Dr. Kim Rossmo

Dr. Kim Rossmo is a Research Professor and the Director of the Center for Geospatial Intelligence and Investigation (GII) in the Department of Criminal Justice at Texas State University. He has a PhD in criminology from Simon Fraser University, and has researched and published in the areas of environmental criminology, policing, and offender profiling. Dr. Rossmo was formerly a management consultant with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), where he trained the first U.S. federal law enforcement agent in geographic profiling. Previously, he was the Director of Research for the Police Foundation in Washington, DC. Before that, he was the Detective Inspector in charge of the Vancouver Police Department’s Geographic Profiling Section, which provided investigative support for the international law enforcement community. Dr. Rossmo is a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Advisory Committee for Police Investigative Operations, the South Carolina Research Authority Integrated Solutions Group Advisory Board, and the International Crime Analysis Association Scientific Advisory Board in Rome, Italy. He is an Adjunct Professor at Simon Fraser University, sits on the editorial board for the international journal Homicide Studies, and is a Full Fellow of the International Criminal Investigative Analysis Fellowship (ICIAF). Recently, Dr. Rossmo completed research projects on stranger rape and geo-demographics in the United Kingdom, and the applications of geographic profiling to insurgency problems in Iraq. He has just concluded a study on the geographic patterns of illegal land border crossings between the United States and Mexico to assist Border Patrol interdiction efforts. He is also writing a book on criminal investigative failures.