Meredith Gore is the Research and Policy Advisor for the WEMS initiative and is an Associate Professor of Human Dimensions of Global Change in the Department of Geographical Sciences at University of Maryland.  She received her PhD in Natural Resource Policy and Management from Cornell University, MA in Environment and Resource Policy from George Washington University, and BA in Anthropology and Environmental Studies from Brandeis University. From 2006-2020, she was faculty at Michigan State University, where she was jointly appointed in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife and School of Criminal Justice. She has served as a Jefferson Science Fellow in the Office of the Geographer and Global Issues at the U.S. Department of State and a U.S. Embassy Science Fellow for the U.S. Mission to the African Union, where she has provide science advise and expertise in support of decision making about wildlife trafficking. Dr. Gore uses risk concepts to build new understanding of human-environment relationships and engages in research designed to build evidence for action in collaboration with stakeholders all over the world. The majority of her activities can be described as convergence research on conservation crime issues such as wildlife trafficking, illegal logging, fishing and mining. She has conducted field work in locales such as Vietnam, Madagascar, Mexico, Democratic Republic of Congo, United States, Ethiopia, and the United Kingdom. More about Dr. Gore can be found at https://conservationcriminology.com/.