Louis de Koker holds a chair in law at the La Trobe Law School (Australia) where he is the Associate Dean: Research and Industry Engagement and coordinator of the La Trobe LawTech team. Since 2009 he is also the senior financial crime policy consultant to the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP), an independent think tank housed at the World Bank promoting financial inclusion. Louis is currently also an Extraordinary Professor in the Department of Commercial and Labour Law of the University of the Western Cape.

Louis, the former director of the Centre for the Study of Economic Crime of the University of Johannesburg, has  advised on a range of financial crime laws and regulations in countries such as Jordan, Fiji, Kyrgyzstan, Namibia, South Africa, Samoa, Uganda, and Vietnam and his research has been cited in publications of the various international bodies including the World Bank, IMF, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. He was a member of a World Bank team that researched financial crime controls relating to mobile money, a member of the core team that designed the World Bank tool for national money laundering risk assessment and a member of FATF project groups that drafted their guidance papers on aligning financial inclusion and financial integrity and digital identity guidance. Recent books include Goldbarsht and De Koker (eds) Financial Technology and the Law: Combating Financial Crime (Springer, 2022) and De Koker et al Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing: Law and Compliance in South Africa (LexisNexis South Africa, 2024).