Andrea Crosta has over 30 years of experience in conservation projects around the world and, in a parallel professional career, has been working for over 17 years as an international consultant to companies and governmental agencies on high-end security technologies & services, homeland security, anti-terrorism, anti-piracy, and intelligence.

Andrea is the founder of Earth League International (ELI), the first Intelligence Agency for Earth, a pioneer in the use of professional intelligence applied to environmental crime. Made up of former intelligence and law enforcement, crime analysts, cyber and geospatial intelligence experts, and undercover investigators, ELI fights environmental crime by merging the worlds of conservation, intelligence, technology, and analysis.

Andrea is also among the founding members of the Wildlife Justice Commission (The Netherlands), a member of the board of the Africa Conservancy Foundation (Kenya), and the creator and project manager of WildLeaks, the world’s first wildlife crime whistleblower initiative. He supervised and directed some of the most important intelligence and investigative operations on wildlife trafficking and environmental crime of the past years, including rhino horn trafficking in South Africa, ivory trafficking in Asia and China, jaguar and wildlife trafficking in South America, and illegal fishing in Mexico.

Those intelligence-gathering operations produced confidential reports supervised by Andrea that have been routinely shared with various law enforcement agencies and governmental organizations around the world, including US Homeland Security, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Interpol, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), and various governmental authorities in Latin America and Asia.

Andrea is among the protagonists of the documentaries The Ivory Game (Netflix) and Sea of Shadows (National Geographic – Sundance FF Audience Award 2019 & FiRe Featured Film 2019). He is a Fellow of The Explorers Club (NY) and holds a master’s degree in Natural Sciences, a master’s degree in Business & Innovation, and a BSc in Psychology.