Kathi Lynn Austin
Executive Director, Conflict Awareness Project (website)
twitter: @kathilynnaustin
email: kathilynnaustin [at] gmail [dot] com
phone: +1 202 250 9595
Executive Director, Conflict Awareness Project (website)
twitter: @kathilynnaustin
email: kathilynnaustin [at] gmail [dot] com
phone: +1 202 250 9595
arms trafficking | environment | harm to civilians - casualties, human rights, development
Kathi Lynn Austin is the founder and Executive Director of the Conflict Awareness Project, where she investigates major arms traffickers and others who fuel war across the world. Her work examines the illicit trade of weapons, resources, and persons as well as transnational crime and terror networks in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. With nearly 30 years of experience, she is an internationally recognized expert on human rights, security issues, and the weapons trade.
Ms. Austin has served with the United Nations Group of Experts on the DRC and Liberia, the Chief of the Joint Mission Analysis Centre for the United Nations Peacekeeping Missions in Timor-Leste and Burundi, and a variety of multilateral institutions and non-governmental organizations, such as the Fund for Peace, Human Rights Watch, the International Crisis Group, the World Bank, and the Open Society Justice Initiative, where she currently serves as Senior Advisor for the Anti-Corruption Program. She has also served as visiting scholar at Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley, and was named the Arms Control Association’s “Person of the Year” in 2011.
Recent Publications:
Kathi Lynn Austin is the founder and Executive Director of the Conflict Awareness Project, where she investigates major arms traffickers and others who fuel war across the world. Her work examines the illicit trade of weapons, resources, and persons as well as transnational crime and terror networks in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. With nearly 30 years of experience, she is an internationally recognized expert on human rights, security issues, and the weapons trade.
Ms. Austin has served with the United Nations Group of Experts on the DRC and Liberia, the Chief of the Joint Mission Analysis Centre for the United Nations Peacekeeping Missions in Timor-Leste and Burundi, and a variety of multilateral institutions and non-governmental organizations, such as the Fund for Peace, Human Rights Watch, the International Crisis Group, the World Bank, and the Open Society Justice Initiative, where she currently serves as Senior Advisor for the Anti-Corruption Program. She has also served as visiting scholar at Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley, and was named the Arms Control Association’s “Person of the Year” in 2011.
Recent Publications:
- “Follow The Guns: An overlooked key to combat rhino poaching and wildlife crime" Special Report, Conflict Awareness Project, April 22, 2019.