Jovan Nicić
Director, Prospector DOO Belgrade
Researcher, World Customs Organization & Associate Professor, Auvergne University School of Economics
Thomas Cantens joined the French Customs service in 1997 where he occupied a number of positions in investigation and intelligence units and at Customs’ Headquarters. Before joining the WCO Research Unit in 2010, he served as a Technical Advisor to the Directors General of the Malian Customs and Cameroon Customs Administrations for 6 years. He is also a lecturer at the Auvergne University School of Economics (France) since 2012, where he teaches social anthropology applied to international trade governance and taxation. His current work focuses on corruption and violence, the use of public quantification in anti-corruption policies and the restoration of the State and its role in the circulation of wealth at fragile borders. His main fieldworks are in Africa and in the MENA region. Thomas has a degree in engineering, a Master in Philosophy and a PhD in Social Anthropology and Ethnology from Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris).