Dr. David Soud left academia to join I.R. Consilium in 2017. He focuses primarily on tracking and countering resource-related crimes, and is a leading authority on illicit flows of precious metals, oil and gas, and other extractives, as well as their links to illicit financial flows. Dr. Soud is the author of three groundbreaking reports for the OECD on illicit gold flows, is a primary investigator on a five-year grant from the National Science Foundation mapping networks around illicit flows of gold and mercury in South America and Africa, and consults both formally and informally with law enforcement agencies, other government entities, and private clients around the world. In addition, he served as a contributing author on I.R. Consilium’s first three seminal reports for the Atlantic Council on downstream oil theft, and lead author of the final report, Countermeasures and Good Practices against Downstream Oil Theft. Dr. Soud has also investigated and published regarding other resource-related matters, including illegal logging and associated trade, IUU fishing, sanctions evasion, and the nexus between resource-related crime and transnational organized crime. He holds a DPhil in English from the University of Oxford.
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