Nikos Passas is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the Northeastern University. He is also Visiting Professor at Vienna University of Applied Sciences for Management & Communication’s Center for Corporate Governance & Business Ethics; Distinguished Visiting Professor at Beijing Normal University; Distinguished Practitioner in Financial Integrity and Senior Fellow of the Financial Integrity Institute at Case Western Reserve Law School, Chair of the Academic Council of the Anti-Corruption Academy in India and Member of the Board of Directors at Compliance Capacity and Skills International (CCSI). He serves on the Advisory Board of the Centre for Crime, Justice and Policing at the University of Birmingham, the Global Advisory Board of the Transnational Alliance to Combat Illicit Trade (TRACIT) and the Advisory Board of the Global Risk Profile in Geneva. His law degree is from the Univ. of Athens (LL.B.), his Master’s from the University of Paris-Paris II (D.E.A.) and his Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh, Faculty of Law. He is a member of the Athens Bar (Greece). He has published more than 230 articles, book chapters, reports and books in 14 languages.
For 14 years, he was editor-in-chief of the International Journal Crime, Law and Social Change and associate editor in a number of journals. He served as Chair of the American Society of Criminology International Division and on the Board of Directors of the International Society of Criminology. In 2016 he was a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the T.C. Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland, Australia.
