February 15, 2024

Anna Lepingwell is responsible for providing worldwide capabilities around organizational readiness and crisis management to Exlog Global’s clients and partners. Anna manages Exlog’s Global Response Center, risk advisors and consultant team which provides global assistance and response, intelligence and resilience services. Prior to joining the Exlog team, Anna was the Director of Crisis Management for WorldAware. In addition to planning and managing high-threat security or natural disaster evacuations, she has extensive experience in assessing risk and implementing appropriate mitigation measures.

Top 3 Threats Globally :

1. Rising Violent Crime in Latin America. DTOs are diversifying drug smuggling routes through South and Central America leading to turf wars and significant spikes in violent and property crime in multiple countries. Ecuador and Costa Rica as primary examples.

2. Sahel trend towards Russian influence. Recent coups in the Sahel region have been a symptom of increasing Russian presence, encouraging anti-Western/colonial sentiment and further destabilizing fragile security environments.

3. Anti-Western Sentiment growing in Europe due to Israel - Gaza conflict. While the Israel - Gaza conflict has resulted in an immediate spread of violence in the wider region, the impact of anti-Israeli and by association anti-Western influence should not be underestimated. It has already caused civil unrest and violent incidents in many European countries. This increased motivation of potential threat actors increases the threat of terrorism across Europe, and it's only a matter of time before something significant comes through.

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