Dr. Campbell is an interdisciplinary academic and policy expert with specialised expertise in corruption, anti‑corruption, illicit finance, and serious and organised crime, with a primary regional focus on the Caribbean. She currently serves as an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of the West Indies (UWI) Global Campus and as a Contributing Consultant to Transparency International. Her work is grounded in International Political Economy, Risk Management and Compliance, Rule of Law, and Global Governance. She is fully independent and has no professional, financial, or institutional affiliations that would impair her objectivity as an Expert Witness.
She holds a PhD with distinction in Rule of Law and Global Governance from the University of Salamanca, Spain. Her doctoral research examined money laundering, terrorist financing, and tax evasion in Caribbean offshore financial centres and resulted in a peer‑reviewed monograph published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2021. She has since authored and contributed to numerous academic articles, policy papers, special reports, and country analyses published across Europe, the United Kingdom, and the Caribbean.
Dr. Campbell possesses in‑depth country and regional expertise across the Caribbean, with a particular emphasis on CARICOM member states and Caribbean offshore financial centres. Her analytical work focuses on public‑sector corruption, illicit financial flows, serious and organised crime, governance fragilities, and the effectiveness of anti‑corruption and anti‑financial‑crime frameworks.
Her country expertise includes, inter alia: Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Dominica, Guyana, Jamaica, St. Lucia, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago. She has conducted both comparative and jurisdiction‑specific assessments examining corruption risks, money laundering typologies, organised crime enablers, institutional weaknesses, regulatory gaps, and compliance with international standards. Her work also evaluates regional cooperation mechanisms within CARICOM and the interaction between domestic governance, international policy initiatives, and geopolitical pressures affecting the Caribbean region.
Dr. Campbell has over ten years of combined academic and applied research experience in the areas of corruption, rule of law, global governance, and illicit finance. This includes two years of postgraduate research in the legal and economic aspects of corruption, three years of doctoral research, and more than six years of postdoctoral research and policy analysis. Since completing her PhD in July 2019, she has produced ten comprehensive country analysis reports, alongside numerous peer‑reviewed publications, policy papers, scoping studies, and technical research outputs.
As a Contributing Consultant to Transparency International and Basel Institute of Governance, she has authored and co‑authored regional and country‑level studies on corruption and anti‑corruption frameworks, mapped illicit finance risks, assessed institutional capacities, and developed policy recommendations aligned with international benchmarks. In addition to her research and expert work, she lectures regularly at undergraduate level in International Political Economy, comparative politics, international relations of the Caribbean, banking and finance, and risk analysis and management, and participates actively in academic conferences and expert policy forums within the Caribbean region.
Peer-Reviewed Reports:
- “Mapping of Anti-Corruption and Illicit Finance Initiatives Among CARICOM
Member States” (Transparency International, March 2024)
- “Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Dominica, Guyana, Jamaica, St.
Lucia, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and
Tobago: Overview of Corruption, Anti-Corruption and Illicit Finance”
(Transparency International, April 2024)
- Case study brief on the intersection of politics, organised crime and corruption in Guyana (Basel Institute of Governance, March 9, 2026)
- Case study brief on the intersection of politics, organised crime and corruption in Trinidad & Tobago, (Basel Institute of Governance, March 16, 2026).
- Case study brief on the intersection of politics, organised crime and corruption in Jamaica (Basel Institute of Governance, March 23, 2026)
- Case study brief on the intersection of politics, organised crime and corruption in the BVI (Basel Institute of Governance, March 31, 2026)
Book:
- Campbell, Aretha M. Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Tax Evasion:
The Consequences of International Policy Initiatives on Offshore Financial
Centres in the Caribbean. Palgrave Macmillan, Switzerland, October 2021.
Book Chapters:
- Multiple chapters in Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Tax Evasion
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), including:
- Introduction
- Offshore Financial Centres in the Caribbean
- The Problems and Dimensions of Money Laundering and Terrorist
Financing
- The Problems and Dimensions of Tax Evasion
- The International Solution to Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing
- The International Solution to Tax Evasion
- The Impact of International Policy Initiatives Against Money Laundering
and Terrorist Financing on the Legislative Systems and Institutions of
- Offshore Financial Centers in the Caribbean
- The Impact of International Policy Initiatives Against Tax Evasion on
the Legislative Systems and Institutions of Offshore Financial Centers
in the Caribbean
- (with Don D. Marshall) The Consequences of International Policy
Initiatives Against Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Tax
Evasion on Offshore Financial Centres in the Caribbean
Conference Publication:
- Campbell, Aretha M. “Assessing the Costs and Outputs of AML Initiatives in
Small Caribbean States.” Central Bank of The Bahamas, January 2023.
Article:
- Maynard, Peter D., & Campbell, Aretha M. “Sovereignty Amidst International
Policy Initiatives Against Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Tax
Evasion: The Case of The Bahamas.” Journal of The Commonwealth Lawyers
Association, UK, Vol 30, No. 2, August 2020.
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