ABOUT David J. O’Regan, LITTD

I am a Fellow of the

Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales 

and I earned a doctorate in accounting and finance from the

University of Liverpool.

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I have a quarter-century of professional experience in auditing in the United Nations system. I'm proud to have worked in the secretariat of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, taking part in the OPCW’s collective effort in winning the Nobel Peace Prize.  

I am currently Auditor General to the

Pan American Health Organization 

in Washington D.C., and I shall be taking early retirement in May 2026 to focus full-time on writing.

My interests include: 

(1) Protecting public finances from corruption and maladministration. 

(2) Bribery - its nature, its damaging effects on institutional integrity, and the challenges of both prevention and detection.

(3) The limitations of current auditing conceptual models to combat fraud. 

(4) What traditional Indic wisdom can teach the West.

My published work stretches back to the turn of the millennium. My latest books are The Closing of the Auditor's Mind? (Routledge/CRC Press, 2025) and Bribery Humanized (Columbia Business School Publishing, 

forthcoming in 2026).