Max Gallien
Senior Fellow, Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime
Director, Transcrime
Ernesto U. Savona is the Director of Transcrime, Joint Research Centre of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and the Università degli Studi di Trento and since 2003 professor of Criminology at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan. From 1986 to 2002 he was professor of Criminology at the Faculty of Law at the Università degli Studi di Trento. In 2003 he was appointed Editor in Chief of the European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, an international refereed Journal published by Springer. He is also Editor in chief of the series Research in Brief in International and Comparative Criminology published by Springer. He has been consultant to the United Nations, Council of Europe, the European Union and various national governments. He was also nominated President of the European Society of Criminology for the years 2003/2004. In June 2011 he was appointed Chair for the term 2011-2012 of the Global Agenda Council on Organized Crime del World Economic Forum. He is today member of the EU Commission experts group on ‘Policy needs for data on crime & criminal justice and of the expert group on Firearms”. He is part of the Academic Board of the SOCTA report (Europol). He has been coordinating many international projects financed by local, national and international entities. Furthermore, he takes part as speaker in many conferences and seminars at national and international level. He has published extensively on organized/economic crime, corruption, money laundering, mafias and prevention policies against organized crime, illicit markets. His last research interests are in finding indicators for the measurement of organized crime and its illicit activities in Europe and for the measurement of illicit markets.From 2016 to 2019 he will be the coordinator of the project PROTON (Modelling the PRocesses leading to Organised crime and TerrOrist Networks) awarded in January 2016 to Universita’ Cattolica-Transcrime under the EU Horizon 2020 programme.