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

... How a New Illicit Economy is Threatening our Future (Princeton University Press, November 2018) on illicit trade and sustainability. She held a Fulbright and researched and taught on crime issues in Mexico. She has also taught on transnational crime in Italy. She is the recipient of the Guggenheim, NEH, IREX, Kennan Institute, and Fulbright and Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships and received MacArth...

Posted on 14 Nov 2017

Guillermo Vazquez del Mercado Almada

...ct in Central America which aims to understand extortion and strengthen resilience at the municipal and community level. He is also Associate Professor at CIDE where he co-coordinates the Violence in Mexico Studies Program. He has also collaborated for projects developed by international cooperation agencies such as UNODC, GIZ-Mexico and USAID contractors in Mexico and Guatemala. Guillermo lives in M...

Posted on 10 Nov 2017

Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera

Associate Professor, Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University

...orrea-Cabrera (Ph.D. in Political Science, The New School for Social Research) is Associate Professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University. Her areas of expertise are Mexico-U.S. relations, organized crime, immigration, border security, social movements and human trafficking. Her newest book is titled Los Zetas Inc.: Criminal Corporations, Energy, and Civil War in Mexico...

Posted on 10 Nov 2017

Gema Kloppe-Santamaría

Assistant Professor of Latin American History, George Washington University

...Dr. Gema Santamaría is Assistant Professor of Latin American History at George Washington University. Her areas of specialization include violence, insecurity, and vigilantism in Mexico and Central America. Santamaría holds a PhD in Sociology and Historical Studies from the New School for Social Research and a Master in Gender and Social Policy from the London School of Economics. ...

Posted on 10 Nov 2017

Gabriella E. Sanchez

Lead of Migrant Smuggling Research, Migration Policy Centre, European University Institute

...Smuggling Research”, Journal of Human Security and Migration, 5(1): 9-27. Sanchez, Gabriella (2016), “‘It’s all in their Brain’: Constructing the Figure of the Trafficking Victim on the US Mexico Border”, Anti-Trafficking Review, 7: 97-114. Sanchez, Gabriella (2016) “Women as Human Smuggling Facilitators: The case of the US Southwest”, Manwaring, Cetta and Brigden, Noelle, eds. Geopol...

Posted on 10 Nov 2017

Ernesto Savona

Director, Transcrime

...tatistical data to measure organized crime in the region(Ottobre 2011 – in corso), awarded by UNODC (Centre of Excellence for Statistics on Governance, Public Security, Victimization and Justice in Mexico) and INEGI (Instituto, National de Estatistica y Geografia), MEXICO (coordinatore); EU Survey to assess the level and impact of crimes against business – Phase 2: Piloting the survey module (Set...

Posted on 10 Nov 2017

Enrique Desmond Arias

Marxe Chair of Western Hemisphere Affairs, Baruch College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York

Posted on 10 Nov 2017

Dr. Edgardo Buscaglia

President, Instituto de Acción Ciudadana (Mexico City, México)/ Senior Scholar in Law and Economics, Columbia University (NY, USA)/ Visiting Senior Academic, Università degli Studi de Torino (Turin, Italy)/ Visiting Professor, Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires (Argentina)

...ing Senior Academic at Università degli Studi de Torino (Turin, Italy), a Visiting Professor at Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires (Argentina) and the President at Instituto de Acción Ciudadana (Mexico City, México). Since 1991, Dr. Edgardo Buscaglia has provided public policy advice to public and private sectors in 118 countries focused on counteracting/preventing complex economic transnational ...

Posted on 10 Nov 2017

Cecilia Farfán-Méndez

Head of Security Research Programs, Center for US-Mexican Studies / University of California San Diego

...o at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies. She also is an affiliated researcher with the Center for Studies on Security, Intelligence, and Governance (CESIG) at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de Mexico (ITAM) based in Mexico City. Farfán is an expert on organized crime and female participation in criminal groups, and co-founded the Mexico Violence Resource Project, an online platform providing ana...

Posted on 09 Nov 2017

Catalina Uribe Burcher

Peace and Development Specialist, UN Resident Coordinator's Office in Myanmar

...ión de la Democracia contra el Crimen Organizado: Elecciones, partidos políticos, democracia local y prestación de servicios’, In: Integridad electoral. México en perspectiva global, Flacso Mexico, 2019 ‘Political Finance in Mongolia: Assessment and recommendations‘, International IDEA and Open Society Forum, November 2018 ‘Helmets are not enough: What West Africa today tells...

Posted on 09 Nov 2017