MANDY RUDE

Expert in Wildlife and Environmental Crime

Mandy is an expert in wildlife and environmental crime. She has worked for the U.S. Department of State and the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GITOC) after receiving her law degree specializing in environmental law at Lewis & Clark College of Law. She has experience in international environmental and wildlife trade law and policy analysis, organized crime programs and management. She has done field work in Mongolia for Legal Atlas on wildlife trade policy and in Malaysia on corruption and wildlife trade. Mandy is a co-author of Silent Steppe II: Illegal Wildlife Trade in Mongolia. She is currently based in the United States.