Peter Humphrey
Managing Director of ChinaWhys

Mr. Peter Humphrey is the founder and managing director of ChinaWhys. He has spent 35 years dealing with China and Eastern European countries. After two decades as a foreign correspondent in Asia, Eastern Europe and the Balkans, he has spent the past 11 years as a risk management specialist and corporate detective focused on white-collar crime prevention, fraud investigation and crisis mitigation for multinationals in Asia.

Before founding his practice, Peter had served as China country manager for a large US risk consultancy and head of China investigations at PricewaterhouseCoopers as well as undertaking a number of humanitarian assignments.

Peter has a thorough knowledge of the China operating environment and is an authority on fraud and supply chain risks. He resolves critical problems for Fortune 500 companies and works closely with leading international and Chinese law firms.

His successes have included uncovering significant FCPA risks in contemplated M&A projects for leading multinational corporations, identifying fraudulent publicly-listed stocks, neutralizing a counterfeit-and-fraud syndicate that hijacked the business of a global consumer goods manufacturer, eliminating fraud from the buying operation of a leading megastore chain, uncovering fraudulent JV deals for a global appliances manufacturer, and orchestrating the resolution of a transnational kidnapping in China.

Peter holds an Honours degree in Oriental Studies from Durham University England and has been a fellow of Harvard University. He is fluent in mandarin Chinese and reads and writes Chinese and other foreign languages.

He is a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) and member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), as well as being the President of the ACFE in China. He is a member of the American Society for Industrial Security and many international chambers of commerce. Peter is also active in charity and is Vice-President of the Rotary Club of Beijing.