James leads Futurum Asia and Africa Training, Operations, and Intelligence, having worked in the risk, intelligence and security industry since 2000, initially spending 12 years in law enforcement as an accredited specialist detective in a UK police force. He is highly experienced in developing covert and conventional investigation tactics, leading complex investigations and fraud cases, and in the design and delivery of specialised training courses. He holds a Master of Science (MSc) in Risk, Crisis, and Disaster Management from the University of Leicester.
Furthermore, James is an experienced interviewer and trainer for conducting victim, witness, and suspect interviews specialised in Behavioural Science, and has been a surveillance, investigations, and intelligence trainer since 2005. Alongside this, he has led the development of a global research and intelligence unit for Non- Government Organisations for Human Trafficking, Child Sexual Exploitation and People Smuggling, additionally delivering regular training in OSINT, data scrapping and intelligence aggregation to assist in the detection and disruption of transnational crime.
Recent advisory projects include Crisis Leadership and understanding the effects of stress on decision making, along with behavioural detection in the aviation, protective security and sporting events. More currently he was the strategic intelligence training advisor for the BIK Indonesian National Police, a role he has held since 2018, along with a member for the Strategic Advisor Board for the International Fraud Group.
