Derek Congram

Derek Congram is a board-certified (DLAF, #20) forensic anthropologist and archaeologist, specializing in medico-legal and humanitarian applications.

His consulting, teaching, and research focus is on the investigation of disappeared persons: their location, identification, repatriation, and memorialization.

Derek has worked in more than 20 countries for universities, governments, non-governmental and international organizations, including the International Committee of the Red Cross, the United Nations, the International Criminal Court, and the United States Departments of Defense and Justice. His primary research interests are the Geographic Information Science (GIS) analysis of body disposal behaviour in conflict contexts, professional ethics, and enforced disappearance in Latin America. He promotes victim families as being central in forensic and humanitarian investigations. He is also a recovering long-distance runner and has never eaten a Big Mac.