Elizabeth Rainbow

Adjunct Staff

Ms Elizabeth Rainbow

Dip (Security & Risk Management); AdvDip (Leadership & Management); GradDipTransInterp (Spanish); MAIntelAnlys; BA (Spanish & Latin American Studies)

Adjunct Lecturer in Financial Crime
off campus

Elizabeth has enjoyed a rich and diverse career in Financial Crime, Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing (AMLCTF), Intelligence, Security Risk Management and Cyber Security. Highlights include working as a senior analyst drafting sections of Australia’s first National Threat Assessment on Money Laundering at AUSTRAC; working in the Financial Intelligence Assessment Team in the Australian Crime Commission analysing complex financial crime, helping to dismantle sophisticated criminal networks; and working for the Commonwealth Bank of Australia leading a team of analysts in the production of all-source intelligence to identify potential money laundering or terrorism financing activity.

Elizabeth has experience in Federal Government in the areas of national security, law enforcement, security, immigration, people smuggling, AMLCTF and compliance.

She has a keen interest in financial crime and money laundering. Her particular areas of interest include: trade-based money laundering, phoenixing, the cyber-fraud nexus, and typologies and indicators of financial crimes.

Research

Research areas of interest:

  • Public-private partnerships
  • Financial crime typologies and indicators
  • Financial Crime Intelligence
  • Cyber-Fraud nexus

Professional

  • ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
  • Member of ISACA