Leadership
Rod Khattabi
Chairman
Former United States federal agent with over 20 years countering transnational organised crime, human trafficking and environmental crime. Chairman of ATI, and Law Enforcement Advisor to the Lusaka Agreement Task Force.
Background
Rod Khattabi is Chairman of Africa Transformational Initiative and Law Enforcement Advisor to the Lusaka Agreement Task Force.
He began his federal law enforcement career as a Special Agent with the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigations Division, and transferred as a Special Agent to the United States Customs Service in New York. He later oversaw the New Haven, Connecticut office of the Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Investigations.
Across more than twenty years in federal law enforcement he investigated and prosecuted international and domestic human trafficking, child exploitation, export violations, narcotics smuggling, complex financial crimes, money laundering and weapons trafficking.
He opened the March 2025 Dar es Salaam workshop on investigative techniques and port security alongside Tanzania's Deputy Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism and the Director of the Lusaka Agreement Task Force.