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Gaon Hart

Managing Director
L.A.W: Legal Advisory Worldwide

Gaon is currently a Non-Executive Director for the NHS Counter-Fraud Authority and Managing Director of LAW: Legal Advisory Worldwide; a boutique legal consultancy, providing specialist economic crime prevention policy and process advice to medium and large corporates, particularly start-ups. Gaon is an experienced corporate compliance programme designer and Public Policy specialist. As a former Senior Crown Advocate for the Special Crime & Counter Terrorism Division (CPS), he focussed on corporate investigations, policy & process reviews. Having been seconded to the Attorney General’s Office, he led the 2006 national Fraud review and worked at the heart of government obtaining cross-party support, bringing in the current UK counter-fraud architecture. As Head of Global Anti-Bribery & Corruption Advisory, Policy & Training for HSBC Bank, he brought his technical expertise into the corporate arena, designing from scratch and covering every element a pragmatic and practical global framework global designing and implementing a global anti-corruption programme from scratch covering 64 countries and 230,000 staff. Publicly, he represented the UK at GRECO, UNCAC and at an EU Mission to Romania, was Co-Chair of the UK Finance Anti-Bribery & Corruption Committee, advised the UN on their report, ‘Bankrupting the Business of Human Trafficking’, co-authored the UK Finance definitive guide to the ‘Definition of Public Official’ and undertook multiple public engagements including appearing before a Parliamentary Treasury Select Committee on behalf of Amazon.