Alain Nkoyock

Alain Nkoyock is a Data Scientist and Chief of the Software Products for Member States (SPMS) in the Enterprise Application Centre - Vienna in the U.N., where his group develops and manages R&D programs for law enforcement, prosecutorial, intelligence, revenue and customs, regulatory, anti-corruption, drugs control and asset forfeiture and recovery agencies, aligning technology and legal instruments, from many institutions including FATF, Egmont Group of FIUs, Europol, Interpol, EU’s FIUs Platform, UNCITRAL, and government entities of Member States. These programs provide opportunities for deep engagement between the U.N., Member States and other international and regional stakeholders in financial crime intelligence and investigations, corruption prevention and enforcement, and organized crime. Alain has created several new advanced evidence-based tools and models at UNODC, generating extrabudgetary resources from Member States. Alain is currently responsible for a yearly earmarked funding and he is developing new programs on cryptocurrencies, data science, big data, AI, machine/deep learning.

Prior to taking the leadership of SPMS, Alain was Chief of Corporate Networks Unit, a team that provides ICT services to UNOV/UNODC as well as other U.N. Secretariat departments/offices, co-located agencies and government offices of Member States located worldwide. Alain was also the Co-Chair of the Architecture Review Board (ARB), leading a group of 100+ experts to propose an Enterprise Architecture roadmap for the U.N. Secretariat.

As Senior ICT Coordinator of UNODC ITS, Alain was the cornerstone of the Nigeria Information Systems team and, as such, he has been instrumental to the successful delivery of the IT Component outputs of the 32-million USD project funded by the European Union in support of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Nigerian Judiciary. Alain has been leading the IT activities planning and implementation as well as successfully handling the important role of the management of the Nigeria IT team and working closely with the Nigerian government counterparts, and the projects customers. Alain has also been engaged in additional areas of assistance (Forensic and Automated Fingerprint Systems Lab and Judicial Research Centres Design and Deployment) to be provided to the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit, and the Nigerian Judiciary. Prior to this assignment, Alain has been working as an IT Manager in the United Nations International Computing Centre (UNICC) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) based in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) for 11 years. Alain has successfully managed many complex ICT projects in the U.N. Secretariat

Alain earned a Ph.D in Management from University of Phoenix in Arizona (U.S.), a MS in Software Engineering and BS in Mathematics, both from University of Yaoundé I (Cameroon). Alain has successfully mentored more than 30 Ph.D and Master' Students (2004-2019) with various academic institutions and in various topics. Alain is an editor in various scholarly journals and has contributed to book chapters, peer-reviewed articles, and published books. Alain is a member of the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS), the INTERPOL Working Group on Darknet and Cryptocurrency, and the Expert Group on Digital Economy Strategy of the Arab Economic Unity Council. Alain is involved in humanitarian projects to promote rural community development in Cameroon and engages the diaspora for Africa's development.

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Alain Nkoyock est Data Scientist, fonctionnaire auprès de l’ONU depuis 21 ans successivement comme Chef des systèmes informatiques du bureau de la Commission économique pour l'Afrique (CEA) en Afrique centrale (1998-2004), Coordinateur régional des systèmes informatiques des bureaux sous-régionaux de la CEA en Afrique (2004-2006), l’un des administrateurs du projet de l’Union Européenne d’appui au Gouvernement Fédéral du Nigeria de lutte contre la corruption, le crime organisé, le blanchiment d’argent et le financement du terrorisme (2006-2011), Chef informatique du Bureau des Nations Unies à Vienne, Autriche (2011-2015), et à partir de 2014, Chef de section en charge des innovations technologiques à l’Office des Nations Unies chargés de la drogue et des crimes. Pendant deux ans, Alain Nkoyock a co-présidé le Conseil du Secrétariat de l’ONU à New York chargé de proposer une stratégie d’innovation technologique pour le quinquennat 2013-2018.

Alain Nkoyock a un Doctorat en management de l’Université de Phoenix (Arizona, USA), une maitrise en Informatique et une licence en mathématiques de l’Université de Yaoundé I (Cameroun). Il est auteur ou coauteur de plusieurs modèles et outils technologiques pour l’aide à la lutte contre la corruption et les crimes organisés, le blanchiment d’argent, le financement du terrorisme et de nombreux rapports d'expertises sur les technologies pour le développement et six ouvrages, dans les domaines de management, gouvernance, leadership, développement et technologies informatiques. Il publie par ailleurs des chroniques régulières dans différents journaux et revues. Alain Nkoyock est membre de plusieurs réseaux et éditeur pour de nombreux journaux scientifiques et conférences internationales. Il enseigne régulièrement dans plusieurs universités.

Réussissant à combiner, recherche scientifique et applications pratiques, il détient une expérience significative sur les questions de science et technologie au profit de la gouvernance et du développement ; il est régulièrement invité par des médias nationaux ou internationaux.

Alain Nkoyock est également très impliqué dans les problématiques de développement dans son pays, le Cameroun, en tant que président-fondateur de l’Association Nkom (nkom.net) et du Think Tank CABAC (icabac.org).

Ses chroniques mensuelles sont disponibles sur son blog.nkoyock.net.