The APG Executive Secretary is Dr Gordon Hook. Gordon Hook was a partner in a law firm in Winnipeg, Canada in the 1980s and 1990s focusing on criminal trial work. He also served in the Royal Canadian Navy and the Royal New Zealand Navy as a senior legal officer which included a 5-month tour in the Persian Gulf from 2002-2003 as the task force legal adviser to a multi-national task force. He then worked Manager of Criminal and International Law with the New Zealand Ministry of Justice, which included responsibility AML/CFT policy. He was appointed to his current position in the APG in 2006.
Gordon Hook is a Barrister and Solicitor of the Manitoba Queen’s Bench (Canada) and the High Court of New Zealand. He has a BA and MA from the University of Manitoba (Canada); a LLB from Dalhousie University (Canada) and a PhD (Law) from Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand). He has published and edited a number of articles on AML/CFT and other legal topics in books, law journals and magazines including the book co-authored and edited with David Chaikin, Corporate and Trust Structures: Legal and Illegal Dimensions (Australian Scholarly Publications, 2018) and most recently Terrorist Financing: Global Policy Challenges and Initiatives in 2020, in Australian Counter-Terrorism Yearbook 2020 (Australian Strategic Policy Institute, 2021).
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