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Campbell, Dr. Aretha M.

Dr. Campbell is an interdisciplinary academic and policy expert with specialised expertise in corruption, anti‑corruption, illicit finance, and serious and organised crime, with a primary regional focus on the Caribbean. She currently serves as an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of the West Indies (UWI) Global Campus and as a Contributing Consultant to Transparency International. Her work is grounded in International Political Economy, Risk Management and Compliance, Rule of Law, and Global Governance. She is fully independent and has no professional, financial, or institutional affiliations that would impair her objectivity as an Expert Witness.

She holds a PhD with distinction in Rule of Law and Global Governance from the University of Salamanca, Spain. Her doctoral research examined money laundering, terrorist financing, and tax evasion in Caribbean offshore financial centres and resulted in a peer‑reviewed monograph published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2021. She has since authored and contributed to numerous academic articles, policy papers, special reports, and country analyses published across Europe, the United Kingdom, and the Caribbean.

Occupation: Lecturer and Researcher

Countries of expertise: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands

Sedreni, Gyltene

My work has equipped me to evaluate country conditions through a disciplined framework that considers security, governance, community dynamics, institutional behavior, and vulnerability in combination, rather than in isolation. My expertise is especially relevant where a case turns on whether an individual could reasonably obtain protection, safely relocate, or avoid persecution, serious harm, reprisals, extortion, gang coercion, political targeting, gender-based violence, or reprisals linked to family or community structures. I assess, where relevant, whether state protection is available, effective, and accessible in practice; whether criminal or political actors can act with impunity or informal protection; whether relocation within the country would be realistic and durable; how local factors affect the risk profile of the individual concerned; and whether socio-economic, ethnic, political, or family-based vulnerabilities materially increase exposure to harm.

Occupation: I am an experienced country conditions, security, governance, and conflict-affected environments specialist with substantial professional experience in international peace-support operations, civil-military coordination, risk assessment, security analysis, and field-based evaluation of fragile institutional settings. My work in connection with KFOR gave me direct exposure to the practical assessment of security conditions, ethnic and political tensions, freedom of movement issues, state and quasi-state institutional capacity, policing effectiveness, local power structures, humanitarian conditions, civilian vulnerability, and the interaction between formal and informal systems of control. KFOR’s role has long involved maintaining a secure environment, preserving freedom of movement,… Read more

Countries of expertise: Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela

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