Alan Doig is currently Professor of Public Services Management and head of the Fraud Management Studies Unit at the Teesside Business School. His areas of teaching and research are public services management, where he specialises in the impact of change and the issues of governance, and fraud management where he specialises in the operational and organizational issues relating to prevention, detection and investigation of fraud and corruption. The Unit delivers the UK’s only postgraduate MA Fraud Management programme for police, public and private sectors organizations.

He is a member of a number of public organizations, including: Group of Specialists on Public Ethics at Local Level, Steering Committee on Local and Regional Democracy, Council of Europe.

He is a Board member of the Standards Board for England, the public body responsible for policing the code of conduct for elected representatives at local level and developing an ethical environment.

His recent research includes the 2000 Police Fraud Squad Survey, a report to the ABI on insurance fraud, a report on joined-up fraud for the NAO and an 18-country study on corruption for the Dutch government. Last year he was the project leader for a £1.2 miilion anti-corruption programme in Lithuania funded by the EU.