Brigitte Unger, born in Austria in 1955, has studied economics at the Vienna University of Economics and at the Wirtschaftsuniversitaet Wien, where she also became professor. Since 2002 she holds the chair of Economics of the Public Sector at the Utrecht University School of Economics. From 2012 till 2015 Brigitte Unger was also Director of the Institute of Economics and Social Sciences (WSI), in Düsseldorf. Her publications are on Corporatism, Economic Policy, Tax Competition and Money Laundering. She has measured Money Laundering for the Netherlands in 2006, has published three books with Edward Elgar on Money Laundering and several academic articles on it. Furthermore, she is consultant of the Dutch Ministry of Finance, the UNODC, the EU and EUROSTAT on Money Laundering issues.

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