David Nordell is founder and CEO of New Global Markets, a start-up company based in London and Israel that is developing a comprehensive customer intelligence system for financial institutions and other industries that are vulnerable to money laundering and terror financing.
After moving to Israel in 1980 from the United Kingdom, where he served in a reserve special forces unit, he worked as a journalist for both Israeli and foreign media, specialising in economics and finance, and subsequently became a consultant to the Israeli government, industry associations and high-tech companies, including serving as the first adviser to the Israeli government on Internet policy. He initiated a project for developing Europe-wide public policy on combatting terrorism within the constraints of free society, and consults on economic terrorism.
