Incorporated in 2020, the Centre for Global Advancement (C4GA) aims to advance and innovate new tools and strategies to combat environmental and financial crime.
Poverty, financial vulnerability and financial gain are key drivers of environmental and financial crime. Our primary strategy is the application of existing laws relating to corruption, money laundering, tax, fraud and utilising the full force of the existing laws to disrupt criminal activity linking to environmental crime.
We serve many different clients, while providing the adaptability and responsiveness needed to advance new thinking and approaches with a focus on creating environmental, social, cultural and financial change.
We welcome new partnerships and collaborate with a number of established local in-country partners, including academics, private investigators, law enforcement and journalists with a history of success in conducting financial investigations.
Our People
Amanda Gore
Kenya
Amanda, a New Zealand national, is a forensic accountant by background with over twenty years experience working across multiple regions around the world. Amanda specialises in supporting litigation and multi-jurisdictional financial investigations with an emphasis on anti-corruption, money laundering, tax crimes and asset tracing. Over the last 8 years, Amanda has concentrated on applying financial crime tools to environmental crime offences primarily across Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Amanda has held positions with Deloitte Forensic and Dispute Services in the Cayman Islands, New York and New Zealand, worked in law enforcement in New Zealand for the Inland Revenue Department and the Financial Regulator "FMA" enforcement function and run her own Swiss company supporting UK-based litigation. She has also held positions as the Deputy Director General for the Botswana Anti-Corruption Agency and as a Director for Standard Chartered Bank in Singapore developing the global AML training agenda and the newly created financial intelligence function for the Asian region. More recently, Amanda worked for UNODC in Kenya establishing a new financial investigations work-stream for the Wildlife and Forest Programme across Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Amanda also teaches two graduate courses at the University of New Haven - Wildlife Crime Investigations and Environmental Crime Investigations at the Henry C. Lee College of Criminal Justice and Forensic Science - Department of Investigations. Amanda is continuing to support litigation and law enforcement authorities under C4GA including financial investigations relating to deforestation, fisheries crime and wildlife crime cases along with developing training and providing key research and publications for key partners relating to the financial investigation aspects of environmental crime.