Ingrida Kerušauskaitė is a researcher and practitioner from Lithuania. She works with governments, foundations, multilateral organisations and the private sector on anti-corruption and countering illicit finance and is a senior research fellow at the Institute of Law, Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences.

Her work is currently focused on geopolitical strategic corruption – or the use of corruption for geo-political purposes, deconstruction of the concept of political will in anti-corruption work, and risk-based supervision of anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism.

Ingrida has led multi-million-pound projects in a range of environments from the Caribbean to Eastern, Western and Southern Africa to Eastern and Western Europe, the Balkans, the Middle East and China. She has supported governments’, law enforcement, multilateral organisations’ and financial sector’s (large banks and real estate agencies to small fin-techs) anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT), anti-bribery and corruption and broader compliance framework design and roll-out.

Ingrida has taught at the University of Cambridge from 2013-2023, focusing on justice and development, rule of law and corruption. She has published a book on international development and anti-corruption with Routledge in 2018 and various academic articles. In addition to academic work, her recent projects include risk-based AML/CFT supervision research and convening work with the Gates Foundation and an evaluation of Swiss-funded anti-corruption work for the International Monetary Fund (IMF).