Charmain Gooch co-founded the NGO Global Witness in 1993 with Simon Taylor and Patrick Alley in 1993 in response to increasing concerns about warfare covert financed by illegal trade. Since then, Global Witness has exposed corruption in “blood diamonds” in Uganda, minerals in the Congo, and timber trade between Cambodia and Thailand. In 2014, Ms. Gooch received the TED Prize and Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship.