Gordon Hook is an independent AML/CFT consultant providing legal and policy advice to governments in the Asia-Pacific region. He is the former Executive Secretary of the Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering (APG) where he worked from 2006 to 2024. In that role he supported the APG Co-Chairs, Governance Committee and membership across numerous work programmes. He also planned and participated in 14 mutual evaluations, including joint evaluations with the FATF. From 2021- 2023 he participated as a trust law expert with the FATF’s Recommendation 25 review project.
Prior to his APG appointment he worked at New Zealand’s Ministry of Justice as the Manager of the Criminal and International Law team which included leading New Zealand’s AML/CFT reform programme. In 2006 he participated as a legal expert in the OECD’s Foreign Bribery evaluation of Ireland.
Gordon also practiced criminal law as both a prosecutor and defence counsel in Canada in the 1980s and 1990s as a partner in a law firm in Winnipeg,
Gordon Hook a Barrister and Solicitor of the Manitoba King’s Bench (Canada) and the High Court of New Zealand. He holds a LL.B. from Dalhousie University, an LL.M. from the University of Sydney and a Ph.D. (in law) from Victoria University of Wellington. He also holds B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Manitoba in Canada. He has published numerous articles in books, law journals and magazines on money laundering and terrorist financing including the jointly authored book, Corporate and Trust Structures: Legal and Illegal Dimensions published by Australian Scholarly Publications (2018). He has also lectured at numerous international conferences on international law and AML/CFT over 22 years.