Bill Peace
Honorary Senior Research Associate, Department of Security and Crime Science, UCL
Bill has worked in security and countering crime for over 30 years He served successively in the leadership of the National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS) and then the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), forerunners of the current National Crime Agency.
In SOCA, he led the work of the UK Financial Intelligence Unit (including the SARs regime) and the UK’s National Central Bureau for Interpol which were embedded in the agency. He also led the development of the agency’s intelligence management capability, including its information sharing and risk management practices, its compliance with information and regulatory powers legislation and its programmes of data analytics and intelligence sharing with partners.
Since 2013, Bill has worked on a variety of projects including
- as a visiting fellow at King’s College London, on using open source intelligence in due diligence investigations;
- with the anti-slavery NGO Stop the Traffik, helping the organisation with intelligence collection, analysis and partnership in building innovative approaches to community and commercial resilience against modern slavery; he currently holds a visiting senior research associateship with the Department of Security and Crime Science at UCL in connection with this work;
- with Transparency International and the Royal United Services Institute on advisory boards for projects relating to corruption and financial crime
- freelance consultancy work in security and financial crime
Bill was educated as a scientist and holds MA and PhD degrees from the University of Cambridge, and a masters in human resources management.