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Last Name |
Employer |
Email Address |
Short Bio |
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| Daniel | Bacinello | CIFAR | daniel.bacinello@cifar.ca | |
| Renee | Bencic | University of Ontario Institute of Technology | reneembencic@gmail.com | |
| Rachel | Boratto | Michigan State University | raeboratto@gmail.com | Rachel Boratto is a doctoral student in Conservation Criminology at the School of Criminal Justice, Michigan State University. She holds an MSc in Natural World Heritage Management from University College Dublin and a BSc in Biological Sciences and Zoology from the University of Guelph. Her research interests include illegal wildlife trade, anti-poaching strategies, and transnational environmental crime. She has worked on various international projects, including a study on bushmeat trafficking in the Congo. Her current research is focused on domestic and transnational wildlife trade in the Canadian context. |
| Patrick | Braszak | University of Toronto | patrick.braszak@mail.utoronto.ca | Patrick is a Ph.D. student in Human Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Toronto. His interests revolve around issues concerning wildlife conservation, with past research focusing upon animal behaviour in South Africa as well as transboundary conservation in North America. Patrick’s current research explores questions of crime, deviance and compliance pertaining to the illicit wildlife trade in Canada. |
| Jim | Brown | University of Ontario Institute of Technology | james.brown@uoit.ca | Jim is an Adjunct Professor of Criminology at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), after having retired as an Inspector from the Toronto Police Service following 33 years of service. He holds a MSc in Security Studies from the London Metropolitan University (London) and is a doctoral candidate in Policing, Security and Community Safety. Jim also serves as the Executive Director of the Global Resource Epicenter Against Human Trafficking (GREAT), a Canadian based international charity and is a member of the Global Association of Human Trafficking Scholars. His Master research focused on human trafficking data collection within police services in Ontario, and how their organizational structure impacts upon service delivery, investigations and data collection. In his human trafficking work, Jim collaborates with the GREAT executive team which is dispersed around the globe and includes experts and thought leaders in the area of human trafficking, criminal intelligence analysis, police service models, money laundering and transnational organized crime. |
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| Phill | Cassey | University of Adelaide | phill.cassey@adelaide.edu.au | Assoc Prof Phill Cassey is Director of the Centre for Applied Conservation Science, and leads the Invasion Science & Wildlife Ecology Group at The University of Adelaide. As a global change biologist, he brings critical analytical techniques to the study of applied ecology, wildlife conservation, and biosecurity risk management.
Phill is a leading global change biologist, and has published extensively on the conservation, transport and trade in animal species. Phill leads a research intensive laboratory at the University of Adelaide, and teaches extensively in ecological research and research methods. He is the coordinator for the University of Adelaide’s Bachelor of Science Advanced program. Phill has been awarded a large number of competitive international research project and training grants. He is an experienced scientific communicator and regularly engages with stakeholders, media, and scientific forums. |
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| Rosaleen | Duffy | University of Sheffield | r.v.duffy@sheffield.ac.uk | Rosaleen Duffy is Professor of International Politics at the University of Sheffield. She uses a political ecology lens in order to understand the drivers of global environmental change. She is particularly interested in the global politics of biodiversity conservation, and focuses on global environmental governance, wildlife trafficking, poaching, transfrontier conservation and tourism. Recently, her work has sought to understand the growing links between global security and biodiversity conservation. In 2016 she was awarded a European Research Council Advanced Investigator Grant of EUR 1.8 million for BIOSEC - Biodiversity and Security: Understanding environmental crime, illegal wildlife trade and threat finance. The project runs from 2016 to 2020. In theoretical terms, the project addresses the meanings of ecocide, ideas of environmental crime, as well as debates on environmental security and on political ecologies of conflict. In order to address these theoretical questions, the BIOSEC research team examine the drivers of illegal wildlife hunting, the dynamics of end-user markets, the social and political dimensions of the use of surveillance technologies for wildlife protection and the EU responses to wildlife trafficking.
She has written several books including Duffy (2010) Nature Crime: How We're getting Conservation Wrong (Yale University Press); Brockington and Duffy (eds) (2010) Conservation and Capitalism (Wiley); and Brockington, Duffy and Igoe (2008) Nature Unbound: Conservation, Capitalism and the future of Protected Areas (Earthscan). She is currently completing a book on biodiversity and security. |
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| Judith | Fisher | Fisher Research Pty Ltd | ecologist@westnet.com.au | Judy was a Coordinating Lead Author in the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Global Assessment on Land Degradation and Restoration, and a Lead Author on the IPBES Asia Pacific Assessment writing on values and culture. Judy is an elected member of the IPBES Multidisciplinary Expert Panel (MEP), elected by the Western Europe and other grouping of countries (WEOG). In her MEP role Judy is the Co Chair of the IPBES Indigenous and Local Knowledge Task Force (ILK). Judy began and leads the Ecosystems and Invasive species Thematic Group within the IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management, which now has a membership from 50 countries. This group's globally endorsed framework of action aligns with the IPBES Conceptual Framework and works strongly with indigenous peoples and local communities while incorporating spiritual and cultural connections to nature. |
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| Meredith | Gore | Michigan State University | gorem@msu.edu | I am a conservation social scientist leveraging concepts of risk to enhance understanding of human-environment relationships. My scholarship is designed to build evidence for action. The majority of my scientific inquiry can be described as convergence research on conservation issues such as wildlife trafficking, illegal logging, fishing and mining. |
| Jessica | Graham | JG Global Advisory | jgraham@jgglobaladvisory.com | Jessica Graham serves as the President of JG Global Advisory, LLC, an environmental consulting company that provides integrated solutions for public, private, and non-profit organizations. She previously worked with INTERPOL Environmental Security Program as a Strategic Policy Advisor. Jessica previously worked as a Senior Advisor at the U.S. Department of State where she created the environmental crime program for the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) building a $40 million program annually to combat wildlife and forest crimes. With over 10 years of dedicated experience working on environmental and security issues, she is an expert on international policy and environmental security topics. |
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| Sheldon | Jordan | Environment and Climate Change Canada | Sheldon.Jordan@canada.ca | Director General of Wildlife Enforcement for the Canadian Government. Past chair of the INTERPOL Wildlife Crime Working Group; Co-Chair North American Wildlife Enforcement Group and on the Executive of the Canadian Conservation Chiefs' Association. Interests in transnational organized crime; environmental security policy and criminal intelligence feeding the policy and academic processes. |
| Ronit | Justo-Hanani | Tel-Aviv University | ronitjus@post.tau.ac.il | Ronit Justo-Hanani (Tel-Aviv University) specializes in risk regulation, regulatory politics, and policy processes in the EU and the US on health, safety and environmental risks. Her research focuses on bioinvasion, nanotechnology, GMOs, chemicals, and marine protection. Her academic background includes Law (LL.B), Ecology (MSc, PhD) and public policy. She is a post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Public Policy and the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History. She held visiting scholar positions in the Haas School of Business at the University of California Berkeley, and in the Institute of Biotechnology Law & Ethics at the University of Sheffield. She is in the editorial board of Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy, and worked in international projects including options for delivering ecosystem-base marine management (ODEMM, FP7). |
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| Andrea | Kirkwood | University of Ontario Institute of Technology | Andrea.Kirkwood@uoit.ca | Andrea Kirkwood completed a joint-honours degree in Environment and Resource Studies & Biology (Co-op) at the University of Waterloo, a Master's degree in Aquatic Ecology at McMaster University, and a doctoral degree in Environmental Microbiology at the University of Toronto. Andrea conducted postdoctoral studies at Oklahoma State University and the University of Calgary prior to joining the Faculty of Science at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. Currently, Andrea is an Associate Professor of Biology at UOIT with a research focus on aquatic invasive species and urban water sustainability. In addition to research, Andrea teaches a range of courses in environmental science, and is actively involved in community-based environmental stewardship initiatives. In 2016, Andrea was appointed to the International Joint Commission’s Great Lakes Science Advisory Board. |
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| Libby | Lunstrum | York University | lunstrum@yorku.ca | Libby Lunstrum is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at York University, Toronto. Her research interests include wildlife crime/commercial poaching, green militarization, conservation-induced displacement, indigenous conservation and wildlife management, and the political ecology of international borders. Her work focuses on Southern Africa and North America. |
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| Catherine | Machalaba | EcoHealth Alliance | machalaba@ecohealthalliance.org | Catherine Machalaba is policy advisor and research scientist at EcoHealth Alliance, where she focuses on strengthening health and environment synergies. She was a lead author of the World Bank One Health Operational Framework released in 2018. She is currently focused on analyzing One Health policies and practices for disease risk reduction under the USAID Emerging Pandemic Threats PREDICT-2 project. She chairs the American Public Health Association’s Veterinary Public Health group and serves as program officer for the IUCN Species Survival Commission Wildlife Health Specialist Group. Ms. Machalaba holds degrees in biology and public health. |
| Maria Socorro | Manguiat | United Nations Environment Programme | maria.manguiat@un.org | Maria Socorro Manguiat, a Senior Legal Officer at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has been practicing environmental law for over 20 years. She began as a Legal Officer at the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) of the Philippines in 1996, where she worked on a broad range of environmental issues including pollution, environmental impact assessment, and climate change. In 1999 she joined the secretariat of the Partnerships in Environmental Management for the Seas of East Asia, focusing on integrated approaches in managing land and water uses as part of a State's coastal and marine policy. In 2001 she moved to the Environmental Law Center of the International Union for Conservation of Nature where she examined the links between biological diversity and climate change. From 2006 to 2016 she worked at the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, where she provided legal advice on a variety of legal issues and was part of the Drafting and Advisory Team for the Paris Agreement.
She is currently based in Nairobi, Kenya, where she heads the National Environmental Law Unit of UNEP’s Law Division. Her Unit assists countries in developing their environmental laws and strengthening their institutions to achieve their environmental objectives.
Maria Socorro has a degree in Economics (1989) and a Juris Doctor (1993) degree, both from the Ateneo de Manila University. She obtained her Master of Laws from Harvard Law School in 1995. She is a member of the Philippine and New York bar. |
| Francis | Masse | University of Sheffield | f.masse@sheffield.ac.uk | Francis Massé earned his PhD in Geography at York University and is currently a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the BIOSEC Project at the University of Sheffield. His research takes a political ecology approach to examine two aspects of commercial wildlife crime and the illegal wildlife trade. The first is concerned with the changing nature of conservation and conservation law enforcement in response to the escalation in commercial poaching, IWT, and their intersection with more-than-conservation concerns. His second area of focus examines the micro-politics and local impacts of newly developed poaching economies in Mozambique and South Africa. |
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| Delon | Omrow | York University | delonominfo@gmail.com | Delon Alain Omrow earned his PhD at York University, specializing in Cognitive Injustice, Eco-feminism and Green Criminology. His dissertation explored the parallels between extractivism and sex-trafficking among Amerindian women in Guyana's hinterland. He currently teaches in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, Department of Equity Studies York University in Ontario, Canada. |
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| Cristina | Romanelli | UN Convention on Biological Diversity | cristina.romanelli@cbd.int | (forthcoming) |
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| Peter | Stoett | UOIT | Peter.stoett@uoit.ca | Dr. Stoett will be convening this symposium; he has worked and published widely on biosecurity and environmental policy and transnational crime. |
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| Tanya | Wyatt | Northumbria University | tanya.wyatt@northumbria.ac.uk | Professor Tanya Wyatt is a green criminologist specialising in research on wildlife trafficking, non-human animal welfare, and corruption that facilitates environmental degradation. She is the author of Wildlife Trafficking: a deconstruction of the crime, the victims, and the offenders and co-editor of several books about green crime and social harm. Tanya is co-director of Northumbria University’s Environmental and Global Justice theme. |
