Tuesday Reitano

Deputy Director, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

... of policy orientated and academic reports with leading institutions such as the UN, World Bank and OECD on topics ranging from organized crime’s evolution and impact in Africa, on human smuggling, illicit financial flows, and the nexus between crime, terrorism, security and development. She is the author of an OECD flagship publication: Illicit Financial Flows: Criminal Economies in West Africa, co-author of Migrant,...

Posted on 20 Dec 2017

Mark Shaw

Director, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

Posted on 20 Dec 2017

Virginia Comolli

Head of Pacific Programme, Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

...search Manager for the ‘Anticipating and Disrupting Environmental Crime in the Globalized Economy’ programme,  conducting, commissioning and managing original research on environmental crime and illicit financial flows relating to environmental commodities in Africa and Asia. She was then appointed Senior Expert within the Asia Pacific Observatory conducting research on, among others, child sexual exploitation and ...

Posted on 15 Nov 2017

Roberto Sollazzo

Expert on Natural Resources and Finance / Former member of the UN Group of experts on the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Côte d'Ivoire

...he OECD due diligence guidance (support to non-state armed groups, human rights abuses, money laundering and corruption). He contributed to a research with the Small Arms Survey on trafficking and illicit financial flows between Côte d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso and Mali. From January to March 2018, he prepared materials and delivered modules of a training on governance in the mining sector for CSOs in Côte d’Ivoire,...

Posted on 15 Nov 2017

Nikos Passas

Professor, Northeastern University

Posted on 14 Nov 2017

Louise Shelley

Omer L. and Nancy Hirst Endowed Chair Director, Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TraCCC)/ University Professor, Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University

...elationship among terrorism, organized crime and corruption as well as human trafficking, transnational crime and terrorism with a particular focus on the former Soviet Union. She also specializes in illicit financial flows and money laundering. She has recently completed an inaugural Andrew Carnegie Fellowship during which she wrote her book Dark Commerce: How a New Illicit Economy is Threatening our Future (Princeton ...

Posted on 14 Nov 2017

Emmanuel Mayah

Founder, Satellite Times

...“ an investigative documentary on Multiple Taxation in Nigeria’s Informal Sector – a project funded also by Oxfam Novib. Emmanuel Mayah has had several speaking engagements such as speaking on ‘illicit financial flows/Leakages and Inequality in Nigeria’ at a policy dialogue on inequality in Nigeria 2005; ‘Nexus between Crime, Corruption and Governance (Senegal 2014); ‘Africa and Emerging Countries: New Geopo...

Posted on 10 Nov 2017

Charles Togarepi Goredema

Consultant and Director, Informed Solutions to Economic Crime in Africa (ISECA)

...Bank, the African Legal Support Facility and the Intergovernmental Action Group against Money Laundering in West Africa (GIABA) to develop (or monitor the implementation of) strategic plans targeting illicit financial flows. Charles is a lawyer by profession, holding qualifications from the University of Zimbabwe and the University of London....

Posted on 10 Nov 2017

Alessandra Fontana

Specialist Compliance Officer, BNP Paribas

...olicies in these areas as well as conducted applied research and policy analysis on the topic. She has worked for the OECD focusing on efforts undertaken by the international community in the area of illicit financial flows as well as managing projects in corruption prevention in the Middle East and North Africa region (for Tunisia, Morocco and the Palestinian Authority). She was also an advisor for the U4 Anti-Corrupti...

Posted on 09 Nov 2017