Senior Project Coordinator - West and Central Africa, Environmental Investigation Agency
Bio
Justin Gosling is a law-enforcement and criminal justice consultant specialising in counter-trafficking. Justin’s professional experience spans 30 years, including service as a British police detective, and over 17 years working for a range of leading non-governmental and inter-governmental organisations, including UN agencies and INTERPOL. Most of his work focuses on environmental crime, particularly counter wildlife trafficking.
Justin has written and contributed to dozens of publications for practitioners, including the Wildlife and Forest Crime Analytic Toolkit (UNODC, 2012) and The Globalisation of Crime: A Transnational Organized Crime Threat Assessment (UNODC, 2010). Justin has conducted policy and capacity assessments, led covert investigations and trained hundreds of national enforcement officers in 18 countries across Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe and North America.
Justin holds an MSc in International Criminal Justice and a Postgraduate Certificate in Professional Research Methods. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, a former member of the Advisory Group to the Defra Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund, and a member of the Network of Experts of the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime.