Lucia is the Director of the Observatory of Illicit Economies in West Africa at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime. Lucia provides strategic oversight for a complex research agenda focussing on the intersection of conflict and crime in West Africa. Lucia has published extensively on a range of organized crime types. Prior to joining the GITOC, Lucia worked as legal and policy adviser to the Planning and Development Department of the Punjab Government, Pakistan, and before that held the same role at the Ministry of Finance, Ghana.