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.

Kristina Amerhauser

Kristina Amerhauser

Jay Bahadur

Jay Bahadur

Dr Eleanor Beevor

Dr Eleanor Beevor

Flore Berger

Flore Berger

Sahel Analyst, GI-TOC

Alexandre Bish

Alexandre Bish

Valerii Bolgan

Valerii Bolgan

Intent Press

Dan Challender

Dan Challender

Researcher, Oxford University

Théo Clément

Théo Clément

Senior Analyst, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

Gabriel de Santis Feltran

Gabriel de Santis Feltran

Research Professor, CNRS, Sciences Po

Hamidou Diallo

Hamidou Diallo

Director, Bureau of Studies on Extremism and Community Conflicts in Africa (BSECA)

Sasa Djordjevic

Sasa Djordjevic

Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

Alice Fereday

Alice Fereday

Senior analyst, The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

Prof Mark Galeotti

Prof Mark Galeotti

Director, Mayak Intelligence

Modibo Galy Cissé

Modibo Galy Cissé

PhD Candidate, Leiden University

Nengak Daniel Gondyi

Nengak Daniel Gondyi

Project Officer, Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue

Jalel Harchaoui

Jalel Harchaoui

Senior Fellow, GI-TOC

Marcena Hunter

Marcena Hunter

Thematic Lead on Extractives and Illicit Flows, GI-TOC

Global Initiative

Global Initiative

GI-TOC

Yuyun Ismawati

Yuyun Ismawati

Ceres Kam

Ceres Kam

Wildlife Campaigner, Environmental Investigation Agency

Mouhamadou Kane

Mouhamadou Kane

Analyst, GI-TOC

Manji Mangrock

Manji Mangrock

Plateau State Peacebuilding Agency

Rumbi Matamba

Rumbi Matamba

Analyst, GI-TOC

Abdel Aziz Mossi

Abdel Aziz Mossi

Director, SOAFRICA CONSEILS SARL

Parfait N'Goran

Parfait N'Goran

Researcher and Lecturer, University of Bouaké

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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

Yuyun Ismawati

Louise Taylor

Willie Wilson

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

08 December 2021, 10:00 AM

Alexandre Bish

Jalel Harchaoui

Alice Fereday

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

Lindy Mtongana

Wolf-Christian Paes

Organized crime and instability: Mapping illicit hubs in West Africa

07 September 2022, 11:00 AM

Kingsley Madueke

Lyes Tagziria

Heike Thiele

Lucia Bird

Mouhamadou Kane

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

Zakaria Soré

Eleanor Beevor

Désiré NIKIEMA

Diálogos para la resiliencia en Latinoamérica y el Caribe 2022

25 October 2022, 03:00 PM

Griselda Triana

Lucia Dammert

Guillermo Vazquez del Mercado Almada

Livia Wagner

Nicolás Zevallos Trigoso

Celia Medrano

Gold, conflict and criminality in West Africa

28 November 2022, 11:00 AM

Mouhamadou Kane

Marcena Hunter

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

Lawan Danjuma Adamu

Manji Mangrock

Flore Berger

Kingsley Madueke

Nengak Daniel Gondyi

Locked Horns – Cattle rustling and Mali’s war economy

16 May 2023, 02:00 PM

Kalidou Sidibé

Modibo Galy Cissé

Mouhamadou Kane

Flore Berger

Kingsley Madueke

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

11 July 2023, 01:00 PM

Eleanor Beevor

Antônio Sampaio

Abdel Aziz Mossi

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

05 September 2023, 07:00 PM

Valerii Bolgan

Tuesday Reitano

Fedir Sydoruk

The Launch of the Global Organized Crime Index 2023

26 September 2023, 02:00 PM

Mark Shaw

Laura Adal

Global Initiative

Rumbi Matamba

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

04 October 2023, 02:00 PM

Parfait N'Goran

William Assanvo

Flore Berger

Oumarou Paul Koalaga

Mouhamadou Kane

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

05 October 2023, 02:00 PM

Daniel A. Amankwaah

Mouhamadou Kane

Gabriel de Santis Feltran

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

Shirleen Chin

Virginia Comolli

Huib van Westen

Ioana Cotutiu

Yeo Bee Yin

Time of Troubles: The Russian underworld since the Ukraine invasion

18 December 2023, 03:00 PM

Tuesday Reitano

Mark Galeotti

Federico Varese

Yuliya Zabyelina

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

05 June 2024, 07:30 AM

Mark Shaw

Virginia Comolli

Peter Aitsi

Laura Adal

Tamasailau (Sailau) Suaalii-Sauni

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

04 November 2024, 01:30 PM

Tuesday Reitano

Mark Galeotti

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