Michele Riccardi is Deputy Director of Transcrime, Research Centre on Innovation and Crime of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, and Co-founder and Administrator of Crime&tech, spin-off of Transcrime. He is a professor at the Università Cattolica, the Università di Palermo and the ASERI. He is member of the Asset Recovery Office of the European Commission, of the Europol SOCTA Academic Advisory Board and the expert groups on money laundering risk assessment for the European Commission and Italy.