
Julian Rademeyer
Director - Civil Society Observatory of Illicit Economies in East and Southern Africa, GI-TOC
About this speaker
Julian Rademeyer is Director of the Organised Crime Observatory for East and Southern Africa at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime. Previously, he was a project leader at TRAFFIC, the international wildlife trade monitoring network and editor of the fact-checking website, Africa Check. A former investigative journalist, his bestselling book, Killing for Profit – Exposing the Illegal Rhino Horn Trade, was shortlisted for the Alan Paton Award, South Africa’s most prestigious literary prize for non-fiction. His work on illegal wildlife trade and organised crime has been featured on Al Jazeera, BBC, CNN, Sky News and in The Guardian, New York Times, Sunday Times, Daily Maverick, Economist, National Geographic, Financial Times and the LA Times.