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Alessandro (Alex) Volcic is a Managing Director in Kroll’s Investigations and Disputes practice and head of the firm’s Moscow office. Alex leads Kroll's Russia and CIS team and serves clients across Central and Eastern Europe as well as the Nordics. He manages a wide range of investigations for corporates and financial institutions, and their advisers, including pre-transactional due diligence, background investigations, market entry studies, internal corruption and bribery investigations, forensic accounting, compliance-driven third party screenings, and asset traces. Since joining Kroll in 2004, Alex has worked throughout EMEA on numerous due diligence assignments, internal fraud investigations, multijurisdictional asset tracing exercises, and regulatory investigations. He is fluent in English, Russian, German, Italian, and French, and has experience with on-the-ground assignments in Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, Austria, Germany, other European countries, and in the Middle East. In 2011, Alex left Kroll for one year to work in BP PLC’s Fraud and Misconduct Investigations team with a focus on the Caspian region. Prior to joining Kroll, Alex worked in a public affairs consultancy, conducting research and lobbying European politicians. He has also taught Russian politics at the London School of Economics.