Joshua Tjeransen

Joshua Tjeransen is a PhD candidate at the Dickson Poon School of Law at King’s College London. His research examines financial innovation and financial crime, with a particular focus on central bank digital currencies.

Joshua is also a Consultant with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), where he manages the organisation’s counter-proliferation financing technical assistance programme. He also serves as a Parliamentary Researcher in the House of Lords for Baroness Bennett, focusing on illicit finance, and as a consultant to the Royal United Services Institute’s Centre for Financial Crime and Security, supporting capacity-building efforts to address proliferation financing.

Joshua also lectures at King’s College London, teaching on economic and financial crime models. Previously, Joshua was a Research Assistant at the Centre for Science and Security Studies at King’s College London, contributing to research and capacity-building on proliferation financing. Before entering academia and policy research, Joshua worked in financial compliance in the private sector and served for four years as a police officer. He holds a BA (Hons) in Criminology and Criminal Justice and an MSc in Countering Organised Crime and Terrorism from University College London.