Eve de Coning (LLB, LLM (shipping law and law of the sea)) is a specialist director with the Norwegian Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries and a trained crime intelligence analyst. Her area of expertise is the prevention of fisheries crime both nationally and internationally and she has worked on these issues in different capacities with INTERPOL, UNODC, ILO, the Norwegian Criminal Investigation Services (NCIS-Norway) and the Norwegian National Authority for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime (Økokrim). She helped establish and chaired the INTERPOL Fisheries Crime Working Group and is the author of several reports and academic articles on IUU fishing, fisheries crime and crime prevention