Eve de Coning (LLB, LLM (shipping law) UCT) is policy director at the Norwegian Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries and deputy head of the Blue Justice Secretariat. She has also worked in various capacities for INTERPOL, ILO, UNODC and the Norwegian police services. She is trained in crime intelligence and analysis and has had a particular focus on the prevention of fisheries crime. At present she is also a research fellow at SIGLA and a member of the International Law Association Committee on Protection of People at Sea on behalf of the Norwegian chapter. In her academic writings she merges practical experience with research in the areas of international law of the sea, mutual legal assistance and legal theory. She has authored several reports for the UN and INTERPOL and that have shaped the discourse on fisheries crime and fisheries crime prevention globally. Through Blue Justice she works closely with government agencies across the world to assist in the implementation of the Copenhagen Declaration on Transnational Organized Crime in the Global Fishing Industry.