Illicit trade & Counterfeits

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Meet our Speakers

We've gathered some of the top experts in the field to discuss this topic. With years of experience between them, they're well-equipped to offer invaluable insights and perspectives.

Tuesday Reitano

Tuesday Reitano

Deputy Director, GI-TOC

Mark Shaw

Mark Shaw

Livia Wagner

Livia Wagner

Virginia Comolli

Virginia Comolli

Head of Pacific Programme, GI-TOC

Guillermo Vazquez del Mercado Almada

Guillermo Vazquez del Mercado Almada

Willie Wilson

Willie Wilson

Yuyun Ismawati

Yuyun Ismawati

Antônio Sampaio

Antônio Sampaio

GITOC, Senior Analyst

Lindy Mtongana

Lindy Mtongana

Louise Taylor

Louise Taylor

Director - Observatory of Illicit Economies in Asia-Pacific, GI-TOC

Jay Bahadur

Jay Bahadur

Wolf-Christian Paes

Wolf-Christian Paes

Maysaa Shuja Al-Deen

Maysaa Shuja Al-Deen

Alexandre Bish

Alexandre Bish

Alice Fereday

Alice Fereday

Senior analyst, The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

Jalel Harchaoui

Jalel Harchaoui

Senior Fellow, GI-TOC

Kristina Amerhauser

Kristina Amerhauser

Heike Thiele

Heike Thiele

Lucia Bird

Lucia Bird

Director of the West Africa Observatory, GI-TOC

Ruggero Scaturro

Ruggero Scaturro

Vanja Petrovic

Vanja Petrovic

GI - TOC

Lyes Tagziria

Lyes Tagziria

Mouhamadou Kane

Mouhamadou Kane

Analyst, GI-TOC

Dr Kingsley Madueke

Dr Kingsley Madueke

Nigeria Research Coordinator, Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

Dr Eleanor Beevor

Dr Eleanor Beevor

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Talks

Plastic for profit: Tracing illicit plastic waste flows, supply chains and actors

23 November 2021, 09:00 AM

Virginia Comolli

Willie Wilson

Yuyun Ismawati

Louise Taylor

Soldiers of Fortune: The future of Chadian fighters after the Libyan ceasefire

08 December 2021, 10:00 AM

Alexandre Bish

Alice Fereday

Jalel Harchaoui

An Iranian Fingerprint?: The illicit arms trade and spillover of the Yemen conflict into the Horn of Africa

09 December 2021, 01:00 PM

Lindy Mtongana

Jay Bahadur

Wolf-Christian Paes

Maysaa Shuja Al-Deen

Organized crime and instability: Mapping illicit hubs in West Africa

07 September 2022, 11:00 AM

Heike Thiele

Lucia Bird

Lyes Tagziria

Mouhamadou Kane

Kingsley Madueke

Online Markets for Pangolin-Derived Products

21 September 2022, 10:00 AM

Kristina Amerhauser

Théo Clément

Dan Challender

Ceres Kam

JNIM in Burkina Faso: A strategic criminal actor

22 September 2022, 02:30 PM

Lucia Bird

Eleanor Beevor

Désiré NIKIEMA

Zakaria Soré

Diálogos para la resiliencia en Latinoamérica y el Caribe 2022

25 October 2022, 03:00 PM

Livia Wagner

Guillermo Vazquez del Mercado Almada

Griselda Triana

Lucia Dammert

Celia Medrano

Nicolás Zevallos Trigoso

Gold, conflict and criminality in West Africa

28 November 2022, 11:00 AM

Mouhamadou Kane

Désiré NIKIEMA

Marcena Hunter

Kady Seguin

Michel Yoboue

Exploring the maritime Balkan routes

13 December 2022, 02:00 PM

Ruggero Scaturro

Vanja Petrovic

Sasa Djordjevic

Anna Sergi

The evolving dynamics of cattle rustling and instability in Nigeria

07 February 2023, 09:00 AM

Kingsley Madueke

Lawan Danjuma Adamu

Manji Mangrock

Flore Berger

Nengak Daniel Gondyi

Locked Horns – Cattle rustling and Mali’s war economy

16 May 2023, 02:00 PM

Mouhamadou Kane

Kingsley Madueke

Flore Berger

Kalidou Sidibé

Modibo Galy Cissé

Armed groups and conflict economies in the national parks in West Africa

11 July 2023, 01:00 PM

Antônio Sampaio

Eleanor Beevor

Abdel Aziz Mossi

Port in a storm: Organized crime in Odesa since the Russian invasion

05 September 2023, 07:00 PM

Tuesday Reitano

Fedir Sydoruk

Valerii Bolgan

The Launch of the Global Organized Crime Index 2023

26 September 2023, 02:00 PM

Mark Shaw

Rumbi Matamba

Global Initiative

Laura Adal

North-Eastern Côte d’Ivoire: between illicit economies and violent extremism

04 October 2023, 02:00 PM

Mouhamadou Kane

Flore Berger

Oumarou Paul Koalaga

Parfait N'Goran

William Assanvo

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

05 October 2023, 02:00 PM

Lucia Bird

Mouhamadou Kane

Gabriel de Santis Feltran

Isabela Vianna Pinho

Daniel A. Amankwaah

Armed groups, vehicle trafficking, and (de)stabilizing local economies

10 October 2023, 02:00 PM

Mouhamadou Kane

Eleanor Beevor

Hamidou Diallo

Edward Yogo

Illegal Waste Trade: What are we wasting our time on?

20 October 2023, 08:00 AM

Virginia Comolli

Shirleen Chin

Huib van Westen

Yeo Bee Yin

Ioana Cotutiu

Time of Troubles: The Russian underworld since the Ukraine invasion

18 December 2023, 03:00 PM

Tuesday Reitano

Mark Galeotti

Yuliya Zabyelina

Federico Varese

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

05 June 2024, 07:30 AM

Mark Shaw

Virginia Comolli

Laura Adal

Tamasailau (Sailau) Suaalii-Sauni

Peter Aitsi

Gangsters at War: Russia's Use of Organized Crime as an Instrument of Statecraft

04 November 2024, 01:30 PM

Tuesday Reitano

Mark Galeotti

Cattle rustling and insecurity: in the tri-border area between Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana

29 July 2025, 02:00 PM

Flore Berger

Fofana Moussa

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