Jason G Tower is a senior expert at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC), where he works on organized crime, security and illicit economies in Southeast Asia, with a particular focus on Myanmar and China. Since 2019, Jason has been at the forefront of cutting edge research on the rise of criminal enclaves hosting industrial scale scam operations across the region and has published a series of reports highlighting the involvement of armed actors and China origin transnational crime groups in these activities. Jason’s work on online scams, casino crimes, illicit economies and conflict in Myanmar has been featured in over 100 media outlets, and he has testified on multiple occasions before the U.S. Congress on these issues. Jason served previously as Myanmar Country director for the United States Institute of Peace, and has held senior positions at PeaceNexus and the American Friends Service Committee. He is also a Visiting Fellow at the Faculty of Politics at Chulalongkorn University.