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.

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

Désiré NIKIEMA

Désiré NIKIEMA

Alliance pour une Mine Responsable (ARM), Alliance pour une Mine Responsable (ARM)

Dr Zakaria Soré

Dr Zakaria Soré

Théo Clément

Théo Clément

Senior Analyst, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

Dan Challender

Dan Challender

Researcher, Oxford University

Ceres Kam

Ceres Kam

Wildlife Campaigner, Environmental Investigation Agency

Sasa Djordjevic

Sasa Djordjevic

Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

Griselda Triana

Griselda Triana

Lucia Dammert

Lucia Dammert

Celia Medrano

Celia Medrano

Nicolás Zevallos Trigoso

Nicolás Zevallos Trigoso

Director, Instituto de Criminología y Estudios sobre la Violencia

Lawan Danjuma Adamu

Lawan Danjuma Adamu

Northern Nigeria Field Coordinator, GI-TOC

Marcena Hunter

Marcena Hunter

Thematic Lead on Extractives and Illicit Flows, GI-TOC

Kady Seguin

Kady Seguin

Impact

Dr Michel Yoboue

Dr Michel Yoboue

Kimberley Process Civil Society Coalition

Dr Anna Sergi

Dr Anna Sergi

Professor of Criminology, University of Essex

Rumbi Matamba

Rumbi Matamba

Analyst, GI-TOC

Manji Mangrock

Manji Mangrock

Plateau State Peacebuilding Agency

Flore Berger

Flore Berger

Sahel Analyst, GI-TOC

Nengak Daniel Gondyi

Nengak Daniel Gondyi

Project Officer, Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue

Abdel Aziz Mossi

Abdel Aziz Mossi

Director, SOAFRICA CONSEILS SARL

Dr Kalidou Sidibé

Dr Kalidou Sidibé

Professor, University of Law and Political Science of Bamako

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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

Abiba Diarrassouba

Flore Berger

Fofana Moussa

Scenarios for the future of organized crime in the Western Balkans

21 August 2025, 10:30 AM

Oliver Gnad

Walter Kemp

Fatjona Mejdini

Ioannis Vlassis

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