Thi is the Managing Editor for the Journal of Illicit Economies and Development (JIED) and Analyst at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime. Thi is also coordinating and managing the International Association for the Study of Organized Crime (IASOC)‘s activities such as IASOC annual prizes, events, and monthly bulletins, and the International Society for the Study of Drug Policy (ISSDP)‘s membership.
Thi works on and co-coordinates the Responsible & Ethical Business Coalition against Trafficking (RESPECT) Initiative, which serves as a platform for thought leaders, practitioners, and policy makers and to mobilise the business community as a strategic partner to tackle human trafficking. Her other projects include the Modern Slavery Map, an interactive map for business of anti-human trafficking organisations, and the Tech Against Trafficking initiative, a coalition of technology companies and stakeholders aiming to help eradicate human trafficking using technology.
Thi also works on and co-ordinates the Drugs & Development Hub (DDH) initiative, jointly launched by the London School of Economics (LSE), the Global Partnership on Drug Policies and Development (GPDPD), and GI-TOC to create new perspectives for integrated drug policies.
She is currently a member of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR)‘s Standing Group on Organised Crime (SGOC) and supporting the Regional Academy on the United Nations (RAUN) as a Programme Coordinator and the Pacific Links Foundation as a Regional Advisor in her personal capacity.
Jay Albanese is professor in the Wilder School of Government & Public Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University. Dr. Albanese is author and editor of 20 books on organized crime, ethics, corruption, transnational crime, and criminal justice. He is recipient of the Gerhard Mueller Award for research contributions from the ACJS International Section, and the Distinguished Scholar Award from the International Association for the Study of Organized Crime. He is past president and fellow of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, and co-founder of Criminologists without Borders.
An illicit drug market and policy analyst whose work focuses on understanding the many contexts and characteristics influencing the development, growth and structural resilience of drug trade environments, particularly as these factors relate to the sustainability of harm.
Gabriel Feltran is an urban ethnographer. Professor of Urban Sociology in the Department of Sociology (Federal University of São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil) since 2008. PhD in Social Sciences (State University of Campinas, doctoral séjour at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, EHESS Paris, 2008). For more than two decades, Prof. Feltran has researched the favelas of São Paulo, Brazil. His research themes are related to urban conflict: crime, violence, criminal groups such as the PCC, illicit markets and its political regulations, urban politics and public security. Invited Scholar at CIESAS (Mexico, 2015), Sciences Po (France, 2013) and Humboldt University (Germany, 2017), he currently coordinates three collective Research Projects: i) The Regulation of (il)legal Car Markets in São Paulo, studying the journeys of stolen cars and their legal-illegal forms of regulation (by the state and by criminal groups); ii) The city's margins, focusing the dynamics of homicide rates in Brazil and Latin America; iii) Marginal music and sociology, arguing that a powerful Sociology could be extracted from Brazilian urban peripheries's music.
Maziyar Ghiabi is a Lecturer at the University of Oxford and Titular Fellow at Wadham College. Prior to this position, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Paris School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS) and a member of the Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire des Enjeux Sociaux (IRIS). Maziyar obtained his Doctorate in Politics at the University of Oxford (St Antony’s College) where he was a Wellcome Trust Scholar in Society and Ethics (2013–2017). He edited the Special Issue on ‘Drugs, Politics and Society in the Global South’ published by Third World Quarterly. His first monograph book is under contract by Cambridge University Press.
Khalid Tinasti is a Visiting Fellow at the Global Studies Institute at the University of Geneva, Honorary Research Associate at Swansea University, and the Executive Secretary of the Global Commission on Drug Policy.
