Dr. Mark Lokanan
Dr. Mark Lokanan is a highly trained and skilled certified fraud examiner with expertise in financial forensics, forensic accounting, fraud examination, securities fraud, forensic data analysis, fraudulent financial statements, Benford Law for accounting fraud detection, anti-money laundering legislation and investigation, and forensic and investigative interviewing. Dr. Lokanan is one of the few scholars and practitioners in Canada with the requisite education, experience, expertise and publications in financial criminology, law, accounting and finance that qualify him as an expert in financial crimes and investigations.
Experience
Dr. Lokanan has worked and taught in the United States., the United Kingdom and Canada at the University of Guelph, San Diego State University, Simon Fraser University and in the Newcastle Business School. He has published in the areas of corporate accounting and securities fraud and regulatory compliance. Before working in academia, he worked for the Ministry of the Attorney General in Ontario as a fraud investigator, managing numerous projects and investigations from inception to completion, and devising and presenting reports and feedback to keep clients informed.
He is also the founder of Vedia Cloud Analytics (www.vedia.ca), an AI company leading research and innovation in data analytics and artificial intelligence with both industry and government institutions.
Education
Ph.D. Accounting for Financial Crimes with Analytics
Simon Fraser University
MA Sociology with Statistics
University of Guelph
MSc Computer Science (Applied Data Science)
Dublin
MCA Financial Crimes
University of San Diego
MSc Forensic Accounting
Portsmouth
BA in Sociology & Law
York University
Advanced Certificate in Accounting
McMaster University
Post Graduate Certificate, Artificial Intelligence
University of Texas
Certificate, Data Science & Machine Learning
MIT
Certificate, Data Analyst
Springboard/Microsoft
Professional Certificate, Machine Learning
IBM
Advanced Certificate, Forensic Accounting
BCIT