Andrea Crosta is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of Elephant Action League. He has 25 years of experience in conservation and research projects all over the world, and since 1989 he has been involved on a variety of projects in Africa, Asia, South America, and Europe.
Crosta has also worked for over 15 years as an international consultant to companies and governmental agencies on high-end security technologies and services, homeland security, investigation, and risk management, a knowledge that he now applies to conservation and wildlife protection. In 1998, he founded Think Italy, one of the first e-commerce companies in Italy.
Crosta is on the board of the Italian environmental NGO Torbiera Zoological Society, and he is among the founding and supervisory board members of the recently established Wildlife Justice Commission, in the Hague, The Netherlands. He is also a partner of Kids Home, a private NGO that provides support to children and their families in Chiang Mai, Thailand. He holds a Master’s Degree in Natural Sciences, a Master’s Degree in Business & Innovation, and a B.S. in Psychology.