Expertise
Extractive Industries and Multinational CorporationsLand rights, Environment & Climate Change
Wildlife trafficking
Details
Media
Corporations add ESG to financial crime risk screens as bribery & corruption risk surface in carbon offset schemes Thomson Reuters Aug 25, 2022
Biden’s Executive Order on forests can help stop Wall Street from financing deforestation Global Witness May 24, 2022
West Africa stopping poachers but not flow of money from illegal wildlife trade, study finds The Independent Jun 2, 2021
Wildlife trafficking: a new frontier for organised financial crime Global Trade Review Jun 15, 2021
Illegal Wildlife Trade and Financial Investigations in West Africa RUSI Occasional Paper, Apr 2021
Leading from Behind: The Focus on the Financial Investigation of Wildlife Crime Must be Sustained RUSI 2020
Targeting natural resource corruption topic brief WorldWildlife.org Oct 2020
Alexandria Reid (@AlexHReid) is a Senior Policy Adviser at @Global_Witness , working to prevent the financing of deforestation, with a focus on human rights and climate justice.
She has expertise in organised environmental crime, illicit trade and related illicit financial flows.
Alexandria formerly led the environmental crime research program at the Royal United Services Institute (@RUSI_org) , a security and defence think tank established in the UK in 1831. She also served as Deputy Chair of the Strategic Hub for Organised Crime Research. She conducted fieldwork across Europe and Africa, and presented to UK and European governing bodies.
She coauthored ‘Ports, Crime and Security: Governing and Policing Seaports in a Changing World,’ published in 2021 by the Bristol University Press.
Alexandria holds an MA (Distinction) in Conflict, Security and Development, and a BA in War Studies (First Class Honours), both from King’s College London, where she was awarded the Sir Michael Howard Award for Excellence.
Prior to joining RUSI, she was Communications Manager of Strife Blog and Journal, and a Research Administrator at the King’s Centre for Military Health Research.
Her media experience includes Reuters, BBC, Global Trade Review, and The Ecologist among others.