Nicolas GIANNAKOPOULOS - Profile

Nicolas GIANNAKOPOULOS

International Leading Specialist in anti-corruption, anti-MLA and anti-organized crime for over 25 years

PROFILE
  • Project-oriented and entrepreneur mindset
  • Recognized worldwide specialist on crime-related risk management and mitigation
  • Associated professor, lecturer and author in leading Universities in the world (US, UK, Switzerland, China, Mongolia, France, Italy, etc.)
  • Extensive network in the international institutions and NGOs on crime-related risk management.
EXPERTISE
  • Risk management
  • Due Diligence
  • International mitigation
  • Complexe cases analysis
  • Teaching and lecturing
  • Scientific research projects leading
  • Strategic thinking
  • Cyber-crime risk expert
  • Author
  • Asset recovery leading expert
  • High level negociation
  • Conferences and events
LANGUAGES
  • Fluent speaking and writing : French, English, Italian
  • Speaking : Spanish and Portuguese
  • Learning : Russian and Serbian

MEMBERSHIPS AND AWARDS

  • Founding member of ACADS
  • Member of the UNODC academic expert on crime
  • Member of LIBERA, EU association against organized crime
  • Receiver of the Medal of Merit of the Brazilian Magistrature for the Outstanding Efforts in Combatting Organized Crime in Latin America

CONTACT

Phone :

+41 79 536 0758

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CURRENT WORK EXPERIENCE
 
APEX FUSION FOUNDATION. – Zug (ZG) – CHAIRMAN – 2024
MILES SA is a company providing bespoke solutions for its APEX FUSION Foundation is a blockchain dedicated Foundation aimed at uniting Web 3.0 stakeholders and innovations around the world (https://foundation.apexfusion.org/).
 
MILES S.A. – Crans-Montana (VS) - FOUNDER – CHAIRMAN – 2018
MILES SA is a company providing bespoke solutions for its Clients in case of international mitigations and criminal risk related issues.

SWISS SAFE HARBOR SA – Geneva - FOUNDER – CHAIRMAN – 2020
Swiss Safe Harbor SA (SSH) is a swiss company dedicated to investments in gold, precious metals and commodities worldwide with trading activities in Singapore through its parent companies all fully registered and licensed.

ORGANIZED CRIME OBSERVATORY (OCO) – SWITZERLAND/BRASIL/US – CO-FOUNDER – PRESIDENT – 2001
The OCO is an association created in Geneva, Switzerland in 2001 aimed at the research, analysis, publishing and events on risks related to organized crime, money-laundering, corruption, traffickings and all other related criminal activities. The OCO has the ECOSOC observatory status at the United Nations Council of Human Rights and at the European Commission.

CH-COMMUNICATION SA – SWITZERLAND – CO-FOUNDER – CHAIRMAN – 2010
CH-COMMUNICATION SA is an ethical investment company co-founded by Nicolas Giannakopoulos and the Ergen family (US - EchoStar) for creating, managing and structuring ethical and respectful investments worldwide.

PAST WORK EXPERIENCE
ETHICS SA – SWITZERLAND - CO-FOUNDER – VICE-PRESIDENT – 2008-2012
ETHICS SA was a distributing the quality standard ETHICS for risk-management accredited by the International Board of Private Standardization ISAS.

STATE OF GENEVA – SWITZERLAND - EMPLOYEE – ANALYST – 2001-2007
Hired to manage risks in public tenders and closed state tenders applications for the Social and Economic Council of the Canton of Geneva then for the Cantonal Office for Unemployment (120 million CHF yearly budget).

FEDERAL DEPARTEMENT OF POLICE AND JUSTICE – SWITZERLAND – LEADING ANALYST AT THE FEDERAL POLICE CENTRAL OFFICE – 1996 - 2001
Under the direct supervision of the Swiss Ministry of Justice, Arnold Koller and the Chief of the Central Office for Organized Crime Michael Lauber (then Swiss Attorney General), the task was to provide a general assessment of the complex crime-related situations in Switzerland, define and assist in the MLA and anticorruption policy of Switzerland in the country and abroad, train and teach the specialized teams at the federal police and prosecutors offices, define and propose techniques, tools, processes, and assist in the new laws definitions and set-ups.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
INSTITUTE COMBATTING ECONOMIC CRIME (ILCE) – SWITZERLAND – ASSOCIATED PROFESSOR – 2009
The ILCE located in Neuchâtel is the leading professional school financed by the Swiss Confederation to deliver Master’s Degrees in Economic Crime analysis and mitigation. Responsible for the creation of all the exercise part of the academic cursus and teaching Criminal Structures.

LECTURES AND TEACHING IN OTHER UNIVERSITIES
  • Harvard, Yale and Northeastern University (US)
  • Beijing Normal University (BNU)
  • Faculty of Law at Ulaan Baatar University
  • University of Geneva, Global Studies Institute
  • Università Cattolica di Milano (Italy)
  • Università Cattolica di Brasilia (Brasil)
RESEARCH PROJECTS
  • Greek Debt and Criminal Risks (Northeastern Univ. Boston - US)
  • Afghan Narcotrafficking (East-West institute)
  • Countering Human Trafficking project (Univ. of Birmingham – UK)
  • African anticorruption frameworks (ROLACC – Qatar)
  • Organized Crime and Corruption in Switzerland (CH)
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