Participants at the 2024 TRAFFIC Extended Leadership Team meeting in Cambridge

Participants at the 2024 TRAFFIC Extended Leadership Team meeting in Cambridge

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our diverse and skilled global team

TRAFFIC has over 170 staff working on five continents towards the shared goal of reducing the pressure of unsustainable trade on natural biodiversity.

Our team includes experts from a plethora of backgrounds. Whether biologists, conservationists, academics, researchers, communicators or investigators, we all work to ensure TRAFFIC's essential work brings about lasting change where it is most needed.

some key personnel

Senior Leadership Team

Andrea Diez de Sollano

Andrea Diez de Sollano
Director - Development

Caroline Knightley

Caroline Knightley
Director of Global Human Resources

Chen Hin Keong

Chen Hin Keong
Acting Senior Regional Director – Asia

Melanie Heath

Melanie Heath
Senior Director – Global Programme Office

Richard Scobey

Richard Scobey
Executive Director

Sarah Vincent

Sarah Vincent
Director - Communications

Taye Teferi

Taye Teferi
Acting Senior Regional Director – Africa

Programme Office Directors

Anastasiya Timoshyna

Anastasiya Timoshyna
Director - Europe

David Newton

David Newton
Director - Southern Africa

Denis Mahonghol

Denis Mahonghol
Director – Central Africa

Kanitha Krishnasamy

Kanitha Krishnasamy
Director - Southeast Asia

Mikala Lauridsen

Mikala Lauridsen
Director - East Africa

Shinichi Kawae

Shinichi Kawae
Director – Japan

Trinh Nguyen

Trinh Nguyen
Director - Viet Nam

Xu Ling

Xu Ling
Director – China

Senior Global Experts and Managers

Ben Robinson

Ben Robinson
Head – Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning

Gayle Burgess

Gayle Burgess
Behaviour Change Programme Leader

Glenn Sant

Glenn Sant
Senior Advisor – Fisheries Trade

Igor Chodur

Igor Chodur
Head – IT & Security

Jan Curran

Jan Curran
Acting Head of Finance

Paola Mosig Reidl

Paola Mosig Reidl
Co-Lead of Data, Research, and Enforcement Support

Renata Cao

Renata Cao
Project Lead – Latin America

Stephanie Pendry

Stephanie Pendry
Co-Lead of Data, Research, and Enforcement Support

Tom Osborn

Tom Osborn
Senior Advisor – Global Projects

Vasilis Tsipidis

Vasilis Tsipidis
Head – Project Operations

Sarah Ferguson

Sarah Ferguson
Director of Policy

careers

Now you know who we are, explore our careers page for current opportunities to join our global team working towards sustainable wildlife trade.

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