Chris Mathers

Chris Mathers

Crime, Terrorism and Security Expert

Having addressed a wide variety of audiences from manufacturing to retail, healthcare to financial services, Chris easily links his experience and knowledge of the underworld with the interests and concerns of a particular sector. He inspires the good guys and gives us the tools to rise to the challenge. A compelling storyteller with many outrageous and entertaining tales to tell, Chris Mathers is a unique, humorous and fascinating speaker.


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Chris Mathers spent most of his adult life working undercover for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, US Drug Enforcement Administration and the US Customs Service.  Posing as a gangster, a drug trafficker and finally as a money launderer, Mathers has done it all, and his book, CRIME SCHOOL: Money Laundering, tells it all.

Mathers retired after a 20-year career with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.  At the time of his retirement, he was the senior undercover operator at the RCMP Proceeds of Crime Section where he established and operated a number of “storefront” money laundering businesses in Canada and the US, targeting Colombian, Russian and Asian organized crime groups.  Mathers personally infiltrated criminal organizations in North America, the Caribbean, Latin America and Europe.

In 1995, Mathers joined the Forensic division of the international accounting firm, KPMG.  In 1999, he was appointed to the position of President of KPMG Corporate Intelligence Inc. where he was responsible for international due diligence, asset recovery operations and the investigation and prevention of organized crime and money laundering.

Mathers established his own firm where he provides crime and risk consulting services to selected domestic and international clients, specializing in fraud, money laundering, terrorism and organized crime issues. Mathers concluded an offshore asset tracing assignment on behalf of the Independent Inquiry Committee into the United Nations Oil-For-Food Programme in Iraq.

A popular media commentator and speaker, Mathers has served as a consultant on several feature films and documentaries relating to organized crime, espionage and money laundering. He has appeared on television and radio interviews on CNN, PBS, MSNBC, all of the Canadian national news networks as well as media outlets in Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia and the Caribbean. Mathers is also the host of The Egyptian Job, on the National Geographic Channel.

As a speaker, Mathers’ controversial style describes the secret underworld of gangsters and terrorists, explaining the terms and identifying the characters, in a candid, no-punches-pulled style that is consistent with this extraordinary man.

  • Other Available Topics:

    ·My Life - 20 Years Undercover
    ·Money Laundering Issues in Domestic and International Business
    ·Lies and the People That Tell Them - Body Language, Non-verbal Communication and the Detection of Deception. 
    ·Workplace Violence and Sexual Harassment 
    ·Espionage in the Workplace 
    ·Ethics and Integrity in the Workplace

  • 4. Identity Theft and Internet Crime

  • 3. The Personal and Business Impact of Computer Crime

  • 2. Crime in Business and the Business of Crime

  • 1. Fraud and the Economic Crisis

  • I've known Chris for years. From the first time I met him in Panama (see the chapter on Noriega, where Chris talks about the hotel we stayed in having been purchased with drug money!), I've come to respect and admire him as not only the best connected guy in this business, but one of the most entertaining and knowledgeable writers and speakers on international criminal organizations and money laundering techniques.
    James R. Richards, Director, Global Anti-Money Laundering, Bank of America
  • A human chameleon.
    Commissioner, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, (1987-94), President of Interpol (1991-1994)
  • Chris' credibility and engaging approach will scare the hell out of you and keep you riveted at the same time.
    Ross Shafer, Motivational Speaker and Former Host of FOX TV's, The Late Show
  • Dead smart and tough. He's one of the most dangerous men I know. Thank God he's on the side of the good guys.
    Reid Morden, Director, Canadian Security Intelligence Service (1991-1994)
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    March 2004

    Crime School: Money Laundering

    Appealing to true crime fans and those in the business/finance sector, Crime School takes us through the history of money laundering, from ancient times through the South Florida cocaine craze of the 1970s, to today's beyond sophisticated techniques employed by terrorists and organized crime, techniques that have achieved such success that the face of our world has changed dramatically. Brisk, hard hitting, entertaining and sometimes shocking and frightening, Chris Mathers takes readers on a journey that is always fascinating, and it is an underworld few have ever experienced. Truly amazing.


Bio

Chris Mathers a travaillé la plus grand partie de sa vie pour la GRC à titre d’agent secret, pour la US Drug Enforcement Administration et pour le Service des douanes américaines. Il a incarné tous les rôles possibles et imaginables. Il a été tour à tour gangster, trafiquant de drogues et blanchisseur d’argent. Il a fait un peu de tout et son nouvel ouvrage CRIME SCHOOL : Money Laundering en témoigne.

Au moment de sa retraite qui a mis fin à 20 années de carrière au sein de la Gendarmerie royale du Canada, Chris Mathers occupait le poste d’agent d’infiltration au sein des produits de la criminalité de la GRC. Là, il a contrôlé et dirigé de nombreuses entreprises de blanchiment d’argent au Canada et aux États-Unis, dans le but de cibler les groupes de crime organisé colombiens, russes et asiatiques. Chris s’est infiltré dans des organisations criminelles d’Amérique du nord, de la Caraïbe, d’Amérique latine et d’Europe.En 1995, Chris est entré aux service des sciences judiciaires de KPMG, une firme de comptabilité internationale. En 1999, il a été nommé président du Service de renseignements pour KPMG Inc., chargé des opérations de recouvrement de biens, des enquêtes sur le crime organisé et le blanchiment d’argent et de leur prévention.

En 2004, Chris a démarré son service de consultation sur le crime et les risques qui en découlent à l’intention de clients sélectionnés aux niveaux national et international. En 2005, il a achevé une opération de dépistage de biens à l’extérieur du pays pour le Comité d’enquête indépendant au sein du Programme « Pétrole contre nourriture » des Nations Unies.


Chris est un conférencier au style controversé qui décrit le milieu des gangsters et des terroristes en expliquant les termes et en identifiant les personnages d’une façon à l’image de cet homme exceptionnel, voire en toute franchise et sans épargner les coups. Chris est un commentateur et conférencier médiatique populaire. Il a travaillé en tant que conseiller pour des documentaires et des longs-métrages portant sur le crime organisé, l’espionnage et le blanchiment d’argent. Il a récemment terminé le tournage de l’épisode pilote de FraudWatch, une émission de téléréalité qui examine l’actuelle épidémie de fraudes qui s’est répandue dans le monde entier.