Lisa Hartevelt is Director of Policy at the Wildlife Justice Commission, and chair of the Working Group on Environmental Crime and Corruption. She is also co-chair of the Alliance of NGOs on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice’s Working Group on Crimes that Affect the Environment. Through these roles, she promotes coordinated civil society engagement and advocacy on the links among environmental crime, corruption, and organised crime.
Her areas of expertise include international policy and legislation, wildlife trafficking, crimes that affect the environment, and crime convergence – particularly the links among wildlife trafficking, corruption, and financial crime, and the role of corruption in enabling environmental crime.
She is actively engaged in Vienna-based multilateral processes, including the Conferences of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) and the Conferences of the Parties to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC), as well as the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ).
With close to 20 years of experience in diplomacy, multilateral affairs, and strategic communications, her previous roles include positions at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands. She holds a master’s degree in International and European Law from the University of Groningen.