Laura Avila Rivera

Grants Liaison, GI-TOC Grants Liaison, Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

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Laura Avila serves as a Grants Liaison at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, where she coordinates, engages, and manages community engagement and grants for GI-TOC, focusing mainly on global environmental crime initiatives. With over five years of experience in field research, Laura has extensively explored the impacts of organized crime on populations, with a specific emphasis on gender-based violence. She has also led gender awareness sessions.

Laura holds a master’s degree in Development Studies, specializing in Conflict, Human Rights, and Gender, from the Institute of Social Studies at Erasmus University Rotterdam. She is fluent in English and Spanish, and has a basic French proficiency.

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Talks

Launch of the ECO-SOLVE Programme

24 April 2024, 02:00 PM
Peter M Wagner Mark Shaw Astrid Schomaker Cathy Dreyer Jeremy Phan Simone Haysom Cecile Plunet Salvatore Amato Sofía Espíndola Oviedo Maria Rosa Sabbatelli Jorge Jesus Ramon Gonzáles Gallego Ilaria Di Silvestre John Githongo Laura Avila Rivera