Josefina Salomon
Co-Founder and Editorial Director, In.Visibles
Analyst, Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime
Shanti is an Analyst at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime. She works on the intersection between conflict sensitivity, organized crime and protection issues in Libya and contributes to the North Africa and Sahel Observatory’s research on the regional political economy of illicit markets.
Shanti is specializing in peace and conflict dynamics, human rights and gender-specific issues in the context of euro-Mediterranean relations and regional geo-politics.
She holds two MA degrees, one in International Security and Middle Eastern Studies from SciencesPo Paris and one in Political Science from the Freie Universität Berlin. She also holds a double BA degree in Social and Political science from SciencesPo Paris in Nancy and the Freie Universität in Berlin. She is fluent in Italian, German, English and French, and speaks conversational Spanish and Arabic.