Nathan Lynch is a writer and international speaker who has spent two decades investigating the hidden world of dark money that fuels organised crime, corruption and violent extremism around the globe. His work peels back the layers of complex financial crime schemes.

He is an international expert in money laundering, organised crime and the financing of global terrorism. Between 2010 and 2024 Nathan led Thomson Reuters’ financial crime and risk team across the Asia-Pacific region.

He has worked with government agencies and police in Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal, Mongolia, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Pakistan, the United Arab Emirates, and Jordan, as an expert in the use of financial intelligence to tackle cross-border financial crime syndicates. 

Nathan’s non-fiction book, ‘The Lucky Laundry’, explained how the Aussie property market became a lucrative laundromat for some of the world’s dirtiest cash. He was recognised with Macquarie University’s Financial Crime Fighter of the Year award in 2022 for his work advocating for federal law reform to combat serious and organised crime in Australia.

Nathan is certified by the US Department of Justice's elite CCIPS Cybercrime Laboratory and is a program expert with the Asian Development Bank, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), and the Financial Services Volunteer Corps, which provide support to developing countries to help them combat the scourges of money laundering and other serious financial crimes.

He has worked as a screenwriter on Paramount and Stan’s financial crime comedy series, Population 11, which followed a fictional money laundering trail from the US to outback Australia. 

Personal life: Nathan has spent many years living and surfing in Yallingup, and has written about surf culture for publications such as Tracks, White Horses and Stab Magazine. He has played a key role in preserving the rich history of surfing in the WA south-west cape region, which was incorporated into the book Surfing Down South, published by Margaret River Press in 2014.

He is also the founder of West Coast eFoil, which has introduced hundreds of people to the sport of e-foiling. He is a strong believer in the power of the ocean to inspire, energise, and transcend trauma. He has witnessed transformations in the ocean involving cancer survivors, octogenarian former surfers, special forces war veterans, recovering addicts, and at-risk teenagers.