Our Expertise
Langland leverages a rare blend of national security intelligence professionals, conservation scientists, and specialised data engineers.
Our Trustees
Alex Cooper
Alex Cooper is Chair of the Trustees and has helped Matt since the early days of Langland. After two decades service alongside Matt, he was Director of Mass Testing in the Covid pandemic and has since founded an artificial intelligence company, Electric Twin, with a former colleague from No10.
Chair of Trustees
Lisa Freeman
Lisa Freeman is a practicing barrister who holds a LLM in International Law and Human Rights from the University of Essex. She has spent over 18 years at the English bar and specialises in international civil fraud, asset recovery (proceeds of crime), and money laundering advisory and reporting. She has delivered lectures and workshops internationally for the UN and EU on mechanisms for the detection and prevention of money laundering. Her free time is spent scuba diving.
Trustee
Roger Stringer MBE
Roger Stringer MBE is a senior diplomat at the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). Spending most of his career overseas, Roger was recently His Majesty’s Ambassador to Angola. He previously served in leadership roles in Pakistan, France, Afghanistan, South Africa, and Iraq. Roger had a previous career as a frontline British Army officer, seeing operational service in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Roger brings a range of diplomatic, national security, military and policy experience to the Board of Trustees. Roger is passionate about Africa and conservation, having a profound connection with the Continent and its ecosystems, flora and fauna. Roger speaks fluent French and Portuguese.
Trustee
Simon Rogers OBE
Simon is a serving military officer with 24 years of experience. His career has had an operational focus, where deployments and campaigns have seen him operate across the globe, on land and at sea. Both as a Chief of Staff, and a Commander he has designed as well as delivered change programmes that have improved policy, capability, and ultimately output. With a keen interest in ethics and effective decision making, he is currently learning how AI can harnessed for Defence.
TrusteeOur Team
Alice
Alice is Head of Analysis at Langland Conservation. She holds a PhD in Complex Systems Simulation, with a focus on agent-based modelling of jaguar populations. She has 8 years of experience working in data science, specialising in machine learning, statistics, and big data analysis. She also has 9 years of experience working for the British Army as an intelligence analyst. During her time with Langland, she has had a variety of analytical projects, from MaxEnt and occupancy modelling of keystone species to qualitative analysis of threats posed to park rangers.
Head of Analysis
Alice
Alice is a geospatial analyst at Langland and a PhD researcher at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on the use of remote sensing and spatial data to understand forest ecosystems and their responses to environmental change. She holds an MSc from the University of Bristol and has extensive experience working with large geospatial datasets, including satellite imagery, airborne LiDAR, and climate data. At Langland, she specialises in geospatial analysis, cartography, and data visualisation to support conservation intelligence and decision-making.
Analyst
Amie
Amie is an environmental crime intelligence analyst specializing in transnational organized crime networks exploiting natural resources. She focuses on mapping systemic criminal architectures — integrating multi-source data to identify network actors, financial flows, logistics corridors, and governance vulnerabilities. She has contributed to major timber interdictions in Mozambique, high-value wildlife product seizures across Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, multi-jurisdictional trafficking prosecutions, and financial investigations involving nine-figure illicit revenue streams. Her maritime intelligence support to a counter-IUU fishing and counternarcotics operation contributed to a $66 million narcotics seizure.
Senior Analyst
Becky
Becky is Chief of Staff at Langland Conservation. Based in the UK, she holds a BSc in Ecology and Wildlife Conservation and a BA in Graphic and Communication Design. She holds specific expertise in geospatial analysis, open-source intelligence, data visualisation, C-IWT investigations. Outside of Langland Conservation she is Trustee and Director of The Helvellyn Foundation, a foundation that funds biodiversity conservation, and she is part of the Advisory Group for the Environmental Funders Network, working to increase the amount of philanthropy focused on the environment in the UK.
Chief of Staff
Kay
As an Intelligence Analyst at Langland, Kay combats the illegal wildlife trade by blending her MSci in Conservation Biology with tactical investigatory skills. Drawing on six years as a British Army Intelligence Officer - where she specialised in fusing complex, multi-source data to disrupt illicit networks - she applies advanced analytics, counter-organised crime, and cyber threat intelligence to safeguard biodiversity. She is passionate about collaborating with global partners, turning intricate data into actionable intelligence to protect vulnerable ecosystems.
Analyst
Matt
Matt is Langland’s founder and CEO. He has over 20 years experience in building and managing high performance teams in complex environments. He founded Langland having recognised that many of the technologies and techniques developed to counter the most challenging security threats had considerable application in conservation.
Founder and CEO
Polly
Polly is a multidisciplinary conservation scientist working across Langland's analytical and C-IWT projects. She holds a MSc in Conservation Science and Policy from the University of Exeter and BA/MA from the University of Cambridge. Before moving back to the UK for her MSc she managed an eco-tourism business in Mozambique's Bazaruto Archipelago National Park, where she was involved in marine research and community-led conservation initiatives.
Senior Analyst
Pradipty
Pradipty is Senior Analyst at Langland Conservation. with a specialism on law and cybercrime. She is based in India and holds a law degree. She is also pursuing a Ph.D. in cyber-enabled wildlife crime. In addition to analyzing wildlife trafficking, legal cases and criminality across Asia and Africa, she holds expertise in training law enforcement agencies on wildlife laws and due process investigation alongside conceptualizing manuals, handbooks, and other training materials.
Senior Analyst
Ruari
Ruari is the Chief Technology Officer at Langland Conservation, with over 8 years of experience in intelligence operations. He joined Langland in 2022 as its first analyst and now drives technology & innovation within the team, as well as capacity-building efforts with partner projects. A graduate of King’s College London, Ruari began his career in the British Army, where he served five years as an intelligence analyst. He has since developed extensive expertise in geospatial intelligence and the application of artificial intelligence in remote sensing. At Langland, Ruari leads the development of an advanced suite of intelligence tools designed to integrate, process, and analyse data, empowering Langland’s conservation partners to make informed, impactful decisions.
Chief Technology Officer
Tom
Tom is a Junior Data Engineer at Langland Conservation. He spent eight years in the Philippines running his own business and scuba diving; the diving sparked his passion for conservation, while software challenges drew him toward data engineering. He joined Langland after returning to the UK for formal training in data engineering. His skills include Python, SQL, BigQuery, GCP, and geospatial analysis, supporting Langland's conservation intelligence work.
Junior Data Engineer
Trishanti
Trishanti is an Analyst at Langland Conservation. She holds an MA in Ecology, Environment and Sustainable Development. Prior to joining Langland, she worked for nearly five years with Wildlife Conservation Society–India in their Counter Wildlife Trafficking (CWT) Programme. She managed WCS-India’s illegal wildlife trade database and supported government partners with insights on emerging trends and patterns related to species and locations. Her technical skills include open-source intelligence, C-IWT investigations, QGIS, ArcGIS, Power BI, and NVivo.e
Analyst
Yannick
Yannick is a Junior Analyst at Langland Conservation. He is based in Denmark and holds a MSc degree in Nature Management and Conservation. He has several years of experience carrying out his own research projects in South and Central America where he focused on local community engagement and education, and wildlife conservation. Furthermore, he is a volunteer at Reserva: The Youth Land trust and has several years of international experience having worked and lived in India, the Netherlands, Denmark, Ecuador, and Belize.
Junior Analyst
Other Team Members
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