Tuesday Reitano is the Deputy Director of the Geneva-based Global
Initiative against Transnational Organised Crime (www.globalinitiative.net)
and a senior research advisor at the Institute for Security Studies in Pretoria.
Tuesday was formerly the director of CT MORSE, an independent
policy and monitoring unit for the EU’s programmes in counter-terrorism,
and for 12 years was a policy specialist in the UN System, including
with the UN Development Programme (UNDP), the UN Development
Group (UNDG) and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), as
well as a number of years in a boutique consulting firm as an advisor on
justice, security and governance issues.
Tuesday has authored numerous policy-orientated and academic
reports with leading institutions such as the UN, World Bank and
OECD on topics ranging from organised crime’s evolution and impact
in Africa, human smuggling, illicit financial flows, and the nexus between
crime, terrorism, security and development. She has co-authored a book
on human smuggling, Refugee, Migrant, Smuggler, Saviour that was
published by Hurst in September 2016.