Allison Owen
Associate Fellow - Expert in cryptocurrency and counter-proliferation finance
Biography
Allison is an Associate Fellow at RUSI’s Centre for Finance and Security. Her primary research projects focus on the policy and security dimensions of cryptocurrency and new payment methods. She supports RUSI by researching emerging financial crime threats and delivering training on the material for the private and public sector.
Allison has extensively wrote on virtual asset-related topics, which cover sectoral and institutional risk assessment guidance, crypto asset recovery, and typologies and legislation related to mining, as well as typologies concerning proliferation finance and terrorist financing. Her background is in engineering and anti-financial crime.
She holds a Master of Arts in Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies and a Master of Arts in International Affairs from MGIMO University.
