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

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

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

Organized crime and instability: Mapping illicit hubs in West Africa

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

JNIM in Burkina Faso: A strategic criminal actor

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

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

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

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

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

“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 Harry Johnstone Lucia Bird

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

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

Sanctions on organized crime: Analyzing evolution and processes

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

Sanctions on organized crime: A strategic framework for impact assessment

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

Guinea Bissau: Assessing the impact of sanctions on illicit markets

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