Patrick Cunningham

Pat has been involved in crime and fraud prevention for more than 40 years. He is currently the

Executive Director of the South African Fraud Prevention Service. He has held this position since September 2000 when he was appointed to start the service by the major banking and retail credit grantors in South Africa.

Pat holds a degree in law, an associate degree in Risk Management and is a Fellow of The Society of Risk Managers(South Africa). He has also attended Senior Management programmes at Stellenbosch University Business School.

He has been a guest lecturer on Corporate Governance at the UNISA Department of Business Management Summer School on several occasions and has presented and chaired various seminars and conferences on Fraud Prevention, Risk Management and Corporate Governance in London, Sydney, Nairobi, Lusaka, Johannesburg, Windhoek, Gaberone and Cape Town. In December 2007 he presented a paper on identity crime in the Southern African context at the International Scientific and Professional Advisory Council of the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme in Courmayeur, Italy.