• CARLOS TAVARES is the Vice-Chairman of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), as well as Chairman of the Portuguese Securities Regulator (CMVM) since October 2005. Between 2007 and 2010, he was Vice-Chairman and then Chairman of the Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR). From 2010 until 2014 he also chaired: the European Regional Committee of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) and the Committee on Emerging Risks (CER) of IOSCO. He has over 30 years of experience in both the public and private sectors in economic/financial related fields. Mr. Tavares held the position of Head of the Bureau of European Policy Advisers in the European Commission, and was also Minister of the Economy, under the José Manuel Durão Barroso premiership
• In the private sector, Carlos Tavares held senior positions in the executive boards of the following banking institutions: Banco Português do Atlântico, Banco Santander de Negócios, Chemical Finance Portugal, Banco Pinto e Sotto Mayor, Banco Totta Açores, Banco CISF (BCP Group). Carlos Tavares was also Chairman of the Board of Directors of Banco Nacional Ultramarino and Vice-Chairman of Caixa Geral de Depósitos, both state-owned banks. In the earlier years of his career he held several managerial positions at the Ministry of Finance and was Secretary of State for the Treasury under the Cavaco Silva premiership. He also headed the macroeconomic division of the Research Department of Banco Português do Atlântico.
• Chairs the Crime, Security and Justice Research Theme. President, US National White-Collar Crime Research Consortium.
• Carlos Tavares is an economics graduate of the Universidade do Porto where he was a lecturer and between 2009 and 2015 he was a member of its Board of Trustees.

• International Association for the Study of Organized Crime (IASOC)
• 2013 Distinguished Scholar Award.
• Chairs the Crime, Security and Justice Research Theme. President, US National White-Collar Crime Research Consortium.
• Member, Group of Experts on Corruption, European Commission. Member, US National Academy of Sciences Committee, Illicit Tobacco Market: Collection and Analysis of the International Experience.

Some (recent) selected publications

• Middleton, D. and Levi, M. 2015. Let sleeping lawyers lie: organized crime, lawyers and the regulation of legal services. British Journal of Criminology (10.1093/bjc/azv001)
• Levi, M. and Williams, M. L. 2013. Multi-agency partnerships in cybercrime reduction: Mapping the UK information assurance network cooperation space. Information Management & Computer Security 21(5), pp. 420-443. (10.1108/IMCS-04-2013-0027)
• Levi, M. 2013. Who are the criminals?: The politics of crime policy from the age of Roosevelt to the age of Reagan [Commentary]. Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews 42(5), pp. 683-686. (10.1177/0094306113499534d)
• Levi, M. and Horlick-Jones, T. E. 2013. Interpreting the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear incident: some questions for corporate criminology. Crime, Law and Social Change 59(5), pp. 487-500. (10.1007/s10611-013-9432-3)
• Doig, A. and Levi, M. 2013. A case of arrested development? Delivering the UK National Fraud Strategy within competing policing policy priorities. Public Money and Management 33(2), pp. 145-152. (10.1080/09540962.2013.763435)
• Schuchter, A. and Levi, M. 2013. The fraud triangle revisited. Security Journal (10.1057/sj.2013.1)