Environmental Crime
Our cutting-edge global research on environmental crime focuses on environmental security, wildlife crime, illegal fishing, corruption and illicit finance.
Our research seeks to promote a step-change in current efforts to address organised criminal activity that is systematically depleting irreplaceable flora and fauna, driving key species to extinction and irreversibly damaging vital ecosystems worldwide. We seek to chart the shifting dynamics of environmental crime, while identifying opportunities to bolster a global response that all too often fails to treat this activity as large-scale transnational organised crime. Our focus is on enhancing the response to critical enabling activities of environmental crime, such as corruption and money laundering, whilst highlighting areas of convergence across multiple crime types.
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Our experts
Cathy Haenlein
Director of Organised Crime and Policing Studies
Organised Crime and Policing
Tom Keatinge
Director, CFS
Centre for Finance and Security
Anne-Marie Weeden
Senior Research Fellow | SHOC Network Member - Researcher
Organised Crime and Policing
Mark Williams
Programme Manager | SHOC Network Member - Researcher
Organised Crime and Policing
Elijah Glantz
Research Fellow
Organised Crime and Policing
Jennifer Scotland
Research Analyst
Organised Crime and Policing
Fellows
Charlotte Davies
RUSI Associate Fellow, Organised Crime and Policing
Professor Lorraine Elliott
Senior Associate Fellow - Expert in environmental crime, climate and environmental security
Isabel Hilton OBE
RUSI Senior Associate Fellow, International Security
Alexandria Reid
RUSI Associate Fellow, OCP | SHOC Network Member - Researcher
Dr Timothy Wittig
RUSI Associate Fellow, Organised Crime and Policing
