Dr JuIie Beesley has recently pivoted from a successful corporate career to pursue academic interests. As demonstrated by her own professional qualifications and achievements in academia, she is a natural champion of continuous learning, thinking differently and enjoys making the complex simple.

Her current studies focus on graphology, handwriting analysis, including applied psychology. Handwriting is as unique as our DNA and is often called brain writing as it involves signals from the brain. Each person’s handwriting reflects their individual characteristics and personality traits; it also offers insights into the writer’s state of mind and wellbeing. She is particularly interested in neuroscience, handwriting and the criminal brain. 

She holds degrees in physics (Imperial College, London University) and criminology (master 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 built key relationships, 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. 

At the heart of Julie's DNA is the pursuit of knowledge and a love of art and science.