Nickolas Harris
TCM Certified Wine Authenticator, Zürich, Switzerland
Certified Fraud Examiner, ACFE
Qualified Forensic Accountant
Licensed private investigator in multiple jurisdictions
Nick is a forensic professional with over 15 years’ experience in the prevention, detection and response to fraud, corruption and misconduct. He is currently a Director in EY’s Forensic & Integrity Services team based in Zürich, Switzerland.
Prior to joining EY Forensics in 2012 in Melbourne, Nick worked for the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission, a government law enforcement agency, in their financial crime division. He is a qualified forensic accountant, Certified Fraud Examiner, and since 2025 is a TCM Certified Wine Authenticator.
Nick has been around wine from a young age, having grown up close to vineyards in Tasmania, Australia. He developed a passion for wine after a close family friend and winemaker opened a birth-year Burgundy with him.
After attending a wine fraud and counterfeiting presentation and training by Maureen Downey, the world’s pre-eminent expert in wine fraud, in Hong Kong in 2019, Nick decided to combine his passion with his profession when he was invited to join the TCM Wine Authenticator program. Over the past four years, he has gained extensive experience performing authentications across Europe, Asia-Pacific and the United States.