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Jeffrey Robinson
Winner of the coveted Benedictine Award for after dinner speaking, JEFFREY ROBINSON is the American born, British based international best-selling author of 22 books, and a recognised expert and excellent conference speaker on organised crime and money laundering.
The Laundrymen and Money Laundering
A native New Yorker who has been living in Europe for 35 years, Robinson is perhaps best known for his 1995 investigative tour de force, The Laundrymen, in which he uncovered the true extent of global money laundering. The book reveals how hundreds of billions of dirty dollars are derived mainly from the drug trade, then reinvested throughout the world by otherwise legitimate businessmen, lawyers, accountants and bankers. Considered the definitive book on the subject, and now used in universities and law schools as a text, Business Week described it as, “An indictment of governments and banks.”
Further Adventures into Organised Crime
A headline-maker in 14 countries around the world, Robinson scripted and hosted several television documentaries on the back of The Laundrymen, then followed that success, three years later, with The Merger - How Organised Crime is Taking Over The World. In this book, Robinson exposes the shocking and disturbing lengths that transnational organised criminals go in order to build multi-national corporations and explains how organised crime has became the major beneficiary of globalisation.
In 1993, Robinson published yet another book in this series: The Sink, documenting the birth and growth of crime, terrorism and dirty money in the offshore world. Robinson details the extent to which criminals and global terrorists have subverted the legitimate financial world to become, what he describes as, “the most important special interest groups on the planet.”
He is currently at work on a major book about fraud and a television series to go along with it.
Jeffrey's Biography
A graduate of Temple University in Philadelphia, and a veteran of the United States Air Force during the Vietnam War, when Robinson’s military obligation was completed at the end of 1970, he took up residence in a small village in the south of France. Using that as his base, he vagabonded around the world, writing articles and short stories for leading North American and British periodicals. His magazine credits include Playboy, McCalls, Barrons, Gourmet, True, Ambassador, Mademoiselle, Reader’s Digest and TV Guide; his newspaper credits include The Washington Post, The San Francisco Examiner, The Christian Science Monitor and The International Herald Tribune (for which he was a major contributor of features during the 1970s). In Britain his feature journalism continues to appear in The Times, Express, Sunday Times, Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Independent and Mail on Sunday, among others.
With more than 600 published stories and articles to his credit, Robinson moved to the UK in 1982 to concentrate on writing books.
Between 1986-1994, he published three major best-selling biographies: Yamani - The Inside Story, described by the Wall Street Journal as the best book ever written about the oil industry; Rainier & Grace, the only legitimate biography ever written about, and with the co-operation of, Monaco’s sovereign family; and Bardot - Two Lives, also unique in that it was written with the co-operation of French icon Brigitte Bardot.
His other non-fiction titles include: The Risk Takers (his first UK best seller) which highlighted the high-flyers of City finance, recounting their tales of money, ego and power; The Minus Millionaires, the off-beat sequel to Risk Takers, in which he told stories about ‘risk takers’ who had lost fortunes; The End of the American Century, for which Robinson gained access to secret archives in the former Soviet Union to reveal the hidden agendas of the Cold War; The Hotel, stories gathered over five months as a fly on the wall in what is, arguably, the best hotel in the world; The Manipulators - A Conspiracy to Make Us Buy, exposing the marketing world’s “hidden persuaders” 40 years after Vance Packard; and Prescription Games, a damning insider’s view of the global pharmaceutical industry, where science and marketing are deliberately kept apart and where, all too often, profit dictates who lives and who dies.
In addition to five much-praised novels: Pietrov and Other Games, The Ginger Jar, The Margin of the Bulls, The Monk’s Disciples and A True and Perfect Knight, his British crime drama series, Tightrope, is in pre-production with Yorkshire Television. Other television/film projects include Sister Banjo, Notice of Claim, Point of No Return and The Confession. His latest book, written with an old college friend, Joseph Petro, is an account of Petro’s years as head of the detail guarding Ronald Reagan: Standing Next to History - An Agent’s Life Inside the Secret Service.
Television, Radio and Public Speaking
A frequent guest on TV and radio on both sides of the Atlantic, appearances over the past few years include CNN, Fox News, BBC Breakfast News, BBC Newsnight, ITN, Channel 4 News, CNBC, Sky News, BBC World and Bloomberg. Robinson is a popular after-dinner speaker in Europe and North America, and a winner of the coveted Benedictine Award, as 1990 After-Dinner Speaker of the Year.
”Sensational... a great hit with our customers and staff”.
Allied Irish Bank
”Made the conference come alive... a special occasion for our customers”.
Newbridge Networks
”Couldn't have been better - exactly right”.
British Telecom
