Ernesto Savona

TRANSCRIME

Ernesto U. Savona is Professor of Criminology and Director of TRANSCRIME, Joint Research Centre on Transnational Crime at the Università Cattolica of Sacred Hearth in Milan. He is also Professor of Methodology of Criminological Research at the University of Palermo.  From 2003 he is the Editor in Chief of the European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, an international refereed Journal published by Springer.  

He has been consultant to the United Nations, Council of Europe, the European Union and the Australian Government. He was also nominated President of the European Society of Criminology for the years 2003/2004. In June 2011 he was appointed Chair for the term 2011-2012 of the Global Agenda Council on Organized Crime of the World Economic Forum. Now he is a member of the EU Commission experts group on Policy needs for data on crime & criminal justice  

He has been coordinating many international projects funded by local, national and international entities. Furthermore, he takes part as speaker in many conferences and seminars at national and international level. He has published extensively on organized/economic crime, illicit markets, money laundering, mafias and prevention policies against organized crime.