Dr. Annette Hübschle

Dr. Annette Hübschle is a senior research fellow in the Public Law Department at the University of Cape Town. She is responsible for the Global Risk Governance programme's Environmental Futures project. Her current research focuses on understanding the new, and emerging risk and harm landscapes that are shaping 21st century securities, with specific focus on biodiversity crimes, the impacts of industrialisation on earth systems, regulating new technologies as well as the interface between licit and illicit economies and criminal networks. She holds a PhD in Social Sciences and Economics from the International Max Planck Research School on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy and the University of Cologne and a Master of Philosophy in Criminology from the University of Cape Town. In the past, Annette was a senior researcher at the Institute for Security Studies, a pan-African applied policy institute. She led and conducted research on organised crime, money laundering and terrorist financing in Africa. Annette has worked as a researcher, consultant, and practitioner on a variety of organised crime, environmental security, restorative justice and broader African security issues.