Connecting Research and Practice
A 1 ½ day conference on financial fraud research, prevention, and detection
Washington D.C. Sofitel on 15th St. NW
Thursday & Friday
November 3rd to 4th, 2011
As the inaugural conference of the Financial Fraud Research Center, this event shared the latest interdisciplinary research as it informs our understanding, detection, and prevention of financial fraud, and connected financial fraud researchers with prevention and detection professionals. These goals, in combination, aim to increase the efficacy of fraud-fighting efforts.
Additional Resources:
Each session is listed below (in order of appearance). Associated resources are included where available.
| Session | Available Materials |
| Welcome Remarks Rick Ketchum, Chairman, FINRA Investor Education Foundation and Chairman & CEO, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) |
Full text of remarks |
| Keynote Mary Schapiro, Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Full text of remarks |
| Profiling: Who are the Fraudsters? Aaron Seres, Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) Unit Chief, Financial Crimes/Economic Crimes Unit Neal Shover, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Tennessee with Shanna Van Slyke, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, Utica College |
No materials available at this time |
| Keynote Robert Cialdini, Ph.D., leading persuasion researcher and author of the New York Times Bestseller, Influence |
No materials available at this time |
| Profiling: Who are the Victims? Karla Pak, Ph.D., Senior Program Coordinator for AARP Washington Doug Shadel, Ph.D., Washington State Director, AARP |
No materials available at this time |
| Prevention: Evidence-based programs that work Melodye Kleinman, Executive Director, National Telemarketing Victim Call Center Gerri Walsh, Vice President, Investor Education, FINRA & President, FINRA Investor Education Foundation |
Joint session slides |
| Detection: Research and Strategies Joe Brazel, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Accounting, North Carolina State University Cameron Funkhouser, Executive Vice President, Office of Fraud Detection and Market Intelligence, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) |
Professor Brazel’s selected slides |
| Keynote Neil MacBride, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia |
Full text of remarks |
| Future of Fraud: Innovations in Fraud, Prevention, and Detection Charles Harwood, Deputy Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection at the Federal Trade Commission Henry Pontell, Ph.D., Professor of Criminology, Law & Society and Sociology, University of California, Irvine |
Professor Pontell’s text of remarks |
| Keynote Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong (CIV), Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Consumer Protection Branch, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice |
Full text of remarks |
| What’s Next? Fraud in an Aging Society Laura Carstensen, Ph.D., Farleigh S. Dickinson Jr. Professor in Public Policy & Professor of Psychology, Stanford University, and Founding Director of the Stanford Center on Longevity Debra Whitman, Ph.D., Majority Staff Director, Senate Special Committee on Aging |
No materials at this time |
Please feel free to contact the Center with any questions.
