Helen Taylor

Dr Helen Taylor is a senior legal researcher at the UK-based charity Spotlight on Corruption. She leads Spotlight’s court monitoring programme, tracking major cases related to corruption, foreign bribery, money laundering and sanctions that are heard in the courts of England and Wales. She also contributes to Spotlight’s research and advocacy in a range of policy areas, including asset recovery, victim compensation, anti-money laundering and sanctions.

Helen previously worked at the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture, Corruption and Fraud in South Africa, and has also clerked at the South African Constitutional Court. Helen completed her DPhil in Law at the University of Oxford, and is a research associate at the South African Institute for Advanced Constitutional, Human Rights, Public and International Law at the University of Johannesburg.