Meet, Stephen Reimer

Stephen Reimer is a Research Fellow at RUSI’s Centre for Financial Crime & Security Studies, where he leads the Threat Finance cluster with a focus on countering the financing of terrorism. His recent work has focused on self-activating terrorism finance in Europe, the national security threats posed by illicit finance, and assessing risk of terrorism financing abuse in the not-for-profit sector. He is also interested in corporate transparency and is developing new research on the misuse of the FATF standards to erode democracy and embolden authoritarian regimes.