LCS-SA204: Managing Drugs, Illicit Markets and Global Public Health

Professor Michael Shiner is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Policy at the LSE. He is also assistant director of the Mannheim centre for criminology at the London School of Economics, and is a member of StopWatch, which works to ensure fair and accountable stop and search. He publishes extensively on policing and drug policy.

Dr. John Collins is Executive Director of the LSE IDEAS International Drug Policy Project as well as coordinator of the LSE Expert Group on the Economics of Drug Policy. John is coordinating a British Council funded project on “Illicit Drug Production and the Search for Peace in Colombia” as well as an LSE Research Division project on “Shifting Drug Strategies in Ireland and the UK”.

Professor Mark Shaw is the Director of the newly established Institute for Safety Governance in the Global South, a multidisciplinary research centre at the University of Cape Town (UCT). He also holds the South African National Research Foundation (NRF) Chair in Security and Justice. He is the Director of the Geneva based Global Initiative against Transnational Organised Crime.

Dr. Simon Howell is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Safety Governance in the Global South at the University of Cape Town. He is an acknowledged expert in the evolution of drug use and drug markets in Cape Town and South Africa more generally, and is engaged in a number of research and community initiatives in the city. He has published extensively on drug use in South Africa.