Online talk with Oliver Bullough
Journalist and author Oliver Bullough joins BEARR online on 20 October to discuss illicit wealth, kleptocracy and organised crime.
Tuesday, 20 October 2026, 18:00 BST | Online
This October, BEARR is delighted to welcome investigative journalist and award-winning author Oliver Bullough to discuss the themes arising from his latest book, ‘Everybody Loves Our Dollars’, and the global systems that allow illicit wealth to sustain corruption, kleptocracy and organised crime.
Bullough has spent two decades tracing what happens to stolen money after it leaves its country of origin. His work has particular relevance to the countries in which BEARR operates – and to the UK, where much of this wealth ultimately arrives.
Long-standing BEARR supporters may remember his excellent 2021 Summer Lecture, ‘The Londongrad Laundromat and its consequences’. This will be a great chance to hear how his research has developed, five years on.
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About the speaker
Oliver Bullough is an author and journalist from Wales, who specialises in writing about financial crime, often when it has links to the former Soviet Union. His journalism appears in the Guardian, the Sunday Times, the New York Times, on BBC radio and elsewhere. He is a contributing editor to Coda, an independent news site that does in depth reporting on a few key global stories.
His most recent book is Everybody Loves Our Dollars: How Money Laundering Won, a Sunday Times bestseller, which explores how global financial systems enable and sustain money laundering on an industrial scale. His previous book, Butler to the World: How Britain Became the Servant of Tycoons, Tax Dodgers, Kleptocrats and Criminals (2022), explored Britain’s role as a centre for enabling financial crime. It was longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year and was named a “best book of the year” by The Economist, The Times, The Sunday Times, The New Yorker and the Financial Times.
His earlier bestselling book, Moneyland: Why Thieves and Crooks Now Rule the World and How to Take It Back, explored global kleptocracy and was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize.
