Mark Dunkley is a Visiting Fellow affiliated to Cranfield Forensic Institute (CFI), one of the ten or so Centres that make up Cranfield Defence and Security - one of the Schools of Cranfield University. He is an experienced archaeologist with research interests covering the exploitation of cultural heritage across the spectrum of conflict. He is a former public sector archaeologist specialising in the management of underwater cultural heritage and he has investigated archaeological sites across the UK, overseas, and underwater and has published widely on cultural heritage protection. He has also worked with Police Forces, Border Force and the Maritime and Coastguard Agency in the prosecution of heritage crime. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and a member of the UK National Commission for UNESCO's Expert Network. In 2014/15 he was the Heritage Consortium Fellow on the Clore Leadership Programme.