Summer Walker

Articles by: Summer Walker

Environmental crime: The not-so-hidden obstacle to combat climate change

6th November 2021

Summer Walker, Senior Analyst, GI-TOC

ANALYSIS: As the UK continues to host the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26), GI-TOC Senior Analyst Summer Walker explains how organised environmental crime intensifies climate change – and the need for a response that is a targeted, sustainable intervention in the climate change mitigation arsenal.

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Summer Walker is a Senior Analyst and the New York Representative for the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC). In her role, she engages with the United Nations community and government missions to bring the research, analysis and innovative approaches of GI and its Network of Experts to multilateral policy debates. Ms Walker focuses on global criminal justice agendas and produces relevant policy briefs and commentary pieces on issues ranging from drug policy to cybercrime. As a research consultant, she has worked in New York and Berlin for international NGOs, foundations, development agencies and research institutes. During 2015-2016, she directed a drug policy project at United Nations University in New York leading up to the 2016 UN General Assembly special session on the world drug problem. Her wider background is in human rights and development, and she explores the impacts of organized crime and associated responses in these areas. Ms Walker holds an MSc in Human Rights from the London School of Economics and a BA in Peace and Conflict Studies from Colgate University.