Oliver Bullough Keynote Speaker

Author of 'Everybody Loves Our Dollars: How Money Laundering Won', a Sunday Times bestseller
Contributor to The Guardian, the BBC and the New York Times
Insights into the dark side of finance and the world of money laundering

Oliver Bullough's Biography

Oliver Bullough is an author and journalist from Wales, who specializes in writing about financial crime, often when it has links to the former Soviet Union. His journalism appears in the Guardian, the Sunday Times, the New York Times, on BBC radio and elsewhere. He is a contributing editor to Coda, an independent news site that does in depth reporting on a few key global stories.

His most recent book is Everybody Loves Our Dollars: How Money Laundering Won, a Sunday Times bestseller, which explores how global financial systems enable and sustain money laundering on an industrial scale. His previous book, Butler to the World: How Britain Became the Servant of Tycoons, Tax Dodgers, Kleptocrats and Criminals (2022), explored Britain’s role as a centre for enabling financial crime. It was longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year and was named a “best book of the year” by The Economist, The Times, The Sunday Times, The New Yorker and the Financial Times.

His earlier bestselling book, Moneyland: Why Thieves and Crooks Now Rule the World and How to Take It Back, explored global kleptocracy and was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize.

He appears regularly at literary festivals, conferences, and as a pundit on television. He lives near Hay-on-Wye, and spends his free time cooking, running and watching rugby.

He is a leading authority on financial crime and kleptocracy, helping leaders understand how illicit money flows shape global markets, politics and risk.
He translates complex systems of money laundering and corruption into clear, compelling narratives that sharpen judgement and inform decision-making.
He brings deep investigative insight from years of reporting for major international media, uncovering how financial networks enable criminal activity at scale.
He is the bestselling author of critically acclaimed books on global finance and corruption, offering powerful frameworks for understanding hidden economic forces.
His briefings help organisations identify systemic risk, strengthen governance and navigate an increasingly opaque global financial landscape.