Alan Bacarese is a former United Kingdom Senior Crown Prosecutor. As a qualified Barrister-at-Law he joined the Crown Prosecution Service in 1988 during which time he spent years prosecuting criminal activity ranging from fraud to murder before transferring to CPS Headquarters in London in 2001 to undertake criminal justice policy work and specialised work on human rights.

In 2002 Alan joined the European and International Division of the CPS Policy Directorate, specialising in cross-boarder crime, and he assumed national policy leads in a number of international criminal justice fields including corruption. He was a member of the OECD’s Bribery Working Group from 2002 to 2007, and was actively involved in the preparation of the UK’s response to the OECD Phase 2 Evaluation. In 2006 he was the Lead Examiner in Poland’s Phase 2 OECD Evaluation. Alan has been involved in technical assistance work, on behalf of the OECD, in the Russian Federation, working directly with the Duma in 2005, on its anti-corruption legislation and initiatives and also in Latin America. He has also worked with the Inter-American Development Bank, the EU and the Council of Europe. Alan has also worked extensively in further anti-corruption work with a number of other jurisdictions such as Bulgaria, Romania, Poland and the Balkans. During 2006 he played a prominent role in assisting the UN on the preparation of a Technical Guide to the UN Convention against Corruption.

In May 2007 Alan was seconded by the Crown Prosecution Service to the newly created International Centre on Asset Recovery, based in Basle Switzerland, where he continued to provide legal and practical expertise in the growing field of international asset recovery concentrating on both legal and practical assistance to developing countries on specific cases.

In August 2011 Alan returned to the UK to join Peters & Peters, a leading criminal UK law firm, as Special Counsel. Alan continues to act as a consultant to ICAR.

He is a co-author of the leading UK legal text book on ”Corruption and Misuse of Public Office” (Oxford University Press 2011).