Dr JuIie Beesley has recently pivoted from a successful corporate career to pursue academic interests. At the heart of Julie's DNA is the pursuit of new knowledge by thinking differently.

As demonstrated by her own professional qualifications and achievements in academia, she is a natural champion of continuous learning and abstract thinking.  While her current studies focus on graphology (handwriting analysis), she has recently accepted a place at Kings College London to study applied Neuroscience (Master's degree).  Handwriting is as unique as our DNA and is often called brain writing as it involves signals from the brain.  Her research interests include brain connectivity and neural networks when writing by hand.  She is also a scholar of criminology and complexity science with an interest in criminological theory and the criminal brain. 

Julie holds degrees in Physics (Imperial College, London University) and Criminology (Master's and Doctorate, Sydney Law School, Sydney University).  Her doctoral thesis is in organised crime and terrorism and comprises the development of a new criminological model to apply complexity science, including chaos theory, to complex criminological phenomena with real-world practical application. She is also a fellow chartered accountant, certified fraud examiner and certified anti-money laundering specialist.

She is a former global banking executive and big four consulting partner with over three decades in the corporate world.  She specialised predominately in the financial services sector in audit, risk and compliance, with deep expertise in financial crime and cross-border forensic investigations.  She worked extensively as a trusted advisor with government and industry bodies, including regulators, intelligence agencies and law enforcement. As a leader, she successfully created, optimised and led large complex corporate teams and readily embraced digital change and new technologies. In every role undertaken, Julie rose to the top of her profession, implemented step change and increased focus, energy and momentum at all levels.  

During her corporate career, she worked in over 30 countries and lived in the UK, the US, Switzerland and Australia.  She currently resides in the UK.