About us

CCCA is a Stichting (Foundation) based in The Hague, The Netherlands (KvK 70909474). It has been granted ANBI status (tax benefit status) by the Dutch tax authorities (RSIN 858506919).

FOUNDER

• CCCA was founded in 2018 by Reinhold Gallmetzer, an international prosecutor and climate leader. Reinhold served as the Chairperson of CCCA’s Board of Directors until October 2024. For his leadership of CCCA, in November 2024 Business Insider selected Reinhold as one of its Climate Action 15 – global innovators driving sustainable solutions. 

Board of Directors

(Serving in their personal capacities) 

• Alex Whiting (chair), law professor and former international and US federal prosecutor
• Peter Kremer, former Canadian federal prosecutor and UN war crimes prosecutor
• Jonathan Struggles (secretary/treasurer), environmental lawyer and former UN war crimes prosecutor

Executive director

• Colin Black is a former international and national prosecutor. Prior to joining CCCA in January 2024, he was a Trial Lawyer and Head of Unified Team at the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court from 2015-2023. Before that he prosecuted environmental crimes with the US Department of Justice’s Environmental Crimes Section from 2007-2015, and he worked in the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia from 2002-2006.

Advisory Board

(Serving in their personal capacities) 

• José Antonio Alfaro Moreno, Europol, Team Leader EU Organised Crime Unit O2-24 AP, EnviCrime
• Katrina Gustafson, securities enforcement counsel and former prosecutor at UN war crimes tribunal​
• Michelle Jarvis, Deputy Head of the International, Impartial, and Independent UN Mechanism for Syria, and former Deputy to the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
• Nema Milaninia, former international prosecutor, government advisor, and lawyer at Alphabet Inc.
• Ana María Mondragón Duque, Deputy Judge at the Colombian Special Jurisdiction for Peace
• Davyth Stewart, Senior Consultant – wildlife and timber crime, former Coordinator of INTERPOL’s Environmental Security Program and Senior Forest Campaigner and legal counsel at Global Witness

CCCA has been endorsed by, and cooperates with, Europol, the European Environmental Crimes Network, and domestic prosecution and police authorities, including from the United States of America, the Netherlands, Brazil, and Peru.

CCCA is independent, in the sense that it decides autonomously on which areas and specific fact patterns to focus. Additionally, CCCA controls its analysis and information sharing.