Prof. Louis de Koker
Professor of Law, La Trobe LawTech, La Trobe University; Senior Financial Crime Consultant: CGAP, La Trobe Law School
Louis de Koker holds a chair in law at La Trobe Law School (Australia), where he leads the La Trobe LawTech team. Since 2009, he has served as the senior financial crime policy consultant to the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP), an independent think tank housed at the World Bank that promotes financial inclusion. He is also currently an Extraordinary Professor in the Department of Commercial and Labour Law at the University of the Western Cape.
A former director of the Centre for the Study of Economic Crime at the University of Johannesburg, Louis has advised on a range of financial crime laws and financial technologies in countries such as Fiji, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Namibia, Samoa, South Africa, Uganda, and Vietnam. Louis has served on various drafting and project teams of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and his research has been cited in publications by various international bodies, including the World Bank, the IMF, the FATF, and the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision.
His recent books include:
• Financial Technology and the Law: Combating Financial Crime (Springer, 2022), edited by Goldbarsht and De Koker
• Financial Crime and the Law: Identifying and Mitigating Risks (Springer, 2024), edited by Goldbarsht and De Koker
• Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing: Law and Compliance in South Africa (LexisNexis South Africa, 2025), co-authored by De Koker et al.