Damien Spleeters

Damien Spleeters is an internationally recognized expert in supply chain diversion, illicit procurement networks, and export control enforcement, with 15 years of operational and analytical experience supporting governments and industry. His work focuses on one core question: how weapons, dual-use technologies, and commercial goods move from legitimate markets to unauthorized or sanctioned recipients—and how those supply chains can be proactively strengthened and made resilient to prevent diversion before it occurs. Operating at the intersection of conflict forensics, global trade, and national security, Spleeters has built a rare practice that converts physical evidence recovered in conflict zones into actionable supply chain intelligence. Across hundreds of deployments in Iraq, Syria, Libya, Mali, Mexico, Ukraine, and Yemen, he has investigated the diversion of tens of thousands of weapons systems and components—ranging from small arms and ammunition to guided missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles, electronics, and chemical precursors—systematically identifying their origin, production history, and procurement pathways. By linking battlefield artifacts to manufacturers, distributors, brokers, and intermediaries, his work has exposed the commercial and logistical networks that enable proliferation and sanctions evasion.