Douglas Farah is the Director if the the Resilience Collaborative (NGO) and president IBI Consultants.

Previously, he was a Washington Post correspondent and investigative journalist (1989-2005) covering war and drug trafficking in Latin America, the illicit blood diamond trade in West Africa and Russian organized crime, wining multiple awards. From 2005 to present, he has served as a security consultant on transnational organized crime and criminal networks in Latin America for US and European governments, and think tanks. Additionally, he has led multiple ground breaking studies on Russian influence operations and authoritarian governance.

Douglas founded the Resilience Collaborative in 2025 to study the links between transnational organized crime, authoritarian governance and criminal state capture.

He is the author of two books: Blood From Stones: The Secret Financial Network of Terror (2004) on the West African diamond wars, and Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes and the Man who Makes War Possible (2007 with Stephen Braun). Other accomplishments include the  authorship of dozens of peer reviewed publications and book chapters on transnational criminal organizations, illicit economies and criminal governance.