Liliya Gelemerova - Senior Investigator
Liliya Gelemerova joins Nardello & Co. as a Senior Investigator. Lily is an acknowledged expert in conducting investigations throughout the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Fluent in Russian, Bulgarian, German and English, Lily has a strong background in financial intelligence that includes many years of training in anti-money laundering practices. She has worked on a wide range of pre-joint venture due diligence and investigation projects, specifically in Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
Lily has worked in London, Berlin and Sofia. Prior to joining Nardello & Co., Lily worked as an investigator and senior associate for two London-based risk management consultancy firms. She has also worked as a research analyst at the global anti-corruption organization, Transparency International, at its Secretariat in Berlin, as well as for the Confederation of British Industry.
In addition, Lily has worked as Head of International Contacts and Legal Coordination for the Bulgarian Financial Intelligence Agency (FIA), where she was responsible for the international cooperation work on cross-border crime and money laundering, including intelligence protocols on the tracing and analysis of business associations and cross-border transactions.
Liliya Gelemerova is a graduate of the University of National and World Economy in Sofia, Bulgaria and the British Studies Centre at the Humboldt University in Berlin. She is currently finishing her doctorate on Global Money Laundering at the Law Faculty of the Tilburg University in the Netherlands.