About the Index

Based on the 2019 ENACT Organised Crime Index for Africa, the Global Organized Crime Index is a key flagship project of the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC). It is a multi-dimensional tool that assesses the level of criminality and resilience to organized crime for 193 countries along three key pillars – criminal markets, criminal actors and resilience. Developed over a two-year period, this third iteration of the Index covers the year 2024 and draws from both quantitative and qualitative sources. The tool is underpinned by over 350 expert assessments and evaluations by the GI-TOC’s regional observatories.

The objective of the Index is to provide metrics-based information that would allow policymakers and continental and regional bodies to prioritize their interventions on the basis of a holistic assessment of where vulnerabilities lie, and equip them with the means to measure the efficacy of their responses to mitigate the impact of organized crime.

Scores

Index composition

The Global Index measures criminality and resilience for each country on a scale of 1 to 10. Countries’ criminality scores are made up of the average of ten criminal markets and four criminal actor types. While encompassing a range of activities, criminal marketscan be thought of as the political, social and economic systems surrounding all stages of the illicit trade and/or exploitation of commodities or people. Criminal actor scores are based on assessments of the structure, control and influence of groups engaged in organized criminal activities. The higher the criminality score a country has, the more severe its criminality conditions are.

Resilience scores are created by taking the average of 12 resilience indicators. These indicators represent the political, legal, economic and social spheres of society that when taken together, have the potential to provide holistic and effective responses to organized crime. Unlike criminality, the higher the resilience score a country has, the more effective its response measures are to organised crime.

The definitions of criminal markets, criminal actors, and resilience indicators, as used for the purpose of the Index, can be downloaded here. All Index scores have gone through extensive rounds of review and verification by thematic, geographic and technical experts, and are accompanied by qualitative country profiles to ensure these numbers make sense in the real-world context and to offer users a foundation to develop informed policies to counter organized crime.

Rankings

Sort and compare

While responses differ from country to country, organized crime is nevertheless a global problem. Under the criminality and resilience components of the Index, countries are ranked based on their scores in order to offer users the option for comparative analysis, both thematically and geographically, across the globe. Countries may have similar scores but for different reasons, so above all, country rankings are meant to start a conversation among policymakers and regional bodies, encouraging them to delve deeper into how and why organized crime affects their respective countries, and learn from one another in order to develop effective resilience strategies.

Profile

Country summaries

In addition to the scores and rankings, the Global Organized Crime Index website allows users access to country summaries that explain the context behind each country’s scores. These summaries provide the background information on each country's criminality and resilience, including their subcomponents (i.e. criminal markets and criminal actors), while highlighting key trends based on expert assessments.

Pyramid height

The criminal actors score is represented by the pyramid height on a scale ranging from 1 to 10.

Pyramid width

The criminal markets score is represented by the pyramid base size on a scale ranging from 1 to 10.

Panel height

The resilience score is represented by the panel height which can be identified by the side of the panel.

Compare

Make your own comparison

The Global Organized Crime Index offers a holistic framework of a country’s overall relationship to organized crime. At the same time, its subcomponents and indicators allow users to disaggregate such information and determine correlations with various impact areas in any given country, region and/or continent. Policymakers and other users are able to compare data geographically, substantively and, with future iterations of the Index, temporally, so that they can identify key trends over time.

People

Acknowledgements

The Global Organized Crime Index was developed by a core team at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime: Laura Adal, Kosyo Ivanov, Chiara Gentili, Ebru Erkan, Ioana Vasi, Tuesday Reitano and Mark Shaw. Index development was also supported by Alastair MacBeath, Dardan Koçani, Edgardo Sandoval, Gabriel Funari, Prem Mahadevan, Raouf Farrah, Rumbi Matamba, Sarah Fares and Virginia Comolli, as regional coordinators, as well as by Gabriel Granjo and Russell Gray. Credit to the GI-TOC's Publications team, Claudio Landi and Café.art.br for the design, visualizations and website.

In the process of developing this tool, the team drew on the support and expertise of more than 350 individuals and we would like to express our sincere gratitude to colleagues, experts, reviewers and research assistants for their tireless efforts to build a comprehensive and informative knowledge-sharing and analytical tool.

Over a two-year period, experiences and informed opinions were exchanged, and lessons learned in order to develop the third iteration of this Global Organized Crime Index. The Index itself was conceptualized years before the publication of the first iteration of the tool, and its realization would not have been possible without the foundational work under ENACT (Enhancing Africa’s Response to Transnational Organised Crime) − supported by INTERPOL and the Institute for Security Studies, and funded by the European Union and in part by the Government of Norway. We would also like to extend our gratitude to the United States Department of State for funding the 2021, 2023 and 2025 editions of the Global Organized Crime Index.

Technical reference group
Dr. Fiona M Underwood
Independent Statistical Researcher/Consultant
Georgios Antonopoulos
Northumbria University, Newcastle
Jonathan D Moyer, PhD
Director, Frederick S Pardee Center for International Futures
Karl Lallerstedt
Senior Fellow, GI-TOC
Dr. Leo S.F. Lin
Director, Institute for Asian Crime and Security
Professor Marc Tassé
University of Ottawa, (School of Management and Law School)
Dr. Michael Levi
Professor of Criminology, Cardiff University, Wales, UK
Dr. Patricio R Estévez-Soto
Lecturer in Security and Crime Science, University College London
Robin Cartwright
Senior Fellow, GI-TOC
Sara Batmanglich
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Dr. Sharon Ingrid Kwok
Lecturer, Criminology, School of Social Sciences, Western Sydney University
Yannick Vuylsteke
Former Head of the Ibrahim Index of African Governance
Experts
Abdiaziz Mahmoud Ismail
Independent Consultant
Dr. Adam Alhassan Adamu Bonaa
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Akizi Egnim Akala
Independent Consultant - Expert in Conflict, Peace and Security
Alberto Aziani
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Social Research - University of Milano-Bicocca
Aleksandar Srbinovski
Field Coordinator, GI-TOC
Aleksey Karpeka
Investigative Journalist, Buro Media
Alexandar Kupatadze
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Alexander Iskandaryan
Director, Caucasus Institute
Dr. Alexandre Bish
Head of Research Innovation: North Africa and the Sahel Observatory, GITOC
Alexandre Kukhianidze
Professor of Political Science, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University
Alexis A. Aronowitz, Ph.D.
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Alice Fereday
Senior Analyst, GI-TOC
Allan Gillies
Lecturer in Global Economy, University of Glasgow
Dr. Alvin Camba
Lead Scientist & Director of Research, Lyvi, Senior Adjunct Scientist, Associated Universities Inc.
Ana Lúcia Sá
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Prof. Andrea Giménez-Salinas Framis
Universidad Pontificia Comillas
Andrejs Vilks
Professor of the Faculty of Social Sciences of Riga Stradins University
Prof. Andrés Antillano
Instituto de Ciencias Penales Universidad Central de Venezuela
Anesa Agovic
Field Coordinator, GI-TOC
Dr. Angelo Constantinou
Adjunct Lecturer, Open University of Cyprus & Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Cyprus
Prof. Anja Osei
Professor of Comparative Political Science with a special focus on Africa, Freie Universität Berlin
Prof. Dr. Anna Sergi, LL.M. & Ph.D.
Professor of Criminology & Ethics Officer, Department of Sociology & Criminology, University of Essex
Dr. Anouk Ride
Research Fellow, Australian National University
Artis Velšs
Researcher, Riga Stradins University
Assis Malaquias
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Biro Attila
Context.ro
Avaneesh Raman
AML/CFT & Governance Consultant
Balázs Gáti
Independent Expert
Bernadette Carreon
Freelance Journalist (formerly covering Pacific for over 20 years)
Bojan Elek
Freelance Journalist
Boštjan Slak
FCJS Staff
Brett Peppler
Managing Director, Intelligent Futures Pty Ltd.
Bridget Welsh
Honorary Research Associate, University of Nottingham Malaysia
Bruno Martins Morais
Center for Climate Crime Analysis (CCCA)
Bruno Pantaleão
Expert
Dr. Camille Hernández-Ramdwar
Professor Emerita, Toronto Metropolitan University
Carlos Aníbal Peris Castiglioni
Universidad Nacional de Asunción
Carolina Duque
International Researcher and Professor
Dr. Carolina Sampó
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (Conicet)
Celia Medrano
Researcher
César A. Ipenza Peralta
Environmental Lawyer specialized in environmental matters
Charles Goredema
Independent Consultant
Charles Mafa
Managing Editor, MakanDay Centre for Investigative Journalism
Christabella Judith Aceng
Lecturer of criminal, human rights and international law & Independent Consultant
Kunal Naik
Psychologist - Addictologist & Drug Policy Expert
Dr. Concepción Anguita Olmedo
Professor in International Relations and Organized Crime, Universidad Complutense of Madrid and Senior Researcher, Complutense Institute of International Studies (ICEI)
Sir Crispian Barlow Bt
Senior Technical Advisor, Conservation Enforcement
Crispin Yuen
Director, Custos Advisory
Daniel Brombacher
Director: Europe Observatory, GI-TOC
Daniel A. Lachman
Strategy, Scenario and Transition Consultant & Sr. Partner, Naturata Global
Daniele Grasso
Data and Investigative Journalist, El País
Dr. Dany Franck A. Tiwa
Executive Director, African Centre for Crime and Security Studies (ACCSS)
Prof. David Bright
Deakin Covert Networks Lab, Deakin University
Dr. David Erkomaishvili
Lecturer in International Security, Charles University
Dr. Dávid Tóth, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor, University of Pécs, Faculty of Law, Criminology and Penal Execution Law Department
Dr. Deborah Alimi
Daleth Research
Dejan Milovac
Director, MANS' Investigative Center
Dr. Derica Lambrechts
Associate Professor, Stellenbosch University
Diana S. Kim, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Georgetown University
Prof. Dr. Dina Siegel
Criminology Department, Utrecht University
Fabrice A. Kodjo Ebeh, Ph.D.
International Expert on anti-corruption / AML / illicit financial flows
Dylan Kerrigan
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Edgardo Jose Mejia Gomez-Marquez
Attorney at Law
Dr. Eirini Stamouli
Dr. of Criminology & Staff member, Hellenic Open University
Elisabete Vilar
Researcher, NOVA University of Lisbon – School of Social Sciences and Humanities (NOVA FCSH)
Emadeddin Badi
Senior Fellow, GI-TOC
Dr. Emilia Jurgielewicz-Delegacz
Faculty of Law, University of Poland
Prof. Etannibi E. Alemika
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Eugénio Almeida, Ph.D.
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Evelyn Espinoza, Ph.D.
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Fabian Federl
Journalist & Research Fellow, 2024/25 Rainforest Investigations, Fellow at the Pulitzer Center
Fatjona Mejdini
Director: South Eastern Europe Observatory, GI-TOC
Felipe Botero Escobar
Head of Andean Regional Office, GI-TOC
Fiona Mangan
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Francisco Cuamea
Independent Journalist
François Mathieu
Independent Expert & GI-TOC Board Member
Galen Murton
Associate Professor, School of Integrated Sciences, James Madison University
Brig. General (rtd) Gaseikanngwe Peke
Independent Consultant
Gavin Slade
Associate Professor of Sociology, Nazarbayev University
Georges Nicette
Senior Lecturer on social work and sociology, Health and Social Care Department, University Of Seychelles (UNISEY)
Andreas Ravnsborg Daugaard
Research Director, Asociación para una Sociedad más Justa, Chapter of Transparency International in Honduras
Prof. Georgios A. Antonopoulos
Professor of Criminology, Northumbria University
Dr. Gideon Ofosu-Peasah
Consultant, GI-TOC
PD Mag. Dr. phil. habil. Gilles Reckinger
Karl Franzens Universität Graz, Institut für Kulturanthropologie
Golden Matonga
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Gorazd Meško
University of Maribor
Dr. Gulzat Botoeva
Senior Lecturer, Swansea University
Dr. Hai Thanh Luong
Lecturer in Criminology, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Griffith University
Hamid Azizi
Researcher, Flinders University
Dr. Mac Archer 
Analyst, GI-TOC
Dr. Hasan Hafidh
Director & Academic Consultant, HH Expert Consultancy
Dr. Hassan Ould Moctar
Independent Scholar & Consultant
Hayatte Abdou
Journaliste & Rédactrice en Chef, National Magazine Comores
Prof. Helgi Gunnlaugsson
University of Iceland
Dr. Henrietta McNeill
Research Fellow (Pacific Security, Geopolitics, Regionalism), Australian National University
Dr. Tamasailau Suaalii-Sauni
Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts, Criminology, University of Auckland
Dr. Henry Ivarature
Deputy Director, Strategic Partnerships, Pacific Security College, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University
Hugh Miles
Director, Al Shafie Miles Ltd.
Ibrahim Jalal
Senior Consultant, Horizon Insights Research and Advisory
Ivan Fischer
Digital Investigation Journalist, Agence France Presse
Ivan Rush Mugisha
Freelance Journalist: AFP, The Africa Report, The East African
Jackson P. Miller, MPP
Harvard Kennedy School
Jacqui Baker
Principal Fellow, Indo-Pacific Research Centre, Murdoch University
Dr. Jade Lindley
Expert member, GI-TOC
Dr. J. E. Hoare OBE
School of Oriental and African Studies
James Windle
Senior Lecturer of Criminology, University College Cork
Prof. Jan van Dijk
NSCR
Dr. Jarrod Sadulski
Global Organized Crime and Human Trafficking Consultant, Sadulski Enterprises LLC.
Jason Eligh
Senior Expert, GI-TOC
Jelle Janssens
Associate Professor of Criminology, Institute for International Research on Criminal Policy, Faculty of Law and Criminology, Ghent University
Jenni Irish-Qhobosheane
Senior Expert, GI-TOC
Jennifer Peirce
Independent Consultant
Jenny J Constantine
Strategic Consultant and Trainer, Transnational Organized Crime, Janus Consortium
Joaquín Gil Roca
Investigative Reporter, El País
Joelle Bassil
Independent Consultant
Johann van Loggerenberg
Consultant: Organised Crime, Tax, Customs, Excise, General Legal Advisor, Lifestyle Audit Advisor, Lecturer (post graduate studies), Author, Journalist, Conflict Negotiator and Mediator, Researcher and Analyst
John Collins
Director: Academic Engagement, GI-TOC & Editor-in-Chief: JIED
Dr. John Coyne
Australian Strategic Policy Institute
John Kamma
Founder & Executive Director, Citizens Bureau for Development and Productivity
Dr. John P. Sullivan
Safe Communities Institute, University of Southern California
Jonathan D. Rosen
New Jersey City University
Jonathan R Beloff
Postdoctoral Research Associate, King's College London
Jonathan Rozen
Independent Researcher
Prof. Dr. Joongyoung Hahm
Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Graduate School, International Relations
Josefina Salomón
Journalist and Researcher
Julia Stanyard
Senior Analyst, GI-TOC
Prof. Jüri Saar
Researcher, Institute of Internal Security, Estonian Academy of Security Sciences
Dr. Kemel Toktomushev
Senior Research Fellow, University of Central Asia
Kiakisiki Q. Do Nascimento
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Koalaga Oumarou Paul
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Kokou Dela Afande
Independent Worker
Kristof Titeca
Professor in Development Studies, Institute of Development Policy, University of Antwerp
Kwesi Aning
Director, Faculty of Academic Affairs and Research, Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Center, Accra
Dr. Lambros Kaoullas
Director, Executive Education Centre, University of Limassol & Visiting Lecturer, Police Cadet Training Programme, University of Cyprus
Lavdim Hamidi
Journalist
Lester Ramirez Irias
Professor, Central American Technological University
Dr. Loria-Mae Heywood
Child / Human Trafficking and Development Specialist
Luca Raineri
Assistant Professor, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa
Lucas Olo Fernandes
Lawyer, Equatorial Guinean Commission of Jurists
Lucy Poni Modi Igga
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Lukas Diko
Chairman, Investigative Center of Jan Kuciak
Lyes Tagziria
Senior Analyst, GI-TOC
Magdalena Lembovska
Independent Expert
Marcena Hunter
Director of Extractives, GI-TOC
Margherita Bettoni
Investigative Journalist
Beatriz Seabra de Brito
Guest Professor, Nova School of Law
Mariana Botero Restrepo
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Dr. Marika McAdam
Independent Consultant
Mark Lauchs
Associate Professor, Queensland University of Technology
Mark Nuttall
Executive Advisor, Confidential
Mark Pegler
Independent Consultant
Martin Plaut
Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies and King’s College, University of London
Dr. Martin Thorley
Senior Analyst, GI-TOC
Martina Baradel
Marie Curie Fellow, University of Oxford
Dr. Matt Herbert
Head of Research: North Africa and the Sahel Observatory, GI-TOC
Matthew Nanes
Associate Professor, Saint Louis University
Gustavo Mauricio Bastien Olvera
Citizen Security Specialist
Dr. Mauricio Vieira
Assistant Professor, Head, Chair on Countering Illicit Trade and Preventing Transnational Organized Crime, University for Peace
Max Daly
Journalist and Analyst specialising in drugs and organised crime, Orwell Prize Winner, Author, Former Global Drugs Editor at Vice World News
Dr. Max Gallien
Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies
Melodie Cerin
Resilience Fund Liaison, GITOC
Dr. Mentor Beqa
Aleksander Moisiu University
Michael Dyson
Independent Consultant
Michael Kabuni
Ph.D. Student, Department of Pacific Affairs, Australian National University
Dr. Michael Main
Independent Consultant and Research Affiliate, Initiative for Peacebuilding, School of Social and Political Sciences, The University of Melbourne
Michael McLaggan
Analyst, GI-TOC
Michael E Picard
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Dr. Mohammed Rahman
Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Birmingham City University
Gisa Dr. Moses Ma’alo Faleolo
Lecturer in Criminology, Victoria University of Wellington
Muazu Umaru 
Director, Policy and Research, GIABA, Dakar
Nacer Lalam, Ph.D.
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Najib Shah
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JUDr. Natália Hangáčová, Ph.D.
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Dr. Natalia Ollus
Director, the European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control, affiliated with the United Nations (HEUNI)
Dr. Navi Ramgolam
Maritime Security Expert
Nesma El Shazly
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Dr. Nicholas Gilmour
Consultant and Author
Dr. Nilia Viscardi
Universidad de la República, Uruguay
Nonduduzo Kunene
Senior Journalist, Times of Eswatini
Odd Berner Malme
Senior Advisor, GI-TOC
Ofani Eremae
Editor, In-depth Solomons
Olga Biegus
Environmental Crime and Policy Expert
Otto A. Escartín Romero
Independent Researcher / Consultant in International Organized Crime
Pahrur Roji Dalimunthe
Managing Partner, Dalimunthe & Tampubolon Lawyers (DNT Lawyers)
Patrick Winn
Investigative Journalist based in Southeast Asia
Paul Chaves
ISEC, COLADCA
Paul Larsson
Professor, the Norwegian Police University College
Pauline Tweedie
The Asia Foundation
Pavla Holcova
Editor, OCCRP
Dr. Peggy Chaudhry
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Dr. Peng Wang
Department of Sociology, The University of Hong Kong
Petr Kupka
Department of Anthropology, University of West Bohemia
Philip Alpers
Adjunct Associate Professor, Sydney School of Public Health, The University of Sydney
Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy
Research Fellow, CNRS
Rabi Raj Thapa
Additional Inspector General of Armed Police Force (Retired), Freelance Security Consultant
Racheline Tantular
Independent Consultant
Radu Nicolae
Anti-Corruption and Asset Recovery Expert, Association for Cooperation and Sustainable Development
Rasmus Munksgaard 
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Social Work, Aalborg University
Rebecca Feathers
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Dr. Reginas Ndayiragije
Research Associate, IOB, University of Antwerpen
Rejimon Kuttappan
Independent Labour Migration Expert and Forced Labour Investigator
Renato Rivera Rhon
Senior Analyst, GI-TOC
Riana Raymonde Randrianarisoa
Investigative Journalist, Independent Consultant & Editor-in-Chief, Gazety Taratra
Richard Andrew Clark
Visiting Adjunct Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies
Dr. Richard Horsey
Independent Consultant
Rikkert Reijnen
Wildlife Crime Expert, Independent Consultant
Roy McComb
Director, Inquisitio Consulting Ltd
Ruggero Scaturro
Senior Analyst, GI-TOC
Rukshana Rizwie
Researcher
Rundong Ning
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Ruslan Trad
Security Researcher, Atlantic Council's DFRLab
Ruth Freedom Pojman
RFP Advisory
Ryhor Nizhnikau
Senior Research Fellow, Finnish Institute of International Affairs
Sally Bilaly SOW
Independent Journalist and Consultant
Samina Ahmed, Ph.D.
South Asia Project Director and Senior Asia Advisor, International Crisis Group
Dr. Samuel Ayele Bekalo
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Sam Ratner
Policy Director, Win Without War
Sanam Vakil
Director, Middle East and North Africa Programme, Chatham House
Dr. Sandra Scicluna, Ph.D.
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Sandro Mattioli
Journalist, President of Mafianeindanke e.V. and Author
Prof. Saviour Formosa
Department of Criminology, University of Malta
Prof. Janice Formosa Pace
Head of Department, Department of Criminology, University of Malta
Selma El-Obeidi
Independent Researcher
Sherif Mohyeldeen
Senior MENA Analyst and Member, The Global CSO Coalition on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism
Shondell Albert
Independent Consultant
Dr. Siegfried O. Wolf
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Silvia Allegrezza
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Singo Mwachofi
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Stephen Schneider
Department of Criminology, Saint Mary's University, Halifax
Steven Broad
Independent Consultant
Sveinn Helgason
Policy Analyst
Takuma Kamada
Associate Professor, Osaka School of International Public Policy, Osaka University
Tarik Weekes
Research Fellow, The University of the West Indies
Tayra Ivonne Barsallo
Customs Expert and Security Consultant
Tegshbayar Darambazar
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Telita Snyckers Norgaard
Independent Tax and Customs Optimization Consultant
Dr. Tess Newton Cain
Adjunct Associate Professor, Griffith Asia Institute
Thierry Vircoulon
Associate Researcher, French Institute for International Affairs
Tim Morris
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Timo Shihepo
Media Practitioner and Researcher
Tobias Schneider
Research Fellow, Global Public Policy Institute
Tom Westcott
Freelance Journalist
Tomas Maule
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Tomslin Samme-Nlar
Independent Researcher
Trung Pham
Program Manager, Counter Wildlife Trafficking, WCS Vietnam
Uttara Mendiratta
PhD Candidate, Faculty of Law, The Department of Criminal Law and Criminology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Valeska Troncoso
Professor, Universidad de Santiago de Chile & Researcher and Co-coordinator of the Center for Studies on Transnational Organized Crime (CeCOT), International Relations Institute, University of La Plata
Vel Moonien
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Dr. Viatcheslav Avioutskii
Professor, ESSCA School of Management, Paris
Victor Hugo Aguirre Paredes
Senior Consultant on Crime Prevention
Dr. Wendell C. Wallace
Attorney-at-law, Mediator, Senior Lecturer (criminology and criminal justice), The University of the West Indies
Wojciech Filipkowski
The International Centre for Criminological Research and Expertise, The University of Bialystok
Dr. Yolande Kyngdon-McKay
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Dr. Yulia Vorobyeva
Lecturer, Florida International University
Yvon Dandurand
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Yvonne Khor, Ph.D.
Independent Expert and Consultant

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This project was funded in part by a grant from the United States Department of State. The opinions, findings and conclusions stated herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the United States Department of State.

ENACT is funded by the European Union and implemented by the Institute for Security Studies and INTERPOL, in affiliation with the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime.