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Name
Dr Tim Wittig
Title
Head of Intelligence, United for Wildlife Taskforces
Bio
Dr. Tim Wittig is a conservationist, professor, and former defense intelligence analyst. He is a research fellow at the University of Oxford's Interdisciplinary Centre for Conservation Science (ICCS), an associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) in London, and Head of Intelligence for the Royal Foundation's United for Wildlife Financial and Transport sector Taskforces.
Tim has lived in 8 countries on 3 continents and worked in over 40 different countries. His professional background is in research & development and applied sciences, intelligence-led targeting of illicit financial networks, and African and global security.
Tim began his career in national security, and was one of the first people in the US Intelligence Community (IC) to treat biodiversity and ecosystem collapse as a threat to global security.
Since their inception in 2016, Tim has played a central role in the United for Wildlife Financial and Transport Taskforces, a groundbreaking program of the Royal Foundation of the Duke & Duchess of Cambridge to use data and intelligence, alongside high-level formal commitments, to mobilize 150+ of the worlds’ largest banks, maritime shipping companies, and airlines to take meaningful action against global wildlife trafficking. Tim conceived of and currently runs the central intelligence sharing system of the both Taskforces.
He came to work professionally in conservation after observing how the major threats to the environment today - species loss, climate change, pollution, et al - are all underpinned and driven often to a large extent by crime and corruption, illicit networks, and societal injustice. And that rigorous, hard-hitting intelligence and analysis of these dynamics, especially when done at scale, will be a game changer in how we confront threats to the world’s wildlife and ecosystems.
Tim has lived in 8 countries on 3 continents and worked in over 40 different countries. His professional background is in research & development and applied sciences, intelligence-led targeting of illicit financial networks, and African and global security.
Tim began his career in national security, and was one of the first people in the US Intelligence Community (IC) to treat biodiversity and ecosystem collapse as a threat to global security.
Since their inception in 2016, Tim has played a central role in the United for Wildlife Financial and Transport Taskforces, a groundbreaking program of the Royal Foundation of the Duke & Duchess of Cambridge to use data and intelligence, alongside high-level formal commitments, to mobilize 150+ of the worlds’ largest banks, maritime shipping companies, and airlines to take meaningful action against global wildlife trafficking. Tim conceived of and currently runs the central intelligence sharing system of the both Taskforces.
He came to work professionally in conservation after observing how the major threats to the environment today - species loss, climate change, pollution, et al - are all underpinned and driven often to a large extent by crime and corruption, illicit networks, and societal injustice. And that rigorous, hard-hitting intelligence and analysis of these dynamics, especially when done at scale, will be a game changer in how we confront threats to the world’s wildlife and ecosystems.
