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.

Celia Medrano

Celia Medrano

Laura Adal

Laura Adal

Director, Global Organized Crime Index, GI-TOC

Peter Aitsi MBE

Peter Aitsi MBE

Board Chair, Transparency International Papua New Guinea

Daniel A. Amankwaah

Daniel A. Amankwaah

Principal Programme Officer & Project Coordinator, Drug Prevention & Control, ECOWAS Commission

Lucia Bird

Lucia Bird

Director of the West Africa Observatory, GI-TOC

Shirleen Chin

Shirleen Chin

Managing Director, Green Transparency

Lucia Dammert

Lucia Dammert

Oumarou Paul Koalaga

Oumarou Paul Koalaga

Founder and Executive Director, Institut de Stratégie et de Relations Internationales (ISRI)

Lindy Mtongana

Lindy Mtongana

Vanja Petrovic

Vanja Petrovic

GI - TOC

Tuesday Reitano

Tuesday Reitano

Deputy Director, GI-TOC

Mark Shaw

Mark Shaw

Heike Thiele

Heike Thiele

Griselda Triana

Griselda Triana

Huib van Westen

Huib van Westen

Senior Inspector, Human Environment and Transport, Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management of the Netherlands

Prof. Federico Varese

Prof. Federico Varese

University of Oxford

Yeo Bee Yin

Yeo Bee Yin

Former Minister of Environment of Malaysia

William Assanvo

William Assanvo

Senior Researcher, Institute for Security Studies (ISS)

Virginia Comolli

Virginia Comolli

Head of Pacific Programme, GI-TOC

Ioana Cotutiu

Ioana Cotutiu

Project Coordinator, UNODC Unwaste

Lawan Danjuma Adamu

Lawan Danjuma Adamu

Northern Nigeria Field Coordinator, GI-TOC

Dr Kingsley Madueke

Dr Kingsley Madueke

Nigeria Research Coordinator, Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

Ruggero Scaturro

Ruggero Scaturro

Dr Yuliya Zabyelina

Dr Yuliya Zabyelina

The University of Alabama

Nicolás Zevallos Trigoso

Nicolás Zevallos Trigoso

Director, Instituto de Criminología y Estudios sobre la Violencia

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Talks

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

23 November 2021, 09:00 AM

Louise Taylor

Willie Wilson

Virginia Comolli

Yuyun Ismawati

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

08 December 2021, 10:00 AM

Jalel Harchaoui

Alice Fereday

Alexandre Bish

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

09 December 2021, 01:00 PM

Jay Bahadur

Maysaa Shuja Al-Deen

Wolf-Christian Paes

Lindy Mtongana

Organized crime and instability: Mapping illicit hubs in West Africa

07 September 2022, 11:00 AM

Lyes Tagziria

Lucia Bird

Mouhamadou Kane

Heike Thiele

Kingsley Madueke

Online Markets for Pangolin-Derived Products

21 September 2022, 10:00 AM

Ceres Kam

Kristina Amerhauser

Théo Clément

Dan Challender

JNIM in Burkina Faso: A strategic criminal actor

22 September 2022, 02:30 PM

Lucia Bird

Eleanor Beevor

Zakaria Soré

Désiré NIKIEMA

Diálogos para la resiliencia en Latinoamérica y el Caribe 2022

25 October 2022, 03:00 PM

Celia Medrano

Guillermo Vazquez del Mercado Almada

Griselda Triana

Livia Wagner

Nicolás Zevallos Trigoso

Lucia Dammert

Gold, conflict and criminality in West Africa

28 November 2022, 11:00 AM

Marcena Hunter

Mouhamadou Kane

Michel Yoboue

Kady Seguin

Désiré NIKIEMA

Exploring the maritime Balkan routes

13 December 2022, 02:00 PM

Sasa Djordjevic

Ruggero Scaturro

Vanja Petrovic

Anna Sergi

The evolving dynamics of cattle rustling and instability in Nigeria

07 February 2023, 09:00 AM

Kingsley Madueke

Flore Berger

Manji Mangrock

Nengak Daniel Gondyi

Lawan Danjuma Adamu

Locked Horns – Cattle rustling and Mali’s war economy

16 May 2023, 02:00 PM

Kalidou Sidibé

Kingsley Madueke

Mouhamadou Kane

Flore Berger

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

Valerii Bolgan

Fedir Sydoruk

Tuesday Reitano

The Launch of the Global Organized Crime Index 2023

26 September 2023, 02:00 PM

Rumbi Matamba

Global Initiative

Laura Adal

Mark Shaw

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

04 October 2023, 02:00 PM

Mouhamadou Kane

Oumarou Paul Koalaga

William Assanvo

Parfait N'Goran

Flore Berger

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

05 October 2023, 02:00 PM

Mouhamadou Kane

Gabriel de Santis Feltran

Daniel A. Amankwaah

Isabela Vianna Pinho

Lucia Bird

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

10 October 2023, 02:00 PM

Mouhamadou Kane

Hamidou Diallo

Eleanor Beevor

Edward Yogo

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

20 October 2023, 08:00 AM

Yeo Bee Yin

Ioana Cotutiu

Huib van Westen

Shirleen Chin

Virginia Comolli

Time of Troubles: The Russian underworld since the Ukraine invasion

18 December 2023, 03:00 PM

Tuesday Reitano

Yuliya Zabyelina

Mark Galeotti

Federico Varese

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

05 June 2024, 07:30 AM

Peter Aitsi

Mark Shaw

Laura Adal

Virginia Comolli

Tamasailau (Sailau) Suaalii-Sauni

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

04 November 2024, 01:30 PM

Mark Galeotti

Tuesday Reitano

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