Andrew Dornbierer is Head of Policy and Research at the Basel Institute's International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR). He was promoted to the position in March 2025, having previously served as Senior Specialist, Asset Recovery.

Since joining the Basel Institute in 2012, Andrew has worked extensively on financial investigation strategies, illicit enrichment-focused case strategies, and international cooperation in corruption and money laundering investigations.

He is a recognised international expert on illicit enrichment (unexplained wealth) legislation and the author of the 2021 book Illicit Enrichment: A Guide to Laws Targeting Unexplained Wealth, published in open-access format in English, French and Spanish.

Andrew is also a Certified Fraud Examiner, having completed the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners exams in 2023.

Andrew was admitted as a lawyer of the Supreme Court of Western Australia in 2012 and has lived and worked both in Switzerland and in Tanzania, where he provided hands-on mentoring to practitioners at the country's primary anti-corruption agency.