Meet Umut Turksen

Dr Umut Turksen is a Professor in Law at the Centre Financial and Corporate Integrity of Coventry University. Umut is a business-facing legal academic, and he is interested in the practical application of the law in innovation, societal security and development. He has provided consultancy and training to prestigious international businesses, institutions (e.g., NATO, CEPOL, OECD, EU Commission DG Home,  Council of Europe) and government projects. He has led the EU-funded project "PROTAX," which focused on countering tax crimes in Europe and he is currently coordinating another EU-funded project, TRACE, (https://trace-illicit-money-flows.eu) which aims to create technology-based solutions (including AI) for tracking illicit money flows.

In addition to his expertise in financial crime, societal security, risk and compliance, Umut has published extensively on energy law and security, international trade law and development, and arbitration. See, https://pureportal.coventry.ac.uk/en/persons/umut-turksen for further details.

Within KEYSTONE…

Umut leads the legal research cluster in addressing the societal impact, legal and ethics assessment of the project’s outputs, as well as data protection requirements of the project. He has also co-authored the data management plan for the KEYSTONE project.