Organized Crime Experts
Founder and Senior Scholar, International Institute of Learning for Social Reconciliation, Guatemala
Dr. Cynthia J. Arnson is director of the Latin American Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Her most recent work has focused on democratic governance, conflict resolution, citizen security and organized crime, international relations, and U.S. policy in the Western hemisphere. Arnson is a member of the editorial advisory board of Foreign Affairs Latinoamérica, th...
Co-director of InSight Crime
Steven Dudley is the Co-director of InSight Crime, a joint initiative of American University in Washington DC, and the Foundation InSight Crime in Medellin, Colombia, which monitors, analyzes and investigates organized crime in the Americas. Based in Washington D.C., Dudley works with a team of eleven investigators and various contributors throughout the region to give the public a more complete v...
A journalist, Ilan has written for The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Slate, US News & World Report, The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, and Travel & Leisure, among other publications.
A 2007 – 2009 Journalism Fellow at The Asia Society, he was the recipient of the 2008 Lange-Taylor Prize, and was the recipient of a Knight International Journalism Fellowship, a Ruhr Grant from the University of Dortmund and the Erich Brost Institute for International Journalism, as well as grants from the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting and The Nation Institute. Last fall he was a jou...
Fellow, The Century Foundation and Freelance Nonfiction Writer
Patrick Radden Keefe is a staff writer at The New Yorker and a fellow at The Century Foundation. His research and writing focus on international security, illicit networks, corruption and transnational crime, as well as espionage and civil liberties. He is the author of The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream (Doubleday, 2009) and Chatter: Dispatches fro...
Director, Police Science and Security & Safety Leadership Programs, George Washington University
Eric L. Olson is the Associate Director of the Latin American Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. His research and writing has focused primarily on security issues and the impacts of crime, organized crime, and violence on democracies. He has also written about police reform and judicial institutions as a vehicle for addressing the p...