SPEAKERS


Thomas_Abt

Thomas is Thomas Abt teaches, studies, and writes about the use of evidence-informed approaches to address violent crime and other public safety problems. He is the author of Bleeding Out: The Devastating Consequences of Urban Violence - and a Bold New Plan for Peace in the Streets, published by Basic Books in June 2019. Abt is a Senior Fellow with the Council on Criminal Justice where he directs the National Commission on COVID-19 and Criminal Justice. Prior to the Council, he served as a Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School and held leadership positions in the New York Governor's Office and the U.S. Department of Justice. Abt’s work has been featured in the Atlantic, the Economist, Foreign Affairs, the New Yorker, the New York Times, CNN, MSNBC, PBS, and National Public Radio. His TED talk on saving lives by stopping violence has been viewed more than 185,000 times.


Katherine Aguirre

Katherine is a PhD student in Political and Social Sciences at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She holds a BA in International Relations from the Federal University of Latin American Integration (UNILA), a diploma course in Drug Policy, Health and Human Rights from the Center for Economic Research and Teaching (CIDE), México and a MSc in Defense and Security Strategic Studies from the Federal Fluminense University (UFF) of Rio de Janeiro. She previously worked as a researcher in the area of drug policy and citizen security at the Igarapé Institute, Brazil.


Alberto Aziani

Alberto is Assistant Professor of Criminology at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and Research Fellow at Transcrime, Milan. His main research interests are transnational illegal markets, organized crime, illicit financial flows. On these topics, he has conducted studies and developed projects for international organizations and funding institutions.


Hervé Borrion

Hervé is Deputy Head of Department at the UCL Department of Security and Crime Science. He pursued his postgraduate education at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Aéronautique et de l’Espace in France and at University College London. He contributes his expertise in systems modelling to better understand and address crime problems ranging from poaching to terrorism through cybercrime. A strong advocate of problem-oriented and engineering methodologies, he has held advisory positions on various committees including the EU Centre for National Infrastructure Protection, MoRiLE harm matrix project, UK Council for Graduate Education and the Open University Policing Centre. Currently, he devotes most of his research time to support the National Police of Colombia during the COVID-19 crisis.


Edward Bradon

Edward is the director of the Behavioural Insights Team's Home Affairs, Security and International Development practice. Since joining the team in London in 2014, Edward has worked to establish the international footprint of behavioural insights, first as a founding member of BIT's first overseas office in Sydney, Australia, and then across the Asia-Pacific region. He leads the team's work on crime, justice and violence prevention, and his team specialises in the use of experimental methods to generate new evidence in these areas.


Roderic Broadhurst

Emeritus Professor of Criminology, School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet), and Fellow Research School of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University (ANU). He is Director of the ANU Cybercrime Observatory. He was the Deputy Director of the Australian Research Council, Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security, ANU. Hon. Professor at Griffith University (2008-2010) and the University of Hong Kong (2005-2009). He was Secretary and Chair of the Hong Kong Criminology Society (1998-2006), Head of the School of Justice (Queensland University of Technology 2005-2008), external assessor City University of Hong Kong (2004-2014) and non-residential fellow of the Korean Institute of Criminology (2017-2019). He was also founding fellow of the Hong Kong Centre for Criminology (1998), associate editor of the ANZ Journal of Criminology (1999-2004; editorial board 2012-) and foundation editor of the Asian Journal of Criminology (2005). He is also on the editorial board of Global Crime, Pakistan Journal of Criminology, and the International Journal of Cyber Criminology. His career as a criminal justice practitioner and researcher spans over 45 years and has included work in prisons, remote area public health, crime statistics, organized crime, homicide and cybercrime.


Flavia Bustreo

Dr. Flavia Bustreo is a leading physician, public health professional and advocate for the health and human rights of women, children, adolescents and the elderly, and is known for taking action on the social and environmental determinants of health, including the health impacts of climate change. She is currently the Vice Chair of Fondation Botnar and Chair of the Governance and Nomination Committee at the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH). Previously, Dr. Flavia Bustreo was Assistant Director- General for Family, Women’s and Children’s Health for the World Health Organization (WHO) from 2010 to 2017, and also served as co-Chair of the Board of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, from 2015 to 2017. At WHO she led the organization’s work in reproductive, maternal, child, and adolescent health, climate change, aging, vaccinations, health, human rights, gender equity, and the social determinants of health.
Previously, Dr Bustreo served in a variety of roles at WHO, UNICEF, the World Bank, and as Interim Deputy Director of the Child Survival Partnership and Special Advisor to the Prime Minister of Norway helping shape the government’s 1 billion USD contribution to infant and child health. Dr Bustreo has worked in several countries, including assignments for WHO country and regional offices in Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Morocco, Peru, the Philippines, Senegal, Sudan and Uganda. She has published numerous academic and popular articles, chapters in books on public health, and women’s and children’s health and rights. Dr. Bustreo’s contributions to global health have been recognized with numerous awards, including an honorary doctorate from the University of Essex in 2018.


Paolo Campana

Paolo Campana is a University Lecturer in Criminology and Complex Networks at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge (UK). His work specialises in organised crime, human trafficking and people smuggling. Moreover, he has a strong interest in the application of network analysis techniques to the study of organised forms of criminality.
Paolo is currently working on the issue of the trafficking and smuggling of human beings into Europe, the movement and emergence of Mafia-like organisations and their impact on local communities, as well as the study of violence networks. His work has appeared in the British Journal of Criminology, Social Networks, Crime & Justice, Nature Sustainability, Theoretical Criminology, European Journal of Criminology, Rationality and Society, European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, Journal of Drug Issues, Policing, Trends in Organised Crime, Global Crime, and Methodological Innovations, and it has been translated into Chinese, French and Italian.


Ali Cheema

Ali is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). He serves as the Faculty Director of the Mahbub Ul Haq Research Centre (MHRC) at LUMS and is a Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of Development and Economic Alternatives (IDEAS). He is also a co-lead academic of the International Growth Center’s (IGC) Pakistan programme and a co-founder of the Center for Economic Research in Pakistan (CERP). His areas of interest include political economy, institutions and citizen trust and the economics of crime. His current research involves partnerships with government and civil society organizations in Pakistan and combines extensive fieldwork, field experiments, rigorous empirical analysis, and historical archival research to answer critical questions in these areas. He holds a PhD in Economics from Cambridge and a BA (Hons.) in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) from Oxford where has was a Rhodes Scholar. He was also a founding member of the Stockholm Challenge Award winning portal, Relief Information System for Earthquakes, Pakistan (RISEPAK).


Robert Cull

Robert is acting research manager and Lead Economist in the Finance and Private Sector Development Team of the World Bank's Development Research Group. His most recent research is on the performance of microfinance institutions, African financial development, Chinese financial development and firm performance, and the effects of the global financial crisis on foreign banks and on bank regulation and supervision in developing economies. He has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed academic journals including in the Economic Journal, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Law and Economics, and the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking. The author or editor of multiple books, his most recent co-edited book, “Banking the World: Empirical Foundations of Financial Inclusion” was published by MIT Press January, 2013. He is also co-editor of the Interest Bearing Notes, a bi-monthly newsletter reporting on financial and private sector research.


Alyssa Currier Wheeler

Alyssa Currier Wheeler is associate legal counsel for The Human Trafficking Institute (HTI), where she oversees human trafficking prevalence studies in Belize and Uganda. She also co-authors HTI’s annual Federal Human Trafficking Report, directs the legal fellowship program, and provides leadership for HTI’s strategic litigation. In 2019, Alyssa served as HTI’s acting special counsel in Uganda’s Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. Prior to joining HTI, she was a legal fellow at the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, where she managed the U.S. Protection and Solution Unit’s portfolio of urgent petitions for agency intervention from persons of concern. Alyssa has represented victims of war crimes before the International Criminal Court; advocated on behalf of forcibly displaced women with International Justice Mission in Uganda; and worked for the refugee program at Human Rights Watch. In law school, she provided direct legal services to asylum-seekers and other migrants, including human trafficking survivors, with the Immigration Clinic, International Refugee Assistance Project, and Tahirih Justice Center.


Meredith Dank

Meredith is a Research Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. Her areas of focus include human trafficking, teen dating violence, LGBTQ issues, victimization, and qualitative methods. She has served as principal investigator on over two dozen human trafficking studies, many of which have been funded by the Department of Justice, US Department of State, Department of Health and Human Services and private foundations. Her research has covered the labor and sex trafficking of adults and children, both in the United States and overseas. Dr. Dank has conducted research in over a dozen countries, including India, Nepal, Vietnam, Uganda, Belize, Cambodia, Brazil and the Philippines. She has also participated in a number of federal level stakeholder meetings on trafficking, including a White House stakeholder meeting on victim services for survivors. She holds a Ph. D. in criminal justice from John Jay College. She is the author of The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (LFB Publishing, 2011).


Manuel Eisner

I studied history at the University of Zurich and hold a PhD in sociology. I have published several authored or edited books and over 100 journal articles and book chapters in English, German, Spanish and French. My academic work revolves around the explanation of the causes, the consequences and the prevention of interpersonal violence across human societies. My research tries to contribute to the following questions: How can we describe and explain variation in levels of violence between societies and over the course of human history? What psychological and social mechanisms account for change and stability of violent behaviour over the life course? What combination of prevention, intervention and control is best suited to reduce interpersonal violence in different societies across the world?
I am a member of several editorial and advisory boards of academic journals and book series. I have also been working as an expert or co-author of reports with national governments, the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the World Bank and UNODC. I was awarded the Fellowship of the Society of Experimental Criminology and the Sellin-Glueck award by the American Society of Criminology. In 2014, I have organised, with the World Health Organization, the First Global Conference on Violence Reduction at the University of Cambridge. I was awarded the 2017 ESC European Criminology Award for my lifetime contribution to European criminology.


Laarni Escresa

Laarni is an Associate Professor at the School of Economics University of the Philippines and held research fellowships at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, European University Institute and University of Hamburg.


Patricio Estévez-Soto

Patricio is a Lecturer at the UCL Department Security and Crime Science. He holds a BA in Communication Science, a Master in Public Policy, and an MRes and PhD in Security and Crime Science. Before joining University College London, Patricio worked in Mexico’s Ministry of the Interior, where he was part of a government-led effort to promote scientific research on security. Later, he became a policy adviser to the Ministry’s Head of Strategic Planning. His research interests include: situational crime prevention, organized crime, quantitative criminology, and repeat victimisation. He is a member of the Network of Experts of the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime and a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society.


Dabney P. Evans

Dabney is an Associate Professor of Global Health in the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. She is a mixed-methods researcher focused on the health and human rights of women and girls. Dr. Evans received her Master of Public Health degree in 1998 from Emory University and her doctoral degree in law from the University of Aberdeen (UK) in 2011.
Dr. Evans’ current research projects focus on gender-based violence, and sexual and reproductive health and rights. Her global research portfolio includes projects on: intimate partner violence during the COVID-19 pandemic (US); the commercial sexual exploitation of children (US); obstetric violence and birth injury (US); femicide prevention (Brazil); and femicide perpetration (Argentina).
An editor of the text, Rights-Based Approaches to Health, Dr. Evans has advanced human rights discourse across a range of public health issues. Dr. Evans has published over forty book chapters, scholarly articles and commissioned works; she has made over 200 peer-reviewed and invited presentations. Her public scholarship has appeared in the Pacific Standard, the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Ms. Magazine and The Hill, where she is a regular contributor; in 2015 she presented a TEDx talk. She is on several editorial boards.


Cristina Fabre Rosell

Bachelor of Social and Cultural Anthropology and in Educational Sciences. Post-graduated specialization on Applied Social Research and Data Analyst, by the Spanish Sociological Research Center (CIS).
She joined the European Institute for Gender Equality in December 2018, although she had worked at the Institute as Seconded National Expert in several occasions, from 2013. Currently, she is coordinating the Gender-based Violence program, acting as Team Leader and managing the projects related to administrative data collection on specific forms of gender-based violence and advancing the measurement and the conceptual framework of femicide.
As civil servant, she joined the Spanish Council for the Judiciary in 1997. She was appointed Head of Unit of the Observatory against Domestic and Gender-based Violence, and member of the Equal Rights Commission of the Spanish General Council for the Judiciary in 2003. Among other duties she was in charge of the analysis of the judicial datasets on GBV and of judicial reports on femicide and institutional responses to GBV.
As a gender consultant, she contributed, among others, to the projects on establishing a Gender-based Violence Measurement Framework in Central America and on Strengthening the Victims’ Rights in Criminal Justice System in Turkey (leaded by FIIAPP).


Ali Farhoudian

Ali joined the Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) faculty as an associate professor of psychiatry in 2018 after nearly twelve years being a faculty at the University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences. During these over 15 years he dedicated his career to research on substance use disorders more specifically treatment and harm reduction as the director of Substance abuse and Dependence Research Center for a while. In parallel, education in the field of addiction psychiatry to the post graduate students including Masters, PhD candidates, and psychiatric residents was a great scale of his job. He also spent a large amount of his professional time in clinical intervention on people with psychiatric disorders with the majority of clients with addictive behaviors in the substance use treatment ward of Rouzbeh psychiatric hospital, an outpatients’ substance use treatment center, and his own psychiatric private clinic. At the current time, he is also the vice chairman of the board directors and corresponding person with ISAM of Iranian Institute for Science and Technology of Addiction (ISAM affiliated Iranian society). He conducted several national and one global research projects on addiction psychiatry including health Services research and advised tens of theses and dissertations. Before being a faculty of the universities, he spent two years at the mental health department of National Medical Research Center of Iran after being graduated in psychiatry from TUMS.


Salomé Flores Sierra Franzoni

Salomé is the Head of UNODC’s Center of Excellence and the Program to Prevent and Counter Corruption at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in Mexico. Prior to this position, she served as Advisor to the Vice-Presidency of Public Security, Justice and Comptroller Affairs at INEGI, dealing with issues related to victimization surveys and public security statistics. Previously, she held several positions related to Good Governance and Regulatory Improvement at the Ministry of Public Administration.
She holds a bachelor’s degree in International Relations from the University of the Americas - Puebla, a master’s degree in Public Administration from the University of Canberra and a master's degree in Applied Statistics and Strategic Management from the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico.
At the international level she has participated in various programs focused on crime, corruption and governance such as the International Leadership Visitors Program (ILVP) of the United States Department of State, and has been a Chevening Fellow at the University of Bradford in the United Kingdom, conducting a research stay on Public Sector Reform and Public Services.


Adrián Franco Barrios

Adrián holds a Master's degree in Management and Public Policy from the University of Manchester in England; a Master's degree in Public Administration from the Center for Economic Research and Education (CIDE); and a Bachelor's degree in Political Science and Public Administration from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
From 1997 to 2009, he held various positions in the Federal Public Administration, mainly related to the fight against corruption as well as the improvement and evaluation of government performance. From 2009 to 2019, he served as head of Government, Public Security and Justice Statistics at the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI).
Since January 2019, he has been Vice President of INEGI’s Governing Board in charge of the National Subsystem of Information on Government, Public Security and Administration of Justice.


Donna Gregory

Donna is the Unit Chief at the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) under the FBI Cyber Division, Cyber Operations V Section and leads a Unit of approximately 35 Cyber and Criminal Division staff. UC Gregory has served with the FBI for 26 years, entering on duty July 1994. Her primary focus is working with both the private and public sector to develop effective alliances, define growing trends, and ensure IC3 filed information is processed for investigative and intelligence purposes for law enforcement and public awareness. She has been with the IC3 since its development in 2000.


Alexandra Habershon

Alexndra is a Senior Governance Specialist in the Governance Global Practice of the World Bank, where she leads research and global policy engagement activities on anticorruption, including most recently on the use of data analytics to advance the analysis of corruption and the effectiveness of anticorruption policies. She is an expert on a range of anticorruption policy areas, including income and asset declaration systems, conflict of interest prevention regulations, beneficial ownership transparency, whistleblower protections and complaint mechanisms, and provides assistance to governments to help them address technical, institutional and political economy challenges in their implementation. She is the World Bank Observer on the Board of the Infrastructure Transparency Initiative (CoST). In her previous role she was Program Coordinator of Preventive Services and Corporate Initiatives for the World Bank’s Integrity Vice Presidency, and from 2012 - 2018 was Coordinator of the World Bank’s International Corruption Hunters Alliance (ICHA) – a global alliance of anticorruption practitioners. She has been a contributing author to World Bank and Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative (StAR) publications. Alexandra has a Ph.D. in Cultural Studies from Georgetown University.


Andrea Hughes

Andrea is a Research Associate at John Jay College of Criminal Justice focusing on human trafficking and domestic violence. She has served as Research Associate and Project Manager for multiple domestic and international research projects on sex and labor trafficking and domestic violence. Ms. Hughes is a licensed social worker with extensive experience supervising programs that serve survivors of domestic violence, human trafficking, sexual assault, and homicide. She has served as a trauma therapist for complexly traumatized children and adults who were victims of domestic violence, child abuse, and other crimes. Ms. Hughes has prior research experience implementing and evaluating evidence-based practices in child welfare systems.


Oscar Jaimes Bello

Oscar holds a Bachelor’s degree in Administration from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, a Master’s degree in Economic and Social Studies from the University of Manchester, and a PhD in Social and Political Science from the Ibero-American University in Mexico.
He has participated in courses related to public management and transparency taught by the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE); as well as an anti-corruption course at the Central European University, based in Budapest, Hungary.
He has also served in the public sector as: Director of Studies of Transparency at the Ministry of Public Administration; Director of Sectoral Coordination at the Inter-secretarial Commission for Transparency and the Fight Against Corruption; Advisor on the Programs for the Extension of Health Service Coverage and Deputy Head of Planning and Analysis at the Ministry of Health. Since 2009 he works for the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), where he currently serves as General Director for Governance, Crime and Justice Statistics. He supervises and coordinates the design, data collection and processing of statistical information, through surveys, censuses and administrative records of issues regarding: governance, public security, victimization, violence, justice and human rights.


Yunsik “Jake” Jang

Yunsik “Jake” Jang is Associate Professor of Legal Informatics and Forensic Science at the faculty of Global Integrated Studies of the Hallym University, Chuncheon, South Korea. He received M.A. in Law and Ph.D. in information security from the Korea University. His research is situated in the filed of technology-driven crimes and responses, with a special focus on cyber policing, digital forensics and international cooperation.
Before joining Hallym University in 2015, he served in the Korean National Police for 20 years. As the first cybercrime specialist certified by the commissioner of Korean Police and the head of hacking investigation team, he was in charge of national level cybersecurity incident investigation for years in the Korean National Police Agency. In the Korean National Police University, he taught and researched cybercrime and other subjects, and founded the International Cybercrime Research Center to direct research and international cooperation projects in cybercrime area, most notably, for helping developing countries to improve cyber policing capacity. In the projects, he developed and implemented cybercrime training courses for officials from more than 60 countries. He was awarded a commendation from the president of Korea for his dedication on cybercrime law enforcement in 2012.


Craig Jones

With 29 years of law enforcement experience, Craig Jones leads INTERPOL’s Cybercrime Directorate and the Senior Responsible Owner (SRO) for its Global Cybercrime Programme. Aimed at reducing the global impact of cybercrime and protecting communities for a safer world, the Programme focuses on three core pillars of cybercrime threat response, cybercrime operations, and cyber capabilities development for law enforcement worldwide.
Mr Jones oversees the Programme and its activities to deliver outcomes that are in line with the Programme’s objectives at the tactical, operational and strategic levels. He puts great emphasis on Public-Private Partnership to augment cybercrime datasets to deliver the most accurate and effective cybercrime intelligence and operational support for member countries. He coordinates regional and global working groups with Heads of Cybercrime Units in member countries to provide tailored support pertaining to the regional needs and challenges.
He also manages several externally funded projects within the Programme such as Cyber Foundation Project, Global Action on Cybercrime Extended (GLACY+), ASEAN Cyber Capacity Development Project Phase 2 (ACCDP 2) and ASEAN Joint Operations Against Cybercrime (ASEAN Desk). Previously, he has successfully delivered multi-million European and UK’s national projects, designed to increase cyber capabilities and capacity at the national, regional and international levels. Additionally, he worked on the international capacity framework project of the Global Forum for Cyber Expertise and the Partnership Against Cybercrime initiative of the World Economic Forum. He holds a number of advisory roles including the World Economic Forum’s Centre for Cybersecurity and the Cybercrime Regional Stakeholder for Caribbean Community Implementing Agency for Crime and Security as well as global think tanks.
Prior to joining INTERPOL, Mr Jones held several senior operational and coordination management positions in the UK law enforcement, most recently at the National Crime Agency in the UK. In this capacity, he coordinated UK’s law enforcement response to the National Cyber Security Programme, which underpinned the UK’s National Cyber Security Strategy. Mr Jones is recognized as a strategic thinker, shaping policies that deliver outcomes and results against national, regional and global cyber strategies. He also anticipates and forecasts the long-term impact of national and international developments in the economic, political, environmental, social and technological domains on the rapidly evolving global cybercrime threat landscape.


Catherine Kaukinen

Katie is a Sociologist who takes a cross-national and comparative perspective to examine broad interests related to VAW. Her 20+ year career has examined all aspects of violence against women. This includes research focused on the developmental antecedents and long-term consequences of violence against women; victim coping, resilience, help-seeking, and decision-making; victims’ engagement with victim service agencies and the criminal justice system; and the implementation and evaluation of victimization policies, procedures, prevention, and intervention. She has received extensive extramural funding from federal and state agencies, recently published a book on addressing violence against women on college campuses, and has contributed to theory and research through her work on the consequences of violent victimization and victim decision making. Dr. Kaukinen is an award recognized scholar, honored by her national disciplinary organizations 2020 Coramae Richey Mann Leadership Award from the Minorities and Women Section of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences; 2019 American Society of Criminology Division on Women and Crime Distinguished Scholar Award; and 2019 American Society of Criminology Division of Victimology Bonnie S. Fisher Victimology Career Achievement Award). She collaborated with college and university colleagues on a successfully funded violence against women (VAW) faculty research cluster in which she serves as co-lead. In addition to traditional scholarship, she has dedicated her career towards public criminology and reducing the incidence and impact of violence against women through her research and violence prevention programming. She has received over $2.2 million in grants and contracts, with the majority of these sponsored programs as a principal investigator to support her work addressing VAW. Her expertise is often called upon to serve as an expert witness in cases related to violence against women in the United States and Canada. She provided a report and testified in the matter styled Barbara Schilfer Commemorative Clinic v. Attorney General of Canada (repeal of the firearms registry for non-restricted firearms - declaration that the legislation violated sections 7 and 15 of the Charter). She served as an expert witness in the matter of Doe v. Northern Kentucky University - a Civil Rights Title IX Case in Federal Court in the State of Kentucky. Most recently, she prepared an affidavit in the case of Munn v. Our Lady of Bellefonte Hospital (a sexual assault case in civil court in the state of Kentucky).


KiDeuk_Kim

KiDeuk is a senior fellow in the Justice Policy Center at the Urban Institute, where he leads multidisciplinary research teams to examine issues related to criminal justice interventions and policies. He has extensive research experience and national expertise in actuarial decisionmaking in criminal justice, criminal case processing, and policy evaluations. His work has been sponsored by several branches of the US Department of Justice, state and local governments, academic and scientific institutions, and private-sector entities. He was a visiting fellow at the US Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics from 2015 to 2018. Before joining Urban, Kim was a senior researcher for the State of New York, providing strategic planning and research oversight for numerous task forces on criminal justice issues. His current research focuses on promoting data-driven decisionmaking in the criminal justice system and translating empirical research into policy recommendations. His research has appeared in prominent academic journals and has been cited in elite media outlets.


Dae-Hoon Kwak

Dae-Hoon is an Associate Professor in the School of Integrated National Security at Chungnam National University (CNU) in Daejeon, South Korea. He is also an Associate Dean of Graduate School of Peace & Security Studies at CNU. He earned his Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from Michigan State University and holds a master’s degree in criminology & criminal justice from University of Nebraska at Omaha. Dr. Kwak came to CNU in 2014 after having taught university courses at Illinois State University and Texas A&M International University for six years. His primary research interests include crime statistics, communities and crime, comparative criminal justice, policing and sentencing process. Recent publications appear in Journal of Criminal Justice, International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management and Violence and Victims among others.


Kilkon Ko

Kilkon is professor of Graduate School of Public Administration, Seoul National University. He is a member of the National Economic Advisory Council of President and Editor-in-Chief of Asian Journal of Political Science. He is also associate director of University Innovation Center of Seoul National University. His research area is corruption, policy evaluation, and quantitative analysis. He has published his books and articles on efficiency analysis, categorical data analysis, Chinese corruption, and crisis management.


Rachel Locke

Rachel is Director of Impact:Peace at the Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, University of San Diego. Impact:Peace works with change makers in the peacebuilding and violence prevention space, harnessing knowledge, evidence and research to super-charge processes that can make a meaningful difference in advancing peace. Prior to joining IPJ, Locke was Head of Research for violence prevention with the Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies at New York University's Center on International Cooperation. Locke previously served as Senior Policy Advisor with the US Agency for International Development where she developed and represented agency-wide policy on issues concerning conflict, violence and fragility. She has also published a variety of articles and other works focusing on violence prevention, humanitarian aid, conflict and transnational organized crime.


Jens Ludwig

Jens Ludwig is the Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor of Public Policy at the University of Chicago, co-director of the National Bureau of Economic Research’s working group on the economics of crime, and director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab, which he helped found 10 years ago to work closely with local government to reduce both crime and the harms of the justice system. Crime Lab research was credited by the Washington Post as one of the motivating factors behind President Obama’s My Brother’s Keeper initiative. Crime Lab projects have been featured in national news outlets such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, NPR and PBS News Hour; the Crime Lab is also a past recipient of a $1 million MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions. Ludwig serves on the editorial board of the American Economic Review, was a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on the Neurobiological and Socio-behavioral Science of Adolescent Development and Its Applications, and is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine of the National Academies of Science.


María Maras

Dr. Marie-Helen (Maria) Maras is a tenured Associate Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. She is also a faculty member of the MS program in Digital Forensics and Cybersecurity at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the PhD program in Criminal Justice at the CUNY Graduate Center. She holds a DPhil in Law and an MPhil and MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of Oxford, as well as graduate and undergraduate degrees from the University of New Haven and UMUC. Her academic background and research cover cybercrime and other forms of transnational crime, cybersecurity, data protection, and the legal, political, social, cultural, and economic impact of digital technology. Dr. Maras is the author of numerous peer-reviewed academic journal articles and books, the most recent of which is Cybercriminology, published by Oxford University Press.


Roberto Martínez Barranco Kukutschka

Roberto is a PhD candidate at the Hertie School in Berlin and works as Research Coordinator for Transparency International. At the European Research Centre for Anti-Corruption and State-Building - ERCAS, he conducted research for the large-scale EU-funded Projects ANTICORRP and DIGIWHIST. Roberto is a governance and anti-corruption expert with over ten years of experience and with a special interest in the measurement of corruption and the distortions that corruption causes on the market. Besides his experience in the NGO and academic sectors, Roberto has also worked for the public sector in Mexico and has served as a consultant for a number of development agencies, as well as for the European Commission and the Council of Europe.


Angela Me

Of Italian nationality, Angela holds a PhD in Statistics from the University of Padua, Italy. She currently serves as Chief of the Research and Trend Analysis Branch at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, where she supervises global, regional and national research in the areas of drugs (drug markets, supply, demand and trafficking) and crime (particularly violent and other conventional crimes, transnational organized crime, trafficking in persons and corruption).
She is responsible for publications that are the international point of reference for information on drugs and crime, such as the World Drug Report, the Global Report on Trafficking in Persons and the Global Study on Homicide. She has more than 18 years of experience in the United Nations, having worked for the United Nations Statistics Division, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. She has authored, contributed to, and supervised the production of a large number of publications, including analytical reports, international statistical standards, working papers and intergovernmental documents on drugs, crime, population, gender, disability and migration. She has worked in various advisory committees, including the Scientific Committee of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights.


Marika McAdam

Marika is an independent legal consultant, scholar and adviser who has worked with UNODC, IOM, OHCHR, Chatham House, and the NEXUS Institute among others. She is currently serving as international law and policy adviser for both the ASEAN-Australia Counter-Trafficking, and the Bali Process Regional Support Office on people smuggling, trafficking in persons and related transnational crime. She has trained police, prosecutors and judges; advised senators and parliamentarians; and carried out counter-trafficking legislative assessments in Southeast Asia, the South Caucasus and the Horn of Africa. She has carried out research on a range of issues, from shelter practices for victims of trafficking in ASEAN to regional cooperation mechanisms in East Africa.
In addition to writing key publications for the United Nations and other international organizations, Marika has written book chapters, journal articles and opinion pieces on human trafficking, migrant smuggling, human rights, and their intersections. Marika serves on technical advisory panels, review boards and ethics committees, and is a member of the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime network of experts. She has a PhD in international human rights law. Her book, titled Freedom from Religion and Human Rights Law, was published by Routledge.


Rory Macmillan

Rory is a partner with the law firm Macmillan Keck Attorneys & Solicitors, and a lawyer admitted to the New York Bar with 25 years’ experience in ICT law. He is a member of the American Bar Association (ABA) Task Force on Big Data and Competition, and of the expert panel on digital platforms and competition of the Industrial Development Think Tank appointed by the Department of Trade & Industry (DTI) of the Government of South Africa. He regularly advises internet companies, digital financial services and telecommunications providers, governments, regulatory authorities and the World Bank on digital ID, data protection, digital financial services, telecommunications and competition law and policy. He holds his LLB with First Class Honours from the University of Edinburgh and LLM from Yale Law School where he was a Fulbright and Rotary Scholar.


Daniel Mejía

Daniel Mejia is Associate Professor at the Department of Economics at Universidad de los Andes. Prior to coming back to Universidad de los Andes, he was the Director of Policy and Strategy of the General Attorney´s Office in Colombia between July 2018 and June 2019, and Secretary of Security of Bogota, Colombia, between 2016 and May 2018, where he was in charge of leading security and justice policies in the city of Bogota. Before becoming the first Secretary of Security of Bogota in January 2016, Daniel was Associate Professor in the Department of Economics and Director of the Research Center on Drugs and Security (CESED) at Universidad de los Andes in Bogota, Colombia, where he taught since 2006. He received a BA and MA in Economics from Universidad de los Andes and a MA and PhD in economics from Brown University. Between 2011 and 2012, Daniel was a member of the Advisory Commission on Criminal Policy and more recently he was the President of the Colombian Government´s Drug Policy Advisory Commission. In March 2015 Daniel was awarded the Juan Luis Londoño prize, awarded every other year to the best Colombian economist under 40.


Rusudan Mikhelidze

Rusudan works at the Anti-Corruption Network for Eastern Europe and Central Asia (ACN) of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), where she manages regional and country projects and leads the development of anti-corruption performance indicators and a new methodology of anti-corruption reviews under the Istanbul Anti-Corruption Action Plan.
Her prior experience includes various leading roles on anti-corruption and criminal justice reform projects in Georgia at the Ministry of Justice and the Prosecutor’s Office. Ex officio she has served as the Secretary of the Anti-Corruption Council, the Chair of the Open Government Georgia’s Forum, Secretary of Criminal Justice Reform Council and the Chair of the Juvenile Justice working group. She has also worked with the Crime and Justice Institute in Boston, MA. As a head of statistics division in the Prosecutor General’s Office of Georgia, she led criminal justice statistic reform in Georgia that resulted in the adoption of Unified Criminal Justice Statistics Methodology in Georgia and worked on the development of the methodology of a large-scale victimization and perception survey in cooperation with the authors of the ICVS and Eurobarometer.
Rusudan holds a law degree from Tbilisi University and University of Helsinki. She has completed executive education programmes at Harvard Kennedy School and Massachusetts Institute of Technologies and has been teaching the law of international organizations and international law of treaties at the Caucasus University in Georgia.


Julia A. Mold

As a FSVC volunteer, Julia Mold has worked on AML/CFT, sanctions and corruption issues in the MENA region, the Americas, African continent, South Asia and the Russian Federation for US and overseas financial institutions.
Currently, her efforts focus on identification and research on emerging money laundering and related financial crime risks in the financial sector and providing AML/CFT guidance to projects. In 2020, she led several AML/CFT training programs in Angola.
With FSVC, she has volunteered in more than 20 AML advisory projects in transitioning economies. She co-authored a report on “Financial Inclusion and Anti Money Laundering in Kenya” (Gates Foundation and FSVC 2012) and is a frequent speaker on AML and related themes. FSVC is a not-for-profit, public-private partnership (PPP) helping build the sound financial systems needed to support robust market economies in developing countries.  Since 1990, FSVC conducted over 3,200 missions in 65 countries, using 10,000 experts from the international financial, legal and regulatory communities.  FSVC has implemented over 450 AML/CFT activities in 26 countries, delivering technical assistance to the public and private sectors (FIs, DNFBPs, NPOs) and increasing public-private collaboration on AML/CFT issues.
Julia began her financial industry career as a regulator with the New York Stock Exchange’s Division of Member Firm Regulation and is an economics graduate of New York University.


Alina Mungiu-Pippidi

Alina is Professor of Democracy Studies at the Hertie School in Berlin and Director of the European Research Centre for Anti-Corruption and State-Building - ERCAS. She is the author of A Quest for Good Governance. How Societies Build Control of Corruption (2015) and of Europe’s Burden. Promoting Good Governance across Borders (2019), both with Cambridge University Press. Mungiu-Pippidi has consulted for the World Bank, UNDP, the International Monetary Fund, the European Parliament, the Swedish Government, and others. Her research projects have resulted in commons like integrity-index.org, europam.eu, and opentender.eu. She is also the President of the Romanian Academic Society - SAR and founder of the social media watchdog platform Clean Romania! (romaniacurata.ro).


Raymund E. Narag

Raymund is an Associate Professor and the Judge William Cook Professor Fellow in the Criminology and Criminal Justice, School of Justice and Public Safety in Southern Illinois University.
He studies correctional and judicial policies and practices in the South East Asia, with special focus on the Philippines, and how these translate to prolonged pre-trial detention, jail overcrowding and violent extremism. He also currently serves as Consultant with the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) on correctional issues in the Philippines. His recent publication includes Inmate Radicalization and Recruitment in Prisons (with Clarke Jones) published by Routledge in 2019 and Behind Bars in New Bilibid Prisons published by the University of the Philippines Press in 2020. Dr. Narag regularly visits the Philippines to conduct training and mentoring among correctional and court actors. Prior to be becoming a scholar, Dr. Narag was a detainee for seven years in the Quezon City Jail where he was eventually declared innocent. This profound experience provided him with a first-hand view of the realities of wrongful detention, jail crowding, and delayed trials that plague many countries in South East Asia. Dr. Narag obtained his PhD in Criminal Justice from Michigan State University.


Peter Neyroud

Peter is Director of the Senior Leader master’s degree Apprenticeship in Applied Criminology and Police Management and a Lecturer in Evidence-based policing in the Jerry Lee Centre for Experimental Criminology at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge. In 2018 he completed a PhD at Cambridge which focused on the implementation of field experiments in policing. His research focuses on experimentation, police diversion of offenders, crime harm, police ethics, community policing, the impact of COVID 19 on policing and police leadership and management. Peter was educated at Winchester College and Oriel College, Oxford, where he read Modern History. He was a police officer for more than 30 years, serving in Hampshire, West Mercia and Thames Valley (as Chief Constable). He set up and ran the National Policing Improvement Agency (as Chief Constable and Chief Executive). In the latter role he was responsible for national implementation of all the major programmes in UK policing, including Neighbourhood Policing, Workforce reform and new technology.
In 2010, he was commissioned by the UK Home Secretary to carry out a fundamental “Review of Police Leadership and Training” which led to the establishment of the new National “College of Policing” in 2012 and radical reform of the qualifications and training of police officers, creating the new “Police Education Qualification Framework”.
He is the Co-Chair of the Campbell Collaboration Crime and Justice Coordinating Group and leading an international programme of systematic reviews on the prevention of terrorism and radicalization.
From 2018-2020 he was the Director of the Cambridge programme for the Mid-Career Training Programme for senior Indian Police Service officers at the National Police Academy, Hyderabad. He presented “Evidence-based Policing” to PM Narendra Modi at the December 2019 DG’s conference in Pune.


Javier Osorio

Javier is an Assistant Professor at the School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona. His research focuses on analyzing the micro-dynamics of criminal and political violence in Latin America primarily using social science computing methods and experimental approaches for impact evaluation. Dr. Osorio has led research projects in Mexico, Central America, and Colombia with support from the US of Agency for International Development, the US Department of Defense, the US National Science Foundation, Open Society Foundations, among other donors.


Aurélie Ouss

Aurélie is Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research examines how good design of criminal justice institutions and policies can make law enforcement fairer and more efficient. She has published studies in several journals, including Science, the Journal of Political Economy, the Economic Journal, and the Journal of Legal Studies. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University, a Masters in Economics from the Paris School of Economics and a B.A. in Econometrics and Sociology from Ecole Normale Superieure. She came to Penn after a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Chicago Crime Lab.


Hyun Jung Park

Hyun Jung is the National Programme Officer and the Coordinator of the Centre of Excellence (CoE) for Statistics on Crime and Criminal Justice in Asia and the Pacific. Ms. Park’s management of the regional centre focuses on supporting states in the development of better mechanisms for measuring crime and criminal justice statistics. Prior to her appointment to UNODC, Ms. Park was Deputy Director at KOSTAT, where she oversaw methodological research and conducted economic, labour and social surveys. Recently, she has participated in developing the Republic of Korea crime classification framework and has led the implementation of the UNODC International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes. Ms. Park has a Bachelor’s degree in Statistics from Pusan National University (Republic of Korea), a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Chungnam National University (Republic of Korea), and a PhD. in Statistics from Chungnam National University (Republic of Korea).


Lucio Picci

Lucio graduated in Political Science from the University of Bologna, where he is now Professor of Economics, and holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California at San Diego. His research interests are at the intersection between political economy, public governance and the economics of innovation, and he has published widely on these topics. For several years he has been studying the problem of corruption, and he is writing a book titled "Rethinking corruption". In the past he has worked, or consulted, for international organizations such as the World Bank, the European Commission, the United Nations, and for several branches of the Italian government. Currently he is collaborating, as a senior expert, with the Italian Anti-Corruption Authority.


Alex R. Piquero

Alex is Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology and Arts & Sciences Distinguished Scholar the University of Miami and Professor of Criminology at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. He was Co-Editor of the Journal of Quantitative Criminology from 2008 to 2013 and currently serves as Editor of Justice Evaluation Journal. Prior to joining the University of Miami in August 2020, he was Ashbel Smith Professor of Criminology at The University of Texas at Dallas, where he also served as Associate Dean for Graduate Programs in the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences and Director of Social Impact in the Office of Research. He has also served on the faculties of Florida State University, University of Maryland, John Jay College of Criminal Justice/City University of New York, University of Florida, Northeastern University, and Temple University. He has published over 475 peer-reviewed articles in the areas of criminal careers, race/immigration and crime, crime prevention, criminological theory, and quantitative research methods, and has authored several books including Key Issues in Criminal Careers Research: New Analyses from the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development (Cambridge University Press, with David P. Farrington and Alfred Blumstein), Handbook of Quantitative Criminology (Springer, with David Weisburd), and Developmental Criminology and the Crime-drop: A Comparative Analysis of Criminal Careers in Two Birth Cohorts (Cambridge University Press, with Jason Payne). His work has been cited over 47,000 times (h-index=115). A 2019 article in Plos Biology identified him as being included among the top 100,000 most-cited scientists in the world. In November 2019 and November 2020, he was recognized by the Web of Science Group as one of the world’s most influential researchers (i.e., a Highly Cited Researcher). He has served as Executive Counselor with the American Society of Criminology, Member of the National Academy of Sciences Panel Evaluating the National Institute of Justice, Member of the National Academy of Sciences Panel on A Prioritized Plan to Implement a Developmental Approach in Juvenile Justice Reform, Member of the National Academy of Sciences Panel on Modernizing the Nation’s Crime Statistics, Member of the Racial Democracy, Crime and Justice Network at Ohio State University, and Member of the MacArthur Foundation's Research Network on Adolescent Development & Juvenile Justice. He has given congressional testimony on evidence-based crime prevention practices in the area of early-family/parent training programs, and has provided counsel and support to several local, state, national, and international criminal justice agencies, including various police and correctional agencies. In 2015, US Attorney General Eric Holder appointed him to the Office of Justice Programs Science Advisory Board. In September 2019, Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson appointed him to the Mayor’s Task Force on Safe Communities and Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot appointed him as a member of the DA’s Urban Crime Initiative. In December 2020, Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine F. Rundle appointed him to the Executive Committee of the Continuing Justice Reform Commission. In March 2021, he was elected to the Council on Criminal Justice. Professor Piquero is past recipient of the American Society of Criminology's Young Scholar (2002) and E-Mail Mentor of the Year (2005) Awards, Fellow of both the American Society of Criminology (2011) and the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (2011), recipient of the Western Society of Criminology President’s Award (2017), recipient of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Bruce Smith, Sr. Award (2019), recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Division of Developmental & Life-Course Criminology of the American Society of Criminology (2020) and has also received numerous teaching awards including the University of Florida's College of Arts & Sciences Teacher of the Year Award (2004), the University of Maryland's Top Terp Teaching Award (2008), the University of Texas Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award (2014), as well as the University of Texas at Dallas Diversity Award. In 2018, he was named to The University of Texas System’s Academy of Distinguished Teachers. His research has been featured in The New York Times, Reuters, CNN, The Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Miami Herald, The Huffington Post, The Atlantic, and the Dallas Morning News.


Carol Viviana Porto

Carol is a PhD student in Political and Social Sciences at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and holds a Master's degree in Strategic Security and Defense Studies from the Federal Fluminense University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She previously worked as a researcher in the area of drug policy and citizen security at the Igarapé Institute, Brazil.


Mounu Prem

Mounu works as an Adjunct Professor at the Economics Department in Universidad del Rosario. He holds a PhD in Economics from Stanford University and a M.A. and B.A. in Economics from PUC Chile. His research interests are in Political Economy, Development Economics, and Economic History.


Zef Preci

Zef is a macro-economist with 25 years of experience in research, policy formulation and project implementation activities. He holds a degree in Economics from the Institute of Economic Studies/Academy of Sciences of Albania obtained on 1991. Dr. Preci held high profile public positions such as, Minister of Public Economy and Privatization (1999), Senior Adviser to the President of the Republic of Albania (2002-2004), first Chairman, and Member of the Competition Authority (2004-2005), Advisor to Supreme Auditing Authority Chairman (parti-time), etc. In his high ranked public duties, he has been fully committed and devoted in the promotion of the free market ideas and the EU integration processes of the Albanian economy and society.
Under ACER engagement, he is extensively involved on public debates regarding the macro-economic policies; in particular, public institutions’ management, public finances, good governance, anti-corruption policies, pro-competition policies, agricultural and rural development, etc. Mr. Preci has a strong experience in project cycle management, especially programming and evaluation, policy advisory and dialogue. He is author of a considerable number of articles and mas-media interviews regarding governmental economic policies and various studies.
Currently he holds the position of Executive Director of the Albanian Center for Economic Research (ACER), country’s first established NGO dedicated to free market and open society after systemic changes of 1991.


Michele Riccardi

Michele is Senior Researcher at Transcrime and Adjunct Professor of Financial and Business information analysis at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and of Risk Assessment Methods at the University of Palermo. He has coordinated or contributed to numerous research projects, at national and international level, in the field of organized crime, money laundering, financial crime. He is member of the ARO – Asset Recovery Office of the European Commission, of the Experts group of the EU Supranational money laundering risk assessment (SNRA) and of the National ML risk assessment (NRA). He is member of the UN working group in the measurement of illicit financial flows (SDG 16.4). He has been consulted in the FATF/GAFI Mutual evaluation of the Italian AML/CFT regime. He holds a MSc in Accounting and Financial Economics (with distinction) at the University of Essex (UK) and a MA in International Relations (cum laude) at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Italy).


Alejandra Ríos Cázares

Alejandra holds a PhD in political science from the University of California San Diego. From August 2019, she is on academic leave from the Division of Public Administration at the Center for Economics Teaching and Research (CIDE) and currently works as deputy general director of development, analysis and government indicators at the National Institute of Geography and Statistics of Mexico (INEGI). Her research interests are comparative analysis of institutions, political development, government accountability, gender institutions and subnational politics. She has worked on academic projects related to justice reform in Mexico, government accountability, government transparency, subnational politics, institutions for the advancement of women, and gender violence. She is part of the National System of Researchers (SNI), level I.


Alison Ritter

Alison is an internationally recognized drug policy scholar and the Director of the Drug Policy Modelling Program (DPMP) at the University of New South Wales. She is an NHMRC Senior Research Fellow leading a multi-disciplinary program of research on drug policy. The goal of the work is to advance drug policy through improving the evidence-base, translating research and studying policy processes. Her research work has focused on many aspects of drug policy, including research on drug laws (eg: decriminalization models, threshold quantities), drug treatment (eg: funding systems, unmet demand for treatment, treatment planning), models and methods of democratic participation in drug policy; and research focused on policy process (eg: policy stasis and policy change). Her work is supported by grants from competitive research funding bodies (NHMRC, ARC) as well as commissioned research from governments across Australia.


Mutaawe Rogers

Mutaawe is a social worker, working as a Senior Program Manager with Uganda Youth Development Link. He is a U.S Fulbright Humphrey Fellow, 2015-16. Mutaawe has implemented direct community interventions aimed at prevention and rescue of victims of human trafficking in communities through engagement with leaders and stakeholders both at national and local levels. He has provided counselling, care and rehabilitation services to survivors, and conducted awareness sessions with stakeholders in the justice law and order sector more especially the law enforcement personnel to identify, detect, respond and investigate cases of human trafficking. Mr. Mutaawe has also participated in lobby and advocacy efforts through engagement with policy makers, Members of Parliament, the media and partner organizations. These efforts led to the enactment of the Prevention of the Trafficking in Persons’ Act, 2009; and the Amendment of the Children’s Act, 2016 which incorporated Section 8A which prohibits sexual exploitation. Mr. Mutaawe was been involved in planning and execution of ground-breaking research projects most notably the “Prevalence of forced begging/selling and sex trafficking in Kampala” from 2019-2021 in collaboration with John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. Mutaawe has a passion for lobbying, advocacy, interventions, research and evaluation of human trafficking prevention programs.


Julio A. Santaella

Julio is the President of the Board of Governors at INEGI and holds a degree in Economics from the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico (ITAM), as well as a master's degree and a PhD in Economics from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) in the United States. From 2001-2014 he worked at Mexico's Central Bank (Banco de México) as Executive Coordinator of the Mexican Petroleum Fund for Stabilization and Development, as Manager of Information and Analysis and Director of Central Banking Operations Support, and also as a researcher in the General Office of Economic Research and in the Board of Governors. In the academic field, he has been a researcher and professor at ITAM (1985-86, 1997-2003), Head Coordinator of the Center for Applied Economics, Head of the Academic Department of Economics as well as Deputy Director of the Center for Economic Analysis and Research. During the period 1992-1997, he was an economist at the Research Department and the International Monetary Fund’s European Department I. From 1984 to 1987 he was Head of the Macroeconomic Policy Department of the General Office of Fiscal Planning at the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit.


Romi Sigsworth

Romi is a research consultant with the ENACT programme at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), an African non-profit organisation with offices in South Africa, Kenya, Ethiopia and Senegal. ENACT builds knowledge and skills to enhance Africa’s response to transnational organised crime. Prior to this, she was the Gender Specialist at the ISS and a Senior Researcher in the Gender-based Violence Programme at the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation in Johannesburg. She has also been the editor of the academic journals African Security Review, Bioethics and Developing World Bioethics. She has an MSt in Women’s Studies from the University of Oxford.


Johanna Skinnari

Johanna is a criminologist and works as a deputy head of unit at the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention. The unit is specialized on research regarding economic and organized crime. Johanna has conducted empirical research on those topics since 2005. The methods used are mainly interviews (experts, victims and offenders), analysis of case files and surveys. The projects include topics as diverse as extortion directed at business owners, codes of silence, unlawful influence against Swedish public officials, organized drug crime and fraud. In her presentation she will focus on a study conducted in several socially disadvantaged areas in Sweden regarding the residents’ trust in the police, feelings of safety and unsafety in the neighborhood and the nature of parallel societal structures.


Tim Surmont

Tim is a Belgian national working as scientific analyst on drug markets and drug-related crime at the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) since 2016.
He holds a Master’s degree in Criminological Sciences and worked at Ghent University as a research assistant on drug phenomena. He has published papers on cannabis production and supply, the Dutch coffee shop model, cross-border drug tourism and mixed method criminological research. Tim has special interests in transnational drug distribution networks, Dutch drug policy, cannabis production, synthetic drug production, drug precursor trafficking, synthetic cannabinoid distribution and processing, organised crime groups, the Western Balkans, and outlaw motorcycle gangs.


Santiago Tobón

Santiago is a Professor of Economics and the Director of the Center for Research in Economics and Finance—CIEF at Universidad EAFIT in Medellín, Colombia. He is also a researcher of Innovations for Poverty Action—IPA, an academic member of Evidence in Governance and Politics—EGAP, and an affiliate of Households in Conflict Network—HiCN. Prior to joining Universidad EAFIT, Santiago was a Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Chicago Pearson Institute & Innovations for Poverty Action Peace and Recovery Program. He received a Ph.D. in Economics from Universidad de los Andes in 2018, an M.A. in Economics from Universidad de los Andes in 2017, and an M.A. in Economics from Université Catholique de Louvain in 2012. Santiago study crime, violence, organized crime and the criminal justice system. His research has been published in leading journals such as the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of the European Economic Association, and World Development.


Fatma Usheva

Fatma is a survey specialist at the Data Development and Dissemination Section at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in Vienna. Her main responsibilities are data collection and data analysis of crime statistics. Ms. Usheva holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Milan (Italy) and a Master in Economics and Business Administration from Aarhus University (Denmark).


Federico Varese

Federico is Professor of Criminology at the University of Oxford and a Senior Research Fellow at Nuffield College. His main area of research is the study of organised crime. He is the author of The Russian Mafia (2001), Mafias on the Move (2011) and Mafia Life (2018). His books have been translated into several languages.
He has published papers in journals such as Social Networks, The British Journal of Criminology, Law and Society Review, Crime and Justice, Archives Européenes de Sociologie, Political Studies, Cahiers du Monde Russe, Rationality & Society, European Sociological Review, and Trends in Organized Crime, among others. He contributes to The Times Literary Supplement and, in Italy, the daily La Repubblica. His work has been featured in The Economist, Newsweek, The BBC News & World Service, ABC, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Monkeycage Blog and Freakonomics blog, among others. Mafias on the Move was the Recipient of The International Association for the Study of Organized Crime 2012 Outstanding Publication Award. The Russian Mafia was The Co-Recipient of ED A. Hewett Book Prize awarded by The American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.


Malarvizhi Veerappan

Malar is a Senior Data Scientist and Program Manager for the Data Management & Services at the World Bank. She leads the team that manages the statistical data management and dissemination functions that supports the production of key data products such as the World Development Indicators, data.worldbank.org, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and the Bank’s data catalog. She oversees data management and technology implementations for many development data initiatives, provides technical assistance to countries and other organizations and supports the institution's Open data strategy and its execution. She was part of the task team that launched The World Bank's Open Data Initiative in 2010 and as part this efforts, she created the World Bank’s first comprehensive data APIs.
As a member of the secretariat was instrumental in setting up the Bank’s Data Council, an internal data governance body that works on framing the institution's key data priorities, including emerging areas such as big data and Geospatial data. In this capacity, she established the Development Data Hub, the Bank’s first integrated data hub, that streamlines data sharing and helps eliminate data silos by provisioning consistent tools, policies and the formation of centralized curation teams. She is co-leading efforts to make the evidence on gender data gaps more accessible, usable and salient through compelling narratives and data visualizations.
She is an engineer by education and is pursuing an advanced degree in Applied Data Sciences. She is passionate about building innovative data solutions that have global reach and impact and the effective use of ICT for development.


Kyle Vincent

Kyle is an independent researcher and statistical consultant. He has been involved in an array of studies that aim to characterize hidden populations, such as those comprised of forced labourers, trafficking victims, commercial sex workers, and drug-users. These experiences have motivated his research on developing innovative strategies that can be used to efficiently study such populations. Such strategies typically rely on a peer-recruitment/network sampling design to access and observe individuals that can not be reached with conventional approaches. He has also conducted and applied his research findings within the context of multiple systems estimation for estimating the size of trafficked populations.


Leila Wood

Leila, PhD, MSSW (she/her) is associate professor and the Director of Evaluation at the Center for Violence Prevention Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, at The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB). Dr. Wood’s program of research focuses on community-based intimate partner violence and sexual assault intervention and prevention efforts, including college campuses. Dr. Wood focuses her scholarship on intimate partner violence and sexual assault service evaluation and research, and currently leadss research projects focused on enhancing service responses to violence survivors including evaluations of housing interventions; technology-facilitated hotline services; and advocacy services for violence survivors on college campuses. Dr Wood’s service evaluation work involves research on advocacy, or supportive service models, for survivors of violence. Dr. Wood is rooted strongly in a community participatory and practitioner-led research approach. Over the last several years, she has conducted research and evaluation studies in close collaboration with community agencies, campus, city, state and federal partners on the extent and impact of sexual assault, dating violence, stalking and sexual harassment, with a focus on vulnerable and underserved populations. Dr. Wood has extensive social work practice experience working survivors of intimate and interpersonal violence.


Irmgard Zeiler

Irmgard is a researcher with the Research and Trend Analysis Branch of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). At UNODC, she works on measuring organised crime activities and analysing illegal markets, with a focus on drug trafficking and drug production. Her works spans a wide range from monitoring illicit crop cultivation to developing concepts and methods for measuring illegal economic activities and illicit financial flows derived from various illegal activities.
Irmgard Zeiler holds a master’s degree in applied mathematics and a PhD in operations research from the Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria. Following her PhD studies, she had a post-doctoral assignments at the Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar and at the Drug Policy Modelling Programme, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.