developing the methodology into a model of global moneylaundering flows, blending criminology and standard economic models of international trade. His recent work for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime includes the development of an economic model of the global trades in illicit drugs, for the World Drug Report 2005, and a “gravity-style” model of moneylaundering for the 2011 UNODC publication “Illicit Financial Flows from Transnational Organised Crime”.
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