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Annette Hübschle

Chief research officer: Global Risk Governance Programme, Public Law Department, Faculty of Law, University of Cape Town

Chief research officer: Global Risk Governance Programme, Public Law Department, Faculty of Law, University of Cape Town Annette Hübschle is a chief research officer in the Global Risk Governance Programme in the Public Law Department at the University of Cape Town, where she is also responsible for the Environmental and Planetary Futures Research Group. Annette holds a PhD in Social Sciences and Economics from the International Max Planck Research School on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy and the University of Cologne and a Masters of Philosophy in Criminology from the University of Cape Town. Her current research focuses on the governance of safety and security with a specific focus on the structure and functioning of illegal economies, environmental restorative justice, natural resource extraction (especially oil and gas), as well as the interface between licit and illicit economies and criminal networks.