JIED Editorial Board – Board Member Bios

JAY ALBANESE

Jay Albanese is a Professor in the Wilder School of Government & Public Affairs

at Virginia Commonwealth University. Dr. Albanese is the author and editor of

20 books on organized crime, ethics, corruption, transnational crime, and criminal

justice. He is the recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award from Virginia

Commonwealth University, the Freda Adler Award from the American Society of

Criminology Division of International Criminology for significant contributions to

criminology internationally, and the Gerhard Mueller Award from the Academy

of Criminal Justice Sciences International Section for research contributions. He

has served as a consultant to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. He

is past president and a fellow of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, and

co-founder of Criminologists without Borders.

ETANNIBI ALEMIKA

Etannibi Alemika is a professor of criminology and sociology of law, specializing

in criminology, sociology of law, criminal justice reform, policy and practice, and

security governance. He holds BSc and MSc degrees in sociology from the

University of Ibadan in Nigeria and an MSc and PhD in criminology from the

Department of Social System Sciences, Wharton School at the University of

Pennsylvania. He is a member of Board of several professional and academic

organisations, including CLEEN Foundation in Nigeria; African Civilian Policing

Oversight Forum (APCOF) and Altus Global Alliance, and a member of the

American Society of Criminology and Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.

Mr. Alemika has published in several journals, including Journal of Criminal

Justice; International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice; Police

Studies: International Review of Police Development; Crime, Law and Social

Change; International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative

Criminology, Police Practice and Research. He is a leading researcher and author

on police and policing, prison and penal policy, security and criminal justice

reform in Nigeria, and teaches criminology, penology, and sociology of law at the

University of Jos.

DEBORAH ALIMI

With a background in development cooperation and governance support,

Deborah is a researcher on global drug policy, with a keen interest in the linkages

between drugs and sustainable development and building policy coherence

accordingly. In 2020, she launched the Daleth research (Drug policy AnaLysis

Evaluation & Thinking) initiative which aims, through research production,

scientific exchanges and inter-sectoral networking to document, advance and

convey the discussion on drugs, sustainable development, and human rights

coherence to interested scholars, civil society practitioners and policy-makers,

notably in France and Francophone countries.

Deborah is also an independent consultant, notably for the UNODC and the

Global partnership on drug policies and development (GPDPD). A graduate from

Georgetown University, she dedicated her PhD research at the University Paris

1 Panthéon Sorbonne, to the international governance of illicit drugs and its

global policy adjustments since the 2000s. She has worked as a policy analyst to

governmental, and intergovernmental organizations, including the OECD and the

French government. A member of the European Center for Sociology and

Political Science (CESSP), the ECPR Standing Group on Organized Crime (ECPR-

SHOC), and the expert network of the Global Initiative, Deborah engages with

both scientific and policy professionals’ communities through publications,

referee commitments, academic conferences and policy events.

DANIEL BROMBACHER

Daniel Brombacher is the head of the “Global Partnership on Drug Policies and

Development (GPDPD)”, a global program at the Deutsche Gesellschaft für

Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. Before joining GIZ, he worked at

the German think tank SWP, focusing on research and policy advice on drug

policy and organized crime. He holds a Master’s degree in political science from

the Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg and has published numerous articles,

policy papers and books on organized crime, drugs and development policies. He

has been a fellow of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation, the German

Academic Exchange Service, the Robert-Bosch-Foundation and member of the

Global Diplomacy Lab by the Mercator Foundation, the BMW-Foundation, the

Robert-Bosch-Foundation and the Federal Foreign Office.

JOHN COLLINS

John is the Director of Academic Engagement at the GI-TOC. He also serves as

Editor-in-Chief of JIED, LSE Press, and Treasurer/Secretary of the International

Society for the Study of Drug Policy (ISSPD). Before joining the GI-TOC, John

was Founding Executive Director of the LSE’s International Drug Policy Unit

(IDPU), a Fellow of the LSE US Centre and a Distinguished Visiting Fellow of the

Yale Centre for the Study of Globalization. He has served a number of Advisory

roles, including as an Advisory Board member to the new Centre for Court

Innovation Project, “Strengthening the Foundation for Drug Court Research”.

John’s historical research focuses on the political economy of international drug

control. He earned a PhD from the Department of International History at the

London School of Economics looking at Anglo-American relations and

international drug control over the period 1939-1964, culminating in the

creation of the UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs in 1961. John’s

contemporary policy interests focus on the political economy of international

drug control and the evolving dynamics on national and international policy

reforms.

JASON ELIGH

Jason is a Senior Expert with the Global Initiative Against Transnational

Organized Crime. His work focuses on the illicit drug markets of Africa and Asia,

with particular emphasis on the networked structures of illicit drug economies

and their diverse geographies; the identification and mapping of illicit supply

chains and flows; and analyses of the policy-related responses and impacts to

each.

CECILIA FARFÁN-MÉNDEZ

Cecilia Farfán-Méndez is Head of Security Research Programs at the Center for

U.S.-Mexican Studies (USMEX) at the University of California San Diego. She also

is an affiliated researcher with the Center for Studies on Security, Intelligence,

and Governance (CESIG) at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de Mexico

(ITAM) based in Mexico City. Dr. Farfán is an expert on organized crime and

female participation in criminal groups, and co-founded the Mexico Violence

Resource Project, an online platform providing analysis and resources for

journalists and policymakers on violence and organized crime in Mexico. Since

2020 she co-chairs the Public Security and Public Health working group of the

of the U.S.-Mexico Forum 2025 led by USMEX.

Farfán received her doctorate in political science from UC Santa Barbara, her

master’s degree in international affairs from Columbia University’s School of

International and Public Affairs, and her bachelor’s in international relations from

the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). She has been a recipient

of several research fellowships including the Fulbright Program, the UC Institute

on Global Conflict and Cooperation and Mexico’s National Council on Science

and Technology.In addition to her formal academic initiatives, Dr. Farfán has

consulted for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, is a columnist for

Mexico Today, member of the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized

Crime, the Urban Violence Research Network, the strategy committee for the

Journal of Illicit Economies and Development and heads the editorial board for

the Mexico and Central American Program of Noria Research.

GABRIEL DE SANTIS

FELTRAN

Gabriel Feltran is an urban ethnographer. For the last 20 years he studies the

‘world of crime’ in Brazil, especially the most important criminal group in the

country, the PCC. Have been an Invited Scholar at University of Oxford and

Goldsmiths College (2019), Humboldt University (2017, Kosmos Fellow) and

CIESAS Golfo (2015). Author of The Entangled City: crime as urban fabric in São

Paulo (Manchester Univesity Press, 2019 forthcoming), Irmãos: uma história do

PCC (Companhia das Letras, 2018).

Professor of Sociology, Federal University of Sao Carlos; Researcher at the

Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning (CEBRAP)

MAZIYAR GHIABI

Maziyar Ghiabi is Wellcome Lecturer in Medical Humanities and Politics.

His primary work has concerned the study of illegal drugs and ‘addiction’ in West

Asia, with a special focus on Iran and more recently Lebanon. Maziyar's first

book Drugs Politics: Managing Disorder in the Islamic Republic of Iran (London:

Cambridge University Press, 2019, now in paperback) was awarded the 2020

Book of the Year (Nikki Keddie Prize) by the Middle Eastern Studies Association

(MESA). Maziyar is also the author of Power and Illicit Drugs in the Global

South (Routledge, 2019).

FRANCESCO GIUMELLI

Francesco Giumelli is Associate Professor and deputy head of Department at the

Department of International Relations and International Organization (IRIO) of

the University of Groningen.

Before moving to Groningen as Assistant Professor in 2013, he had been

Assistant Professor at the Department of International Relations and European

Studies of Metropolitan University Prague (MUP) from 2008 to 2013. In Prague,

he was also a member of the Center for Security Studies (C4SS) at MUP.

He graduated in Political Science at the University of Bologna and holds a Ph.D.

in Political Science/International Relations from the Institute for Humanities and

the Social Sciences (formerly the Italian Institute of Human Sciences at the

University of Florence). Francesco was a Jean Monnet fellow at the European

University Institute in 2010/2011 and Visiting Researcher at the Fundação

Getulio Vargas in Rio de Janeiro in 2012.

SIMONE HAYSOM

Simone Haysom is a Senior Analyst with the Global Initiative with expertise in

urban development, corruption and organised crime, and over a decade of

experience conducting qualitative fieldwork in challenging environments.

Between 2010 and 2013, she worked for the Overseas Development Institute

in London, researching urban displacement in the Middle East, Central Asia, and

Africa, and humanitarian policy in conflict zones. Before joining the GI in 2017,

she worked as a freelance consultant, researching issues related to conflict,

development and organised crime for organisations including Médecins Sans

Frontières, the Institute for Security Studies, and the University of Cape Town.

She is the author of The Last Words of Rowan du Preez: Murder and Conspiracy on

the Cape Flats, published by Jonathan Ball. She has a Mphil in Geography from

the University of Cambridge, where she was a Gates Scholar. She has been a

Visiting Academic at the School of African Studies at the University of Oxford,

and is currently an associate of the Oceanic Humanities for the Global South

research project, based at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Simone has been closely involved with GITOC’s pioneering work on heroin

markets in Southern and East Africa, including leading multi-country studies on

the development of illicit urban markets across the region. She has also led the

development of GITOC’s work on online illicit markets in illegal wildlife products

using machine-learning technology and is engaged in mapping transborder illicit

charcoal value-chains across East Africa.

ANNETTE HÜBSCHLE

Dr. Annette Hübschle is a senior research fellow with the Global Risk

Governance programme in the Public Law Department at the University of Cape

Town. She is the African and wildlife trafficking lead on the European Research

Council-funded TRANSFORM project, short for Trafficking transformations:

objects as agents in transnational criminal networks. Over the past 25 years,

Annette has led, conducted and published research on a variety of organised

crime and terrorist financing topics in Africa. She acts as a senior research advisor

to the Global Initiative against Transnational Organised Crime, and is a member

of the South African Department of Environmental Affairs-appointed task force

against wildlife poisoning, the IUCN Green Criminology Specialist Group, IUCN

Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy and IUCN Species

Survival Commission on Sustainable Use and Livelihoods Group, Environmental

Restorative Justice Network and several academic and policy review boards. Her

current research focuses on the governance of safety and security with a specific

focus on illegal wildlife economies and environmental futures, as well as the

interface between licit and illicit economies and criminal networks. She

specialises in data collection and qualitative interviewing in marginalised and/or

difficult to reach communities on sensitive research topics.

▪ Twitter handle: https://twitter.com/AHuebschle UCT

▪ Website: http://www.publiclaw.uct.ac.za/annette-hübschle-0

▪ TRANSFORM project: https://traffickingtransformations.org

CAITLYN HUGHES

Caitlin Hughes is an Associate Professor in criminology and drug policy and

Matthew Flinders Fellow at the Centre for Crime Policy and Research, Flinders

University, Australia. Caitlin has spent 18 years researching drug markets and

drug and alcohol policy, including 12.5 years at the National Drug and Alcohol

Research Centre, UNSW, working as part of the Drug Policy Modelling Program

- one of the leading drug policy research centres in the world. Her research seeks

to advance Australian and international drug policy by improving the evidence-

base into the effects of different legislative and law enforcement approaches to

drug use and supply and working with policy makers to identify avenues for more

effective responses to reduce drug-related health, social and criminal justice

harms. Her work has contributed to many policy and practice reforms within and

outside of Australia. Caitlin is also Visiting Fellow at the National Drug and

Alcohol Research Centre, UNSW, Vice-President of the International Society for

the Study of Drug Policy and on the editorial board for the International Journal

of Drug Policy.

KAREN JOE LAIDLER

Karen Joe Laidler is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre for

Criminology at the University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on drugs, sex

work, youth gangs, and women’s imprisonment. As a native San Franciscan, she

has been involved in criminological research since the 1980s, working with non-

profit organizations and government agencies in Northern California. She has

worked on a variety of primary and policy related research including: evaluation

of drug intervention programmes; juvenile court intervention; inmate grievance

processes; bail reform; sentencing guidelines; risk assessment for juvenile

detention; prison planning and classification systems for adult prisons; and drug

use problems among methamphetamine users.

She moved to Hong Kong in the 1990s, and has witnessed the development of

the city’s drug market over the past 25 years. Her recent projects include a study

on how young people obtain their drugs and social supply, drug use and risks

among young gay men, investment fraud, and social harms and service access for

ethnic minority youth in Hong Kong. She has been involved in harm reduction

and drug policy training in the Asia region for the past seven years, and co-hosted

the first Asia conference with the International Society for the Study of Drug

Problems.

She is an associate editor for Journal of Youth Studies, and sits on the editorial

board of Contemporary Drug Problems and Feminist Criminology, and on the

international associate editorial/advisory board of Punishment and Society and

Criminology and Criminal Justice respectively. She serves as a member of the Hong

Kong Law Reform Commission’s subcommittee in a review on laws and policies

related to sexual offenses.

Karen teaches criminology, social problems, and gender studies courses.

LUCY LAMBE

Lucy Lambe is a Scholarly Communications Officer at the London School of

Economics. She provides publishing support to research students and academics,

including finding the right place to publish books and journal articles, queries

around intellectual property, sharing their work online and using scholarly social

networks. She is currently working on a project to implement a publishing

platform for open access journals based at LSE. Prior to this Lucy was working at

Imperial College London supporting academics using the institutional repository

and funding for open access publishing.

SANDRA LEY GUTIÉRREZ

Sandra Ley is Assistant Professor at the Political Studies Division at the Center

for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE), where she also coordinates the

Program for the Study of Violence. Prior to her arrival at CIDE, she was a visiting

fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre

Dame. Sandra studies criminal violence and political behavior. Her research

focuses on the political causes and consequences of criminal activity. Together

with Guillermo Trejo, Associate Professor at the University of Notre Dame, she

is the coauthor of the book Votes, Drugs, and Violence. The Political Logic of

Criminal Wars in Mexico (Cambridge University Press, 2020). Her work has been

published in British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies,

Journal of Conflict Resolution, Politics & Society, Latin American Politics and Society,

Latin American Research Review, among other international academic journals.

Sandra received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Duke University in 2014.

GÜNTHER MAIHOLD

Günther Maihold, studied Sociology and Political Science and received his

Doctorate in 1987 at the University of Regensburg. There he worked as a

Research Fellow at the Institute for Scientific Policy and Public Law.

He spent eight years abroad working as a project manager in social policy

consulting in Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama and Costa Rica and at the Department

for Latin America and the Caribbean of the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation. In 1999

he was appointed Director of the Ibero-American Institute of the Prussian

Cultural Heritage Foundation in Berlin. Since June 2004 he has been Deputy

Director of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs/SWP.

08/2011–06/2015 on leave to assume the Wilhelm and Alexander v. Humboldt-

Chair of the DAAD in Mexico-City at Mexico’s National University (UNAM) and

El Colegio de México.

Günther Maihold was lecturer at the University / GH Duisburg and at the Latin

American Institute of the Free University of Berlin. Since November 2006 he has

been a Professor in Political Science at the Free University of Berlin.

KASIA MALINOWSKA

Kasia Malinowska is the director of the Global Drug Policy Program at the Open

Society Foundations, which promotes drug policies rooted in human rights, social

justice, and public health. Malinowska previously led the Open Society’s

International Harm Reduction Development program, which supports the health

and human rights of people who use drugs.

Before joining the Open Society Foundations, Malinowska worked for the United

Nations Development Program in New York and Warsaw, leading capacity

building and drug and HIV policy reform in Central and Eastern Europe and the

former Soviet Union.

Malinowska publishes regularly on drug policy as it relates to women, social

justice, health, human rights, civil society, and governance. Her academic

publications include works in the Lancet, the British Medical Journal, and the

International Journal on Drug Policy. Malinowska wrote her doctoral dissertation

on “HIV among Drug Users in Poland: The Paradoxes of an Epidemic.”

Malinowska coauthored Poland’s first National AIDS program; helped formulate

policy at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria; the World

Health Organization; and the Millennium Project Task Force on HIV/AIDS, TB,

and Malaria.

Malinowska holds an MSW from the University of Pennsylvania and a DrPH from

Columbia University.

ANGELA ME

Angela Me is the Chief of the Research Branch at the United Nations Office on

Drugs and Crime where she oversees global, regional and national research in

the areas of drugs and crime. She is responsible for global reference research

publications such as the World Drug Report, the Global Report on Trafficking in

Persons, the Global Study on Homicide, and the World Wildlife Crime Report.

While working for the United Nations since 1995, she has supported countries

to improve their statistical and analysis systems, and she has authored,

contributed and supervised the production of UN analytical reports,

international statistical standards, discussion papers, and inter-governmental

documents in the areas of drugs, crime, population, gender, disability, and

migration. She has served in the Scientific Committee of the European Agency

for Fundamental Rights. As an Italian national, Ms. Me holds a Ph.D. in statistics

from the University of Padua in Italy.

PETER REUTER

Peter Reuter is a Distinguished University Professor at the University of

Maryland, where he is a Professor in the School of Public Policy and in the

Department of Criminology.

In June 2019 he was one of two awardees for the 2019 Stockholm Prize in

Criminology, the leading prize in that field.

His early research focused on the organization of illegal markets and resulted in

the publication of Disorganized Crime: The Economics of the Visible Hand (MIT

Press, 1983), which won the Leslie Wilkins award as most outstanding book of

the year in criminology and criminal justice. Much of his research has dealt with

alternative approaches to controlling drug problems, both in the United States

and Western Europe. In recent years he has also been publishing on money

laundering control and on the flows of illicit funds from developing nations.

His books include (with Robert MacCoun) Drug War Heresies: Learning from Other

Places, Times and Vices (Cambridge University Press, 2001 Chasing Dirty Money:

The Fight against Money Laundering (Institute for International Economcs, 2004;

with Ted Truman) The World Heroin Market: Can Supply be Cut? (Oxford

University Press, 2009, with Letizia Paoli and Victoria Greenfield). He founded

and directed RAND’s Drug Policy Research Center from 1989-1993. From 2007-

2011 Dr. Reuter served as the first president of the International Society for the

Study of Drug Policy. He also served as editor of the Journal of Policy Analysis

and Management from 1999 to 2004. He has chaired three panels for the

National Academy of Sciences.

Dr. Reuter received his PhD in Economics from Yale.

ANNA SERGI

Anna Sergi holds a PhD in Sociology (2014), with specialisation in Criminology,

from the University of Essex, where she currently is a Professor. She specialises

in organised crime and comparative criminal justice and, more recently, drug

importations through seaports. She has published extensively in renowned

journals and she has authored five books (2021) (with a sixth book forthcoming

in 2022, and a seventh co-authored book expected in 2023).

Prior to her PhD Anna completed her degree in law at the University of Bologna,

and a Master of Law (LL.M.) in Criminal Law at Kings College London. Anna has

worked in the private sector shortly too, first in Forensics for Pricewaterhouse

Coopers in Milan and afterwards in the Italian Desk of Withers LLP in London.

Anna has been a Visiting Scholar in various institutions such as New York

University, University of Melbourne and University of Montreal and she has been

a Consultant for the Australian Institute of Criminology.

During her research she has worked with the Australian Federal Police, Royal

Canadian Mounted Police, FBI, Italian Antimafia, UK National Crime Agency and

Europol. Anna has received grants for research from the Economic and Social

Research Council, the British Academy and the Leverhulme Trust. She is the

recipient of the 2017 Award Italy Made Me by the Italian Embassy in London,

the 2018 Essex Impact Award for her research on the Calabrian mafia in Australia

and the 2018 Italian Chamber of Commerce award “Talented Young Italians” for

the Research & Innovation category.

MICHAEL SHINER

Michael Shiner is an Associate Professor who joined the Department of Social

Policy in 2002. He is the departmental undergraduate tutor and is head of

teaching for the International Drug Policy Project (LSE IDEAS). Michael convenes

an undergraduate module on the ‘Psychology of Crime and Criminal Justice’ and

a postgraduate half-module on ‘Illegal Drugs and their Control’. Michael’s

substantive research revolves around three related themes - deviance, crime

control, and discrimination. Michael’s work has been published in a range of

journals including The British Journal of Criminology, Social Science and

Medicine, the Journal of Social Policy, the International Journal of Drug Policy;

and the British Journal of Sociology of Education. He has published several

books, including Stop and Search: The Anatomy of a Police Power (co-edited

with Rebekah Delsol, Palgrave MacMillan, 2015), Understanding Suicide: A

Social Autopsy (co-authored with Ben Fincham, Susanne Langer, and Jonathan

Scourfield, Palgrave MacMillan, 2011), and Drug Use and Social Change: The

Distortion of History (Palgrave MacMillan, 2009). Michael is a consultant to the

Fair and Effective Policing Project at the Open Society Justice Initiative; sits on

the National Stop and Search Advisory Group; and is a Trustee of StopWatch.

KHALID TINASTI

Khalid Tinasti is a Visiting Lecturer at the Graduate Institute Geneva, teaching

international drug policy governance, and a Visiting Fellow at the International

Center on Drug Policy Studies at the University of Shanghai (2020-22). He was

the Director, the Executive Secretary and a Policy Analyst at the Global

Commission on Drug Policy he joined in 2013. Previously, he worked as a

copywriter for UNAIDS, WHO, the Graduate Institute and others. Prior to that,

Khalid worked as a Press and Communications Officer in the office of the

Minister of Urban Cohesion and the Grand Paris Project in France, and as an

Administrative Officer in Gabon. Khalid holds a PhD in political science from the

Catholic University of Paris, and held research and teaching fellowships at the

Global Studies Institute at the University of Geneva (2018-2021), at the

Graduate Institute Geneva (2015-16) and a honorary fellowship at Swansea

University (2016-20).

GUILLERMO TREJO

Guillermo Trejo is Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame

and Director of the Violence and Transitional Justice Lab (V-TJ Lab) at the

Kellogg Institute for International Studies. Trejo’s research focuses on political

and criminal violence, social movements, human rights, and transitional justice in

Mexico and Latin America. He is the co-author of Votes, Drugs, and Violence: The

Political Logic of Criminal Wars in Mexico (Cambridge University Press, 2020) and

the author of Popular Movements in Autocracies: Religion, Repression, and

Indigenous Collective Action in Mexico (Cambridge University Press 2012). His

research has appeared in the American Political Science Review, British Journal of

Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Peace Research, Latin

American Research Review, Perspectives on Politics, and Política y Gobierno, among

other outlets. For his work on indigenous movements Trejo received five

international awards, including the Gabriel Almond, Mancur Olson, and Jack

Walker Awards from the American Political Science Association (APSA), and the

Charles Tilly Award from the American Sociological Association (ASA). For his

research on drug violence he was the co-recipient of the 2018 Best Article

Award from the Editorial Board of Comparative Political Studies and an Honorable

Mention from APSA’s Autocracy and Democracy Section.

Trejo is currently pursuing three research agendas: 1) Multiple projects on the

impact of transitional justice mechanisms on the reduction of criminal violence

in Latin America; 2) a study on indigenous resistance to narco rule in Mexico; and

3) a study of ecosystems of local violence in Mexico, focusing on selective and

mass violence in Mexico’s criminal wars.

ELRENA VAN DER SPUY

Centre of Criminology, University of Cape Town

Elrena is a programme convenor of the LLM/MPhil programme in Criminology,

Law and Society and Professor in the Department of Public Law, UCT.

Her research interests have coalesced around police and policing issues for a

while now. The thematic areas have included: history of South African police;

politics of police reform in context of transition; police policy transfer; police and

peacekeeping; commissions of inquiry into police in South Africa and police

narratives on policing.

MARIA ALEJANDRA VELEZ

LESMES

Director of the Center for Studies on Security and Drugs (CESED), Associate

professor at the School of Economics, Universidad de los Andes, founding

member of the Center for the Sustainable Development Goals for Latin America

and the Caribbean (CODS) and senior research fellow at EfD initiative. She is an

economist from Universidad de los Andes and Ph.D. in Economics of Natural

Resources from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She was an Associate

Professor in the area of Socio-Environmental Sustainability at the School of

Management, Universidad de los Andes (2008-2019). Her research focuses on

governance and institutional design for natural resource management in rural

communities of the global south. She is currently studying the design of payment

for environmental services programs, the impact of collective property in the

Pacific Coast of Colombia and the dynamics and expansion of illicit crops in

Colombia.