Dr. Kelly Richmond Pope

Forensic accountant and professor Kelly Richmond Pope has dedicated her career to confronting the challenges of white-collar crime. A professor in the School of Accountancy and MIS at DePaul University, Dr. Pope uses the most innovative and cutting-edge outlets in edutainment to teach forensic accounting, managerial accounting, financial accounting, and ethical leadership. She is currently a co-host of the podcast True Crime with Kathy Lake and Kelly Pope on WGN Radio. A popular keynote speaker and international lecturer, Dr. Pope is a frequent adviser to firms about their compliance programs and training. She speaks regularly to regulators, including the Department of Justice and Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigations, companies such as GE, Kraft Heinz, Allstate, Microsoft, and LinkedIn, and a number of trade associations, including the AICPA and the Government Finance Officers Association. Using her research in forensic accounting and white-collar crime, Dr. Pope brings up-to-date facts about how good employees rationalize bad decisions, the importance of internal whistleblowing, and the value of ethical leadership. Her first feature-length film, All the Queen’s Horses, reveals how the largest municipal fraud perpetrator in the nation's history embezzled upwards of $53 million. Named HBO’s “Best Documentary of the Year,” the film was featured at a number of film festivals and was a 2014 finalist for a Tribeca Film Institute grant. During its debut week, the film was the #1 documentary on iTunes, Amazon Prime, Google Play and Direct TV. Dr. Pope’s first documentary, Crossing the Line: Ordinary People Committing Extraordinary Crimes, has won numerous national education innovation awards and is used in colleges, universities, and corporations throughout the country.