Patrick Alley

• Co-Founder and Co-Director
  Global Witness

1993, Co-Founder and currently, Director, Global Witness; took part in its first investigations into the Thai-Khmer Rouge timber trade in 1995, and since then has taken part in over 50 field investigations in South-East Asia, Africa and Europe, and in subsequent advocacy activities; focuses on conflict resources, particularly in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and in the past in Liberia and Cote d'Ivoire, based on the organization's experience in tackling conflict diamonds, and former Liberia's arms for timber trade; also leads work on forest issues, especially challenging industrial scale logging in the tropics and the role of forests in combating climate change; involved in the strategic leadership of Global Witness. Member, Global Agenda Council on Conflict Prevention, World Economic Forum.