Internationally acclaimed lecturer, author and educator Phil Arkow is Executive Director of the National LINK Coalition – the Global Resource Center on The LINK between Animal Abuse and Human Violence. He also serves as President & Secretary and edits the monthly LINK-Letter, with over 5,600 subscribers. He chairs the Latham Foundation’s Animal Abuse and Family Violence Prevention Project. He teaches at the University of Florida and Harcum College. He has presented over 400 times in 17 countries, 38 states and 9 Canadian provinces, and has authored over 100 key reference works on human-animal interactions and violence prevention. 

He co-founded the National Link Coalition, the National Animal Control Association, and the Colorado and New Jersey humane federations. He has served with the National Sheriffs Association’s National Coalition on Violence Against Animals, the American Veterinary Medical Association, the ASPCA, American Humane, the Delta Society, the Animals & Society Institute, the National District Attorneys Association, the Academy on Violence & Abuse, the National Council of Juvenile & Family Court Judges, and the American Association of Human-Animal Bond Veterinarians. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from New Jersey Child Assault Prevention and the Heart of Veterinary Social Work Award from the International Association of Veterinary Social Work. He was awarded an Honorary Diplomate by the American Veterinary One Health Society.