The Terrorist-Criminal Nexus: An Alliance of International Drug Cartels, Organized Crime and Terror Groups
Thursday 03 October, 2013
6:15 - 8pm, $0/Rsvp
Bard Globalization and International Affairs
36 West 44 Street, Suite 1011
Dr. Vanessa Neumann is President and CEO of Asymmetrica. Asymmetrica provides custom-tailored strategies for its Fortune 100 and government clients to counter transnational threats and criminal networks to either enhance national security or defend brand integrity.
Dr. Neumann is currently group leader at the High Level Risk Forum Task Force on Charting Illicit Trafficking at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). As an expert on illicit trafficking and strategies to confront crime-terror pipelines, she has consulted for Interpol and the Asymmetric Warfare Group, and is a regular speaker to the US Departments of State and Defense.
Dr. Neumann is a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, in both their Program on National Security and their Center for the Study of Terrorism. She also co-chairs FPRI's Manhattan Initiative. She is an Associate of the University Seminar on Latin America at the Institute of Latin American Studies, located a at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University.
She received her Ph.D. in political philosophy from Columbia University for her dissertation: The Autonomy and Legitimacy of States: A Critical Approach to Foreign Intervention.
From 2005-2007, Dr. Neumann was Assistant Professor of political philosophy at Hunter College of The City University of New York, while consulting for the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) on armed conflict in Colombia and working with Prof. Thomas Pogge at the Center for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) in Canberra, Australia, on the alleviation of extreme poverty.
Dr. Neumann has also worked in corporate planning and corporate finance in Caracas.
A native Venezuelan, Dr. Neumann has worked as a journalist in Caracas, London and the United States. She is a regular contributor to The Weekly Standard on Latin American politics. She has also written for The (London) Sunday Times, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph and Standpoint, been interviewed for The New York Times, the BBC, Al Jazeera English, Fox News, Veja, el Nuevo Herald, NTN24 and Caracol radio, and spoken at Columbia University, Yale University, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and the National Defense University.