Vanda Felbab-Brown is an American expert on internal and international organized crime. She is a senior fellow
with the center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence in the Foreign Policy program
at the
Brookings Institution
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, a
Washington
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* Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States
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** Washington metropolitan area, the metropolitan area centered on ...
-based
thinktank
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.
Education
In June 1999 Felbab-Brown obtained a B.A. in government from
Harvard University
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. In February 2007 she completed a Ph.D. in political science at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...
.
Career
In 2007 Felbab-Brown worked as assistant professor at the
School of Foreign Service at
Georgetown University
Georgetown University is a private university, private research university in the Georgetown (Washington, D.C.), Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded by Bishop John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore), John Carroll in 1789 as Georg ...
. In fall 2008 she became adjunct professor at the university. In 2009 and again in 2011 she was asked to work as adjunct professor at the
University of Delaware
The University of Delaware (colloquially UD or Delaware) is a public land-grant research university located in Newark, Delaware. UD is the largest university in Delaware. It offers three associate's programs, 148 bachelor's programs, 121 mas ...
. In 2012 and 2013 she was guest lecturer at the
School of Advanced Military Studies
The School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS) is one of four United States Army schools that make up the United States Army Command and General Staff College (CGSC) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. This "enormously rigorous" graduate school compr ...
in
Fort Leavenworth
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. From March 2012 until July 2013 she also was on the advisory board of the Modernizing Drug
Law Enforcement
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Initiative. Since June 2013 she has been a member of the Economics of International Drug Strategy expert group which is organized by the
London
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School of Economist's IDEAS.
Since March 2017 she is a senior fellow for
foreign policy
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at the Brookings Institution in
Washington, D.C.
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In addition, she is involved in a number of projects at the Institution. She is co-director of the project "Reconstituting Local Orders" as well as director of the "Improving Global Drug Policy: Comparative Perspectives and
UNGASS 2016" project.
Awards
* Carroll Wilson Award,
MIT Sloan School of Management
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MIT Sloan offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree programs, ...
, 2005
*
American Political Science Association
The American Political Science Association (APSA) is a professional association of political science students and scholars in the United States. Founded in 1903 in the Tilton Memorial Library (now Tilton Hall) of Tulane University in New Orleans, ...
2007
Harold Lasswell
Harold Dwight Lasswell (February 13, 1902December 18, 1978) was an American political scientist and communications theorist. He earned his bachelor's degree in philosophy and economics and was a PhD student at the University of Chicago. He was ...
Award for the Best Dissertation in the Field of
Public Policy
Public policy is an institutionalized proposal or a decided set of elements like laws, regulations, guidelines, and actions to solve or address relevant and real-world problems, guided by a conception and often implemented by programs. Public p ...
, September 2007
* Outstanding Book Award for Aspiration and Ambivalence from
Association of American University Presses, 2013
Publications
* Shooting Up:
Counter-insurgency
Counterinsurgency (COIN) is "the totality of actions aimed at defeating irregular forces". The Oxford English Dictionary defines counterinsurgency as any "military or political action taken against the activities of guerrillas or revolutionar ...
and the War on Drugs (Brookings 2010)
* Bringing the State to the Slum: Confronting Organized Crime and Urban Violence in
Latin America
Latin America or
* french: Amérique Latine, link=no
* ht, Amerik Latin, link=no
* pt, América Latina, link=no, name=a, sometimes referred to as LatAm is a large cultural region in the Americas where Romance languages — languages derived f ...
(Brookings 2011);
* Calderón's Caldron: Lessons from
Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...
’s Battle Against Organized Crime and Drug Trafficking in
Tijuana
Tijuana ( ,["Tijuana"](_blank)
(US) and [< ...]
,
Ciudad Juárez
Ciudad Juárez ( ; ''Juarez City''. ) is the most populous city in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. It is commonly referred to as Juárez and was known as El Paso del Norte (''The Pass of the North'') until 1888. Juárez is the seat of the Ju ...
, and
Michoacán
Michoacán, formally Michoacán de Ocampo (; Purépecha: ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Michoacán de Ocampo ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Michoacán de Ocampo), is one of the 32 states which comprise the Federal Entities of ...
(Brookings, 2011)
* Aspiration and Ambivalence: Strategies and Realities of Counterinsurgency and State-building in
Afghanistan
Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is bordere ...
(Brookings, 2013)
References
External links
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Harvard College alumni
MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences alumni
Walsh School of Foreign Service faculty
University of Delaware faculty
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Members of the Inter-American Dialogue
Brookings Institution people