Stéphane Crayne is a consultant on wildlife protection strategies in Central Africa and is currently Chief Technical Advisor in the Okapi Wildlife Reserve in northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Combining fieldwork and theory, he is also a Research Associate at the Marjan Centre for the Study of War and the Non-Human Sphere, King’s College London. As a former French army officer and adviser to the WWF in the Central African Republic, he fosters a multidisciplinary approach to conservation in conflict zones, specialising in providing technical support to protected area management, as well as anti-poaching and security.
Professor Rosaleen Duffy is Professor of International Politics at the University of Sheffield. Her research focuses on the politics of conservation, wildlife trafficking, poaching, transfrontier conservation and ecotourism. Her most recent books include Nature Crime: How We’re Getting Conservation Wrong (Yale University Press, 2010) and Nature Unbound: Conservation, Capitalism and the Future of Protected Areas (Earthscan, 2008) (with Dan Brockington and James Igoe). In September 2016, Rosaleen initiated a four-year, €1.8-million research project entitled ‘Biodiversity and Security: Understanding Environmental Crime, Illegal Wildlife Trade and Threat Finance’, funded by the European Research Council.
Jasper Humphreys is Director of External Relations at the Marjan Centre for the Study of War and the Non-Human Sphere, King’s College London. He has published extensively on strategic issues relating to poaching and wildlife trafficking, following a BA in War Studies (2010) as a mature student. Recent publications have included ‘War and Wildlife: The Clausewitz Connection’, International Affairs (Vol. 87, No. 1, 2011) and ‘The “Rhinofication” of South African Security’, International Affairs (Vol. 90, No. 4, 2014) (both with M L R Smith). Hitherto, Jasper was a journalist, working for various British national newspapers as a general reporter.
Dr Thomas Maguire is a Junior Research Fellow at Darwin College and the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge. He is also a Project Coordinator and Research Associate at the Department of War Studies, King's College London. In 2014–15, Tom was a Visiting Fellow at RUSI, where he led a year-long research project examining connections between ivory trafficking, organised crime and terrorist financing in East Africa. He has published widely on this and other issues, including the influence of intelligence, interrogation and propaganda on counter-insurgency and the place of intelligence and propaganda in British and American Cold War statecraft.
Professor Keith Somerville is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and teaches at the Centre for Journalism, University of Kent. He is currently researching the nature and effects of human–wildlife conflict in Africa and the history of South African radio propaganda under Apartheid. His book Ivory: Power and Poaching in Africa, on the history and political economy of the ivory trade in Africa, was published by Hurst in November 2016. Keith’s previous books include Africa's Long Road since Independence: The Many Histories of a Continent (Hurst, 2016) and Radio Propaganda and the Broadcasting of Hatred (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).
Dr Tim Wittig is a scholar-practitioner, author and educator in the fields of illicit trafficking and finance. He is currently Senior Wildlife Trafficking Analyst with the Wildlife Conservation Society, and has previously worked for the US Department of Defense, US National Defense University, Johns Hopkins University and the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of numerous publications, including Understanding Terrorist Finance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).