Anne-Marie Weeden

Anne-Marie Weeden is a Senior Research Fellow within the Organised Crime and Policing research group, where she oversees the Environmental Crime portfolio of work as well as providing technical inputs on green criminology issues that cut across serious and organised crime threats or that arise out of the societal response to these challenges. Her work contributes to the identification of multi-dimensional security, geopolitical and supply chain risks posed by large-scale, criminal exploitation of environmental commodities which contribute to climate and nature security threats. This includes enhancing the knowledge base on the illegal wildlife trade, timber trafficking, illegal fishing, and illicit minerals, through developing evidence-based political economy analysis and best practice in enforcement and criminal justice responses.

Anne-Marie is a dual UK/Dutch national from a multi-disciplinary background, having worked extensively in the UK advertising sector before moving into the conservation and environmental crime sector. After moving to Uganda in 2008, she managed a Kampala-based UK conservation NGO, before setting up her own consultancy to provide technical support and other services to environmental, peacebuilding, and security sectors across Africa. She has firsthand expertise of collaborative, cross-sector interventions against organised crime networks active in wildlife and drugs trafficking in East Africa as well as the implementation of policy, enforcement, criminal justice, and community-oriented strategies to counter illegal wildlife trade and build capacity among national public and private sector actors, especially in the area of associated illicit financial flows, corruption and structural vulnerabilities. She holds a Master’s in Economic Crime (Distinction) from the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Portsmouth and is a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for the UNODC’s World Wildlife Crime report.