John Collins

Director of Academic Engagement, Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

... project examining the intersection of drug policy reform and organized crime. John has focused on building research and policy capacity in a number of core GI-TOC focus areas, including West Africa, ukraine, Colombia, Brazil, East and Southeast Asia and Afghanistan. Before joining the GI, John was Founding Executive Director of the LSE’s International Drug Policy Unit (IDPU), a Fellow of the LSE US...

Posted on 26 Feb 2018

Mark Bishop

National Crime Agency, British High Commission, Australia

...ing two and a half years there building capacity and capability with the Afghan agencies to target the top end of organised crime, having previously been the Country Manager for Russia, Belarus & ukraine (2002-2006) for HM Customs & Excise, and Liaison Officer in Chicago, USA (1999-2002), also for HMCE. Previous jobs include on operational teams for HM Customs & Excise, working against money ...

Posted on 01 Feb 2018

Thi Hoang

... Interior of Montenegro and the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs of France, Tivat, Montenegro, 5-6 July 2022. ‘Human trafficking in conflict contexts – Case studies: Afghanistan and ukraine’. Alliance Expert Co-ordination Team Meeting, organized by the OSCE, Vienna and online, 5 July 2022. ‘Bride trafficking of Cambodian and Vietnamese women and girls into China’. 4th ...

Posted on 09 Jan 2018

Mark Galeotti

Director, Mayak Intelligence

... Forged in War (London: Bloomsbury/Osprey, 2024) Downfall: Prigozhin, Putin and the new fight for the future of Russia (London: Ebury, 2024), with Anna Arutunyan Putin’s Wars: from Chechnya to ukraine (Bloomsbury/Osprey, 2022) The Weaponisation of Everything (London, Yale University Press, 2022) A Short History of Russia (London, Penguin/Ebury, 2020) We Need To Talk About Putin (London, Penguin/Eb...

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

... crime and corruption. Dr. Shelley is also an editor (with Sally Stoecker) of Human Traffic and Transnational Crime: Eurasian and American Perspectives. From 1995-2014, she ran programs in Russia, ukraine and Georgia with leading specialists on the problems of organized crime and corruption. She has testified repeatedly before Congress. Professor Shelley served on the Global Agenda Council on Illicit ...

Posted on 14 Nov 2017

Jay Albanese

Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University

... Albanese, J. (2023). “Episode 111 Dr. Jay Albanese, Professor & Criminologist“. Fraudish podcast. Albanese, J. (2022). “Episode 6: Organized crime and corruption in ukraine“. LSE Crime Beyond Borders podcast. Albanese, J. (2022). “Theme 3: Criminologists Without Borders“. Vienna Alliance of NGOs. Albanese, J. (2021). “School of Criminal Justice I...

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)

...l crimes linked to political corruption and private sector corruption in, for example, Afghanistan, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Mexico, Nigeria, Russia, ukraine and Yemen. Dr. Buscaglia has published his findings as opinion editorials in well-known newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal, Washington Times, New York Times and Financial Times, among others...

Posted on 10 Nov 2017