We're delighted to welcome Elise Rasmussen to the Crime Stoppers International Specialist Advisory team.
For over four decades, Elise has built a reputation as one of the world's most effective conveners, a connector, facilitator, and mentor at the forefront of global transformation in the nicotine sector.
As founder and CEO of the World Nicotine Congress, she brings together health experts, politicians, and business leaders to examine the future of the sector across regulation, health awareness, innovation, investment, and law enforcement. She is also Global Sales and Events Director of TABEXPO, one of Europe's largest trade fairs for nicotine, and in 2011 co-founded and chaired Women In Tobacco, a first-of-its-kind organisation bringing women stakeholders together to network, mentor, and shape key initiatives.
Previously, Elise founded the GTNF Conference, and for more than 17 years broke new ground as the first global events organiser to bring the nicotine sector and public health experts into the same room, stepping outside the echo chamber to seek solutions in harm reduction. She was publisher of Tobacco Reporter, a 150-year-old publication recognised as the leading title in its field, and founded Vapor Voice, the only global magazine addressing issues critical to vaping.
She was awarded the Freedom of the City of London in 2013 and is Past Master of the Worshipful Company of Tobacco Pipe Makers and Tobacco Blenders.
What we value most is how she does it. Elise is known across the sector for her generosity the quiet introductions, the door held open for someone earlier in their career, the willingness to hear every side. Convening isn't a job title for her; it's a habit of character. That warmth is precisely what makes difficult conversations possible.
Illicit trade in nicotine sits at the intersection of organised crime, public health, and consumer harm. Elise brings the networks, the credibility, and the disposition to bring the right people to the table.
Welcome, Elise.
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