Julian Rademeyer is an award-winning South African investigative journalist, a senior research fellow with the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime and is currently leading a project for TRAFFIC on protection of Africa’s wildlife and ecosystems. Rademeyer is the author of the best-selling book, Killing for Profit: Exposing the Illegal Rhino Horn Trade. His two previous reports for the Global Initiative, “Tipping Point: Transnational Organised Crime and the ‘War’ on Poaching” and “Beyond Borders: Crime, Conservation and Criminal Networks in the Illicit Rhino Horn Trade” together represent one of the most current and in-depth investigations into the illicit networks enabling the desecration of the rhino species in Southern Africa.