Founder & Executive Director, CINTOC

Gretchen’s expertise is in researching and mapping transnational organized crime networks, and pinpointing ways to defeat them. She has worked with U.S. Central Command and U.S. Special Operations Command as well as multiple conservation groups. Gretchen co-chaired an OECD Task Force on flighting wildlife crime, and authored the groundbreaking book, Seeds of Terror, about the Taliban’s role in the Afghan heroin trade…

Founder & Board Member, The Day After Project

Amr was educated in the UK, reading Archaeology of Western Asiatics at University College, London (UCL), and graduating with a doctoral degree in 1991. He was the founder and Director of the Scientific and Conservation Laboratories at the General Department of Antiquities and Museums (1999-2004) and taught at the University of Damascus until 2006…

Director of Analysis, CINTOC

Kathleen is a leading authority on transnational organized crime networks in sub-Saharan Africa. She has developed and provided on-the-job training to analysts across the continent, instructing them in complex link and network analysis. Previously, Kathleen consulted to the U.S. intelligence, law enforcement, and military communities. Her work focused on illicit networks, money laundering and financial analytic…

Anthropologist & Research Analyst

Katie is an anthropologist and research analyst and an affiliated researcher with The Day After Heritage Protection Initiative (TDA-HPI). Her work focuses on the trafficking and destruction of cultural property and its connections to transnational crime and terrorism in the Middle East and North Africa. Katie focuses on the role of social media and new technologies in monitoring and recording trafficking in nations in crisis…

Associate Professor & Expert Researcher

Shawn is an assistant professor in the Department of History at Carleton University. He teaches classes on digital history and its methodologies, and ancient history. He received his Ph.D. in Archaeology from the School of Human and Environmental Sciences at the University of Reading in 2002. In the intervening years, he worked professionally as a heritage consultant, a teacher, and an entrepreneur…

After completing a Ph.D. in orchid conservation at the University of Aberdeen, Dave spent over 8 years working as an orchid specialist at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. This role included giving expert opinion on trade, evidence in court and researching online trade. During this time he also held the Hardy Fellowship in Conservation Biology at Harvard University. In 2010 Dave moved to the Durrell Institute of Conservation …

Director, Global Health Policy Institute

Tim Ken Mackey is the Director of the Global Health Policy Institute, an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Global Public Health at UC San Diego School of Medicine, the Director of Healthcare Research and Policy at UC San Diego – Extension, and is the Director for Healthcare Research and Policy at UC San Diego – Extension. He holds a …

Independent Wildlife Trade Investigator

Dan studied anthropology and archaeology at the University of California, Berkeley, and at the University of Aix-Marseille in France, obtaining his Ph.D. in 1981, and has lectured at UC Berkeley, University of Nairobi, University of Paris X and Oxford University, focusing on past and present human ecology and evolution…

Investigative Environmental Journalist, Founder of Oxpeckers

Fiona MacLeod is a seasoned investigative environmental journalist who is pioneering the use of new media tools to expose eco-offenses in Southern Africa and to track offenders around the world.

Macleod won the prestigious SAB EnviroMedia Written Media Award in 2018 …

Eileen Carey is an expert in online drug trafficking.  She has leveraged her background in cyber security and public relations to hold technology platforms accountable for their role in the fentanyl crisis.  In 2012, Eileen became aware of the scale of online drug sales working in digital brand protection, which included combatting counterfeit pharmaceutical sales over the Internet…  

Nilda M. Garcia is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Political Science Department at Texas A & M International University. Dr. Garcia received her PhD in International Studies from the University of Miami in 2018 with a concentration in International Relations Theory and International Political Economy. She also holds a MBA in International Trade and a BA in Business Administration Texas…

Dr Susan Cheyne has been carrying out biological conservation research in Indonesia since 2002. Her focus is on primates, felids and forest ecology. Susan is a co-director of the Borneo Nature Foundation and BRINCC. Her interests also lie in the use of non-timber forest products by people especially bush meat hunting and in environmental education within Indonesia and around the world…