Allison Owen
Former Associate Fellow, CFSBiography
Allison was previously an Associate Fellow at RUSI’s Centre for Finance and Security until August 2025.
Her primary research projects focused on the policy and security dimensions of cryptocurrency and new payment methods. She undertook research on 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.
