Bertrand Monnet has been forced to snort cocaine and had a gun held to his head. Sean O’Neill meets the university tutor on a mission to understand the criminal economy. Bertrand Monnet has a ready supply of war stories: he has been held hostage by the Brazilian mafia, threatened by a machete-waving pirate in the...
Bertrand Monnet is a professor, but his field work and research is a little… unusual. Bertrand Monnet is a professor of economic crime at EDHEC Business School in Lille, France. But he’s not like the professors you had at university, quietly sinking five pints of ale in the local each night before plodding off home to watch Blackadder repeats....