Kitty Lai is a criminal intelligence analyst in the Radiological and Nuclear Terrorism Prevention Unit (RNTPU) at INTERPOL.
She joined INTERPOL’s RNTPU in June 2021 as the team’s Criminal Intelligence Analyst. Before joining INTERPOL, she worked for the New Zealand Government as a Senior Intelligence Analyst focusing on issues of international security, counter-terrorism and transnational organized crime.
She holds a Master of Science degree with Honors in forensic science and a Post-Graduate Diploma of Arts specializing in international relations and human rights, both from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She started her career as a forensic DNA scientist in New Zealand with the Institute of Environmental Science and Research (ESR) Ltd, before branching out internationally to support war crimes investigations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iraq and Colombia, working as the Forensic Science Department Training Coordinator for the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP), then headquartered in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Since joining INTERPOL’s RNTPU, she has been focused on the identification and analysis of global radiological and nuclear incidents involving criminal activities and, or security gaps which could be exploited by non-state actors for malicious activities. She has produced and issued a number of operational analysis reports examining different types of radiological incidents around the world and provided briefings about radiological and nuclear security threats to partner agencies such as NATO.