Mark Shaw

Director, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

About this speaker

Mark Shaw is the Director of the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime.

He was previously the National Research Foundation Professor of Justice and Security at the University of Cape Town, Department of Criminology.

Mark worked for ten years at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), including as Inter-regional Advisor, Chief of the Criminal Justice Reform Unit and with the Global Programme against Transnational Organised Crime, with extensive field work.

Before joining the UN, Mark held a number of positions in the South African government and civil society where he worked on issues of public safety and urban violence in the post-apartheid transition.

He holds a PhD from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and has published widely on organised crime, security and justice reform issues.

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Talks

Launch of the Global Assassination Monitor #AssassinationWitness

17 November 2021, 02:00 PM
Andrew Caruana Galizia Fiona Marshall Nina Kaysser Mark Shaw Ana Paula Oliveira Michelle Foley

Illicit economies, armed conflict and instability

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

31st CCPCJ Side Event: Communities on the frontline against organized crime

18 May 2022, 12:10 PM
Mark Shaw Luis Javier Campuzano Pina Kjersti E. Andersen Maria Isabel Cruz Bernal Siria Gastelum Felix Hermanto Hasan Ian Tennant Bubacar Ture Robert Riziki

Giovanni Falcone and Italian society's fight against Cosa Nostra

30 June 2022, 09:00 AM
Ruggero Scaturro Jean-Luc Lemahieu Maria Vittoria De Simone Alessandro Cortese Riikka Puttonen Anna Alvazzi del Frate Mark Shaw Francesco Testa

The Launch of the Global Organized Crime Index 2023

26 September 2023, 02:00 PM
Laura Adal Mark Shaw Rumbi Matamba Global Initiative

Launch of the ECO-SOLVE Programme

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

Rising organized criminality in the Pacific islands – What drives it?

05 June 2024, 07:30 AM
Mark Shaw Laura Adal Virginia Comolli Peter Aitsi Tamasailau (Sailau) Suaalii-Sauni

New Frontiers in the Fight Against Environmental and Wildlife Crimes

03 October 2024, 12:00 PM
Mark Shaw Claudelice Dos Santos Louise Taylor Adams Cassinga Yan Naung Oak Julian Rademeyer Ofir Drori Thin Lei Win Lionel Hachemin Nina Kaysser Salvatore Amato Bruno Morais Jose Louies