Lucia Bird

Director of the West Africa Observatory, GI-TOC Director of the West Africa Observatory, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

About this speaker

Lucia is the Director of the Observatory of Illicit Economies in West Africa at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime. Lucia has published extensively on a range of organized crime types, including human smuggling, human trafficking, drugs trafficking and cyber-crime, with a focus on dynamics in Africa. Prior to joining the organisation, Lucia worked as legal and policy adviser to the Planning and Development Department of the Punjab Government, Pakistan, and before that held the same role at the Ministry of Finance, Ghana. During this time Lucia was affiliated with Oxford Policy Management, a development consultancy headquartered in the UK. Prior to this Lucia worked as a corporate lawyer in London.


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Talks

Illicit economies, armed conflict and instability

22 March 2022, 02:00 PM
Gifty Mensah Jean-Luc Lemahieu Adam Day Lucia Bird Borges Nhamirre Judith Vorrath Mark Shaw Mathias Steinebach Renata Segura Etannibi Alemika Amado Philip de Andres Summer Walker Tjark Egenhoff Heike Thiele Alastair Nelson

Cambodia’s trafficked brides: The escalating phenomenon of forced marriage

11 May 2022, 10:00 AM
Vireak Chhun Chan Saron Thi Hoang Lucia Bird Sean Sok Phay Le Thi Hong Luong

Organized crime and instability: Mapping illicit hubs in West Africa

07 September 2022, 11:00 AM
Kingsley Madueke Lucia Bird Heike Thiele Lyes Tagziria Mouhamadou Kane

JNIM in Burkina Faso: A strategic criminal actor

22 September 2022, 02:30 PM
Lucia Bird Zakaria Soré Eleanor Beevor Désiré NIKIEMA

11th UNTOC COP Side Event: Mapping illicit hubs in West Africa

18 October 2022, 08:00 AM
Lyes Tagziria Mouhamadou Kane Kingsley Madueke Lucia Bird

Atlantic connections: The PCC and the Brazil-West Africa cocaine trade

05 October 2023, 02:00 PM
Mouhamadou Kane Lucia Bird Daniel A. Amankwaah Gabriel de Santis Feltran Isabela Vianna Pinho

“Via Mali, Morocco and the Canaries - shifts in routes and methods in human smuggling in West and North-West Africa”

12 December 2023, 02:00 PM
Flore Berger Lucia Bird Harry Johnstone

Mapping synthetic drug markets in Africa: Enabling evidence-based responses

29 April 2024, 02:00 PM
Hanna Rozhkova Jason Eligh Lucia Bird Ibrahim Kargbo Phoenix Mohawk Kellye Patricia Neves Gowmatee Madhubala Madhub-Dassyne Rumbi Matamba Maria Khoruk Mouhamadou Kane

Sanctions on organized crime: Analyzing evolution and processes

14 May 2024, 02:00 PM
Rumbi Matamba Lucia Bird Matt Herbert

Sanctions on organized crime: A strategic framework for impact assessment

20 June 2024, 02:00 PM
Lucia Bird Matt Herbert Ana Paula Oliveira

Guinea Bissau: Assessing the impact of sanctions on illicit markets

04 July 2024, 02:00 PM
Hermenegildo Pereira Lucia Bird Ana Paula Oliveira