Tanya Wyatt

Short Resume

Tanya Wyatt is a green criminologist with nearly 20 years of experience researching Crimes that Affect the Environment. She joined the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime’s Research and Trend Analysis Branch in November 2022. There, she is the Lead Researcher on Crimes that Affect the Environment, where she coordinates and conducts research on the first-ever Global Analysis on Crimes that Affect the Environment and the flagship World Wildlife Crime Report. Before joining UNODC, she was a Professor at Northumbria University in Newcastle, UK. During this time, she published nearly 100 books, journal articles, book chapters, and reports on Crimes that affect the Environment. Before that, she was a USA Peace Corps Volunteer in Ukraine and a police officer for nearly 5 years in the US. Tanya holds a BA in Biology from Mills College in Oakland, California, USA and a Master's in Criminology and Criminal Justice from Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Michigan, USA. She earned her Doctorate in Criminology from the University of Kent in Canterbury, UK.