Alison Hoare is a senior research fellow of Chatham House, with expertise in forest governance, natural resource use and community forestry. She leads a programme of work on illegal logging and forest governance and is also engaged in research on environmental crime and climate change. She has previously worked with a range of environmental and forestry organisations, undertaking research, policy analysis and project management. She has a BSc in botany from the University of Edinburgh and a PhD in ethnobiology from the University of Kent.