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Hugh Griffiths
Senior Researcher
Hugh Griffiths
Hugh Griffiths was Head of the Countering Illicit Trafficking–Mechanism Assessment Project (CIT-MAP) at SIPRI and was seconded to the United Nations Panel of Experts monitoring the UN sanctions on North Korea.
From 1995 until 2008 he worked for governments, UN and non-governmental organizations in Eastern Europe and the Balkans, conducting investigative field research and analysis on issues surrounding clandestine political economy, war crimes, humanitarian aid and international programme management.
He has acted as an expert on behalf of the European Commission, various European Union member state ministries as well as United States government agencies, the UN Development Programme, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime and the International Criminal Court. In addition to academic and policy-orientated publications, he has written regular reports for the Institute of War and Peace Reporting (IWPR), Jane’s Intelligence Review and Jane’s Foreign Report.
Subject expertise
Trafficking via air and sea, transport and security, clandestine political economies, humanitarian aid and post conflict program management, investigative field research, training and coordination
Regional expertise
The Balkans, Eastern Europe, Africa
Languages
English, French, Swedish
Education
Masters of Philosophy (M.Phil), International Political Economy, University of Amsterdam; PhD research certificate, University of Amsterdam; post-graduate degree in international relations and law (ASIR), University of Amsterdam; Bachelor of Arts (BA) in US history, University of Sussex
Citizenship
United Kingdom
SIPRI COMMENTARY
- 17 July 2013: Shadow trade: how North Korea's barter trade violates United Nations sanctions (Expert comment, )
- 17 June 2013: Access to shipping companies’ data could help turn the tide against maritime smugglers (Expert comment, )
- Feb. 13: Sanctions beyond borders: how to make North Korea sanctions work (Essay, )
- July/Aug. 12: The new information superhighway: practical methods for sharing knowledge and stemming destabilizing arms flows (Essay, )
- Playing both sides: how air transport firms profit by shipping arms and aid (Essay, )
SIPRI AND PARTNER PUBLICATIONS
- Transfers of Small Arms and Light Weapons to Fragile States: Strengthening Oversight and Control (January 2013) 20 pp.
- Maritime Transport and Destabilizing Commodity Flows (January 2012) 52 pp.
- End-user Certificates: Improving Standards to Prevent Diversion (March 2010) 16 pp.
- Air Transport and Destabilizing Commodity Flows (May 2009) 62 pp.
- Building Air Traffic Capacity in Africa: Options for Improving Security and Governance (October 2009) 8 pp.
- Stemming Destabilizing Arms Transfers: The Impact of European Union Air Safety Bans (October 2008) 20 pp.
External publications
- United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), The Globalization of Crime: A Transnational Organized Crime Threat Assessment (UNODC: Vienna, 2010), contributing author