About Mr. Peter M. German MA, LL.B., LL.M.

A member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for 29 years, Assistant Commissioner German has worked on uniform and plainclothes duties across Canada. He was assigned to Commercial Crime Sections at Vancouver and Ottawa, where he was a Detective Inspector charged with major fraud and corruption investigations. Between 2002 and 2005, he was the RCMP's Director General of Financial Crime, responsible for the Force's commercial crime, market enforcement and money laundering programs.

Assistant Commissioner German is presently the RCMP's District Commander for the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, serving 1.6 million people in 29 communities, with approximately 3000 employees.
In that capacity, he had responsibility for the Urban Domain at the 2010 Winter Olympics.

A lawyer and member of the Ontario and British Columbia bars, he previously practiced law privately, including as a Crown prosecutor and criminal defence counsel. He holds graduate degrees in law and political science and is the author of Proceeds of Crime, a legal text devoted entirely to proceeds of crime and money laundering. He is a frequent lecturer in Canada and abroad and has served as a Canadian delegate to various international forums, including the OECD, the FATF, the IACP, the UN Convention on Corruption, the Global Forum on Corruption, and was a Canadian evaluator of the UK's compliance with the OECD's Anti-Bribery Convention.

Assistant Commissioner German is an adjunct professor of law at the University of British Columbia, and of criminal justice at the University College of the Fraser Valley. He is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Financial Crime Studies at the Levin School of Law, University of Florida. He is the recipient of the RCMP Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, and clasp, the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Commemorative Medal, and is an Officer of the Order of Merit of Police.