Pierre Skorich

Pierre Skorich is the Acting Assistant Secretary of Fraud Prevention and Anti-Corruption in the Attorney-General’s Department.

He has extensive experience across many corporate and policy domains including fraud control and anti-corruption, risk management, national security, intelligence, climate change and migration across ten Commonwealth Public Sector agencies including the Attorney-General’s Department, Department of Agriculture, Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, Department of Finance, former Department of Immigration and Border Protection, Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, the Clean Energy Regulator, the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC) and the Australian Federal Police.

In 2016, he received an Australia Day Medallion for coordinating the establishment of the Fintel Alliance a world-first private-public partnership launched by AUSTRAC to combat money laundering and terrorism financing.

He also holds an honorary position at the Australian National University’s Centre for Social Research and Methods, collaborating on crime prevention, insider threat prevention and anti-corruption. He is the lead author of the upcoming book Insider Threat: A Systemic Approach.