Maureen E. Moriarty is a Non-Resident Fellow at the Orion Policy Institute, specializing in environmental crime and human security. She has served for twenty-five years as an accomplished scholar and practitioner, serving as a Senior Fellow at the Duke Center for International Development and Duke/ UNC Rotary Peace Program and teaching courses on land and natural resource governance, conflict, anti-corruption, and transnational organized crime at nexus of the development, peacebuilding, and humanitarian sectors.
She currently serves as Senior Associate for Security at CDA Collaborative and has worked in the Russian Federation, Ukraine, Sri Lanka, Colombia, Haiti, Liberia, Mozambique, Thailand, Myanmar, Kosovo, Somalia, Tanzania, Burundi and more. Maureen’s specializations include research and practice at the intersection of land, human trafficking, transnational organized crime, illicit financial flows, resource governance, and financial crime. Most recently, she conducted and co-authored two research investigations on illicit timber forced labor/human trafficking conditions and timber trafficking and terrorist financing, the latter of which was covered by the BBC.
She currently holds certifications in Anti Money Laundering and Combating Financing of Terrorism from ACAMS, Conflict Sensitivity, and AML/CFT and Financial Inclusion from DFI in South Africa. Maureen has recently been appointed to the Global Initiative Against Transnational Crime’s Panel of Experts in the area of conflict, fragility, and environment.
