Bio

Louise Shelley is a Professor in the School of International Service of American University. She is the founder and director of the Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center. She specializes in transnational crime, the relationship between terrorism and transnational crime, human trafficking and smuggling. Her particular regional focus is the former Soviet Union. She is the author of Policing Soviet Society (Routledge, 1996), and has published numerous articles and book chapters on different aspects of crime, corruption and terrorism.

Erik R. Scott is a Ph.D. student in History at the University of California, Berkeley. He has travelled extensively in the Caucasus, and from 2002 to 2004 managed the Transnational Crime and Corruption Center's programs in Georgia. He is the author of several articles on Georgia and Russian-Georgian relations.

Anthony Latta has worked at the Transnational Crime and Corruption Center since August 2005. He has an MA from American University, with a focus in international economics and transnational crime. Before coming to AU and TraCCC, he worked as the economics editor at The Moscow News.