Allison Owen is an Associate Fellow at RUSI’s Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies. Her primary research projects focus on the policy and security dimensions of cryptocurrency and new payment methods. She supports RUSI’s work on cryptocurrency and counter-proliferation finance, focusing on the use of crypto to evade sanctions, and provides guidance for the private and public sector to understand and mitigate associated threats.

She holds a Master of Arts in Non-proliferation and Terrorism Studies from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, a Master of Arts in International Affairs from MGIMO University, and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Kansas.