Louise is based in Bangkok, Thailand and oversees work across East Asia, South East Asia and the Pacific. Louise drives analysis and collaboration on organised crime threats across the respective regions and other Observatories’ work across the globe.  She focuses on understanding more about resilience and responses, supporting civil society to thrive in multi-sectoral stakeholder settings. Louise wants to make better linkages between research, analysis and policy-making and support governments to innovate and design more effective responses to organised crime.

Before joining GI-TOC, Louise Taylor was Head of the UK Government’s flagship global Serious and Organised Crime network (SOCnet) and prior to that was responsible for developing the UK Foreign and Commonwealth’s Office’s approach to tackling serious and organised crime across its global network.  Louise Taylor has an MA(Hons) in Social Anthropology and Development from the University of Edinburgh.