Biography

Arzu Abbasova is a Research Analyst at the Centre for Finance and Security. Her research explores the pathways to achieving inclusive financial integrity and the unintended consequences of the misuse of the FATF standards. She has also previously focused on combating kleptocracy by empowering civil society activists and investigative journalists with a deeper understanding of the FATF standards. 

Prior to joining RUSI, Arzu worked as an Analyst at Ingenium Biometrics, researching emerging technologies in the UK and before that she was a Research Assistant at IISS in the Cyber, Space and Future Conflicts Department. She holds a dual masters degree in International Security and International Relations from Sciences Po and London School of Economics.

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Restricting Kleptocracy

Empowering civil society and the media to tackle illicit financial flows in Latin America, East Africa and the Western Balkans.

Charting Authoritarian Abuses of the FATF Standards

This project looks at how anti-financial crime standards are being co-opted to meet authoritarian ends.

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