Aretha Campbell has worked in the offshore financial services industry for the past 16 years and is a recent PhD graduate from the University of Salamanca, Spain in the area of Rule of Law and Global Governance. Her research interests center on financial global governance, transnational policy organizations, money laundering, terrorist financing, tax evasion, and offshore financial centres (OFCs) with a specific focus on the Caribbean region. She aims to find ways to mitigate the risks associated with money laundering, terrorist financing, and tax evasion in the Caribbean region, and to identify alternative means to further develop the offshore financial services industry with a view to strengthening their local economies. She is an adjunct course coordinator at the University of the West Indies Open Campus and an affiliated postdoctoral researcher at the University of Antwerp.