Understanding the Gendered

Impacts of Drugs, Drug Policy

and Drug Policy Enforcement

11–13 September 2017 l Budapest, Hungary

WORKSHOP

Participants’ Booklet

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Background .................................................................... 2

Outputs ........................................................................... 4

Participants’ profi le and contributions ................................ 5

SCHEDULE ............................................................................ 6

Workshop structure .......................................................... 6

Program .......................................................................... 6

Dinners ........................................................................... 12

LOGISTICAL INFORMATION ..................................................... 14

Arrival and accommodation ............................................... 14

Workshop venue ............................................................... 14

Meals .............................................................................. 16

Eating out ....................................................................... 16

Smoking .......................................................................... 17

Internet and WiFi ............................................................. 17

Social media ................................................................... 17

Weather in September ...................................................... 17

Personal safety and security .............................................. 18

Medical care .................................................................... 18

Workshop coordinators ...................................................... 19

Q&A on Central European University (CEU) in the news ....... 20

A Note on Hungary ........................................................... 22

Metro and suburban railway lines ....................................... 24

Useful Hungarian Phrases ................................................. 25

BIOGRAPHIES ........................................................................ 26

Lead ............................................................................... 26

Participants ..................................................................... 26

Facilitators ...................................................................... 41

Student assistants ............................................................ 42

SPP Global Policy Academy staff ....................................... 43

ORGANIZERS ......................................................................... 45

Open Society Foundations Global Drug Policy Program ........ 45

CEU School of Public Policy, Global Policy Academy ........... 45

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BACKGROUND

Despite modest progress in mainstreaming gender considerations in

areas such as development and security policy, gender is chronically

overlooked in drug policy design, implementation, monitoring and

evaluation. States are rarely held accountable by drug policy institutions

or donors for their failure to respect international treaty obligations in

relation to women and girls. The paucity of research and data on the

diversity of women’s experience of the illegal drug economy and of

drug policy enforcement compounds the weakness of gender sensitive

approaches and impedes the building of a gendered evidence base

to advance future policy reform strategies and mitigate current policy

impacts.

Critical perspectives on drug policy rarely address current failings

through a gendered or intersectional lens, and the ‘silo’ nature of the

drug policy ‘issue’ has led to the neglect of bridge building opportunities

with academic, policy and NGO communities working on gender issues

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(criminal justice, race, political economy). Similarly, the academic

community rarely engages with drug policy as a case study of egregious

gendered and human rights impacts. Even within the drug policy

community, coordination and communication between those working on

treatment and those working on criminal justice issues is often lacking.

With this in mind, we bring together a diverse group of experts and

practitioners for a three-day intensive workshop at Central European

University’s School of Public Policy in Budapest between 11 and 13

September 2017. The workshop is a closed, invitation-only event that

will aim to:

• fertilize critiques of drug policy with conceptual, theoretical and

practitioner learning from gender, development and security studies

and rights based approaches;

• discuss the ‘state of the art’ in terms of research, data and information

on the role of women and girls in illegal drug economies;

• analyze current research on the impacts of drug policy enforcement

on women and girls in areas that include security, criminal justice,

health, social services and recovery; and

• identify the most salient gaps in research, and strategies to address

them.

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OUTPUTS

First, an edited collection on the Gendered Impacts of Drug Policy. This

publication will bring together academics, practitioners and activists.

Edited collections are unfortunately neglected by many academic

colleagues under pressure to produce monographs and peer-reviewed

journal articles, while policy and activist colleagues have focused on

accessible pamphlets, reports and brochures. We propose to maximize

the best of both approaches and produce an accessible paperback with

the possibility of extensive market reach and translation. In order to

accelerate this process and enable us to telescope iteration and writing

up, we will be joined by a facilitator from Biggerplate (https://www.

biggerplate.com) with whom the workshop organizer, Julia Buxton,

recently enjoyed the most productive, time effi cient and intellectually

coherent workshop of her professional career.

Second, a policy document that will draw together the key fi ndings of the

workshop and which will be intended for presentation and contribution

to policy discussions at national, regional and international levels. Third,

the workshop will produce a syllabus for teaching and advocacy on the

gendered impacts of drug policy for use both in academic settings and

short course learning environments.

It is almost standard to suggest that further outputs will be sustainable

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networks and/or future conference proposals, so we take these as given

but with a strong emphasis on discussing how we can make these happen.

PARTICIPANTS’ PROFILE AND CONTRIBUTIONS

This is a closed, invitation-only workshop. All participants were carefully

chosen on the basis of their proven academic or professional contributions

to the fi eld of gender and drug policy. With a view of supporting inter-

regional and international experience sharing and collaboration, we

intended to invite the experts from around the world.

We aim to structure a fully collaborative environment, in which parti-

cipants can be confi dent in sharing, challenging and elaborating core

ideas and concepts. Due to excellent technology resources at CEU, we

will bring some colleagues in remotely to maximize our geographic reach.

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Schedule WORKSHOP STRUCTURE

Each session will be led by discussants (approximately 15 minutes per

discussant) in order to frame assessment through reference to current

research and advocacy. We acknowledge that the session delineations

set out below are somewhat arbitrary and that there are overlaps across

all of the separate sessions. As such, we expect to move backwards and

forwards across themes and issue areas and do not expect or encourage

sessions to be seen in isolation.

PROGRAM

All invited workshop participants have a broad range of (geographical and

thematic) skills, knowledge, expertise and engagement so we strongly

encourage broad participation in each of the sessions in order to provide

real depth and richness to our discussion and analysis of: a) what we

know about gender, the illicit drug economy and counter narcotics

impacts; b) how the gendered dimensions of risk and vulnerability are

evidenced; and c) how we can share research, best practice, lessons

learned and advance a policy reform agenda.

The scheduling aims to maximize the engagement of all participants.

We have divided sessions into morning and afternoon, each starting with

a panel discussion followed by an opening out of the conversation after

the coffee break. The panel discussions aim at amplifying the space for

participants to share their professional experience and insights.

Please note that the workshop will be opened to the public on Day 2,

as we plan to invite students and the wider CEU community to a lecture

entitled “Learning from the Latin American experience: policy and

advocacy advancements for incarcerated female drug offenders.”

Schedule

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Day 1: Monday, 11 September

9.00–9.30am

Housekeeping, participant introductions and overview of workshop aims

Julia BUXTON l Graham HUGHES l Lucia SOBEKOVA

9.30–10.45am

Framing the workshop

What is a gender perspective and how has a gendered perspective

been (or not been) incorporated into drug policy design, monitoring,

evaluation, research and advocacy?

LEAD DISCUSSANTS

Julia BUXTON l Rebecca SCHLEIFER l Coletta YOUNGERS

11.00am–1.30pm

Session 1

Understanding the gendered aspects of drug consumption. Women

and girls as consumers: prevalence, drug types and administration;

drivers of consumption; changes to demography and geography of

drug use; gender specifi c drug use risks.

LEAD DISCUSSANTS

Dasha OCHERET l Giavana MARGO l Iga JEZIORSKA

SKYPE INTERVENTIONS

Maria-Goretti ANE l Yatie JONET

1.30–2.30pm Lunch

2.30–5.00pm

Session 2

The gendered aspects of cultivation, production, distribution and

traffi cking activities; women and girls in the political economy of

drug supply.

LEAD DISCUSSANTS

Pien METAAL l Jennifer FLEETWOOD l Corina GIACOMELLO l Chontit CHUENURAH l Luciana POL l Judith ALDRIDGE

SKYPE INTERVENTION

Marcela MUÑOZ

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Schedule Day 2: Tuesday, 12 September

9.30–10.00am

Summary of the previous day

LEAD BY Graham HUGHES

10.00am–1.00pm

Session 3

What do we know about the gendered impacts of enforcement and

criminalization from the experience of women and girls: drug crop

eradication and displacement; women’s livelihoods; women and girls

in the criminal justice and penal systems.

LEAD DISCUSSANTS

Gloria LAI l Nayeli Urquiza HAAS l Julia BUXTON

SKYPE INTERVENTION

Arinta Dea Dini SINGGI

1.00–2.00pm Lunch

2.00–5.00pm

Session 4

What do we know about the gendered impacts of enforcement and

criminalization from the experience of women and girls in public

health and social care frameworks; gendered dimensions of recovery,

harm reduction and healthcare services; reproductive health, custody

rights; the experience of women as mothers, partners and carers of

drug dependent and/or criminalized users.

LEAD DISCUSSANTS

Kasia MALINOWSKA l Bethany MEDLEY l Louisa GILBERT l Claudia STOICESCU l Fiona GILBERTSON l Jane SLATER l Niamh EASTWOOD

SKYPE INTERVENTION

Olga RYCHKOVA l Susanne SHARKEY l Lynn PALTROW

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Schedule5.30–7.00pm

Public Lecture:

Learning from the Latin American experience: policy and advocacy

advancements for incarcerated female drug offenders

Regional and national human rights organizations in Latin America

have in recent years started to research the phenomenon of

excessive incarceration of women for low-level drug offenses. They

demonstrated that prisons have disproportionate negative impacts

on women and published a number of policy tools, among them the

“Guide for Drug Policy Reform in Latin America and the Caribbean”

to address the situation. Panellists will explore how their innovative

initiatives across the region impacted policy and advanced the rights

of this vulnerable prison population.

PANELISTS

Marie NOUGIER l Luciana POL l Corina GIACOMELLO l Juliana BORGES

MODERATOR

Julia BUXTON

Day 3: Wednesday, 13 September

9.30–10.00am

Summary of the previous day

LEAD BY Graham HUGHES

10.00am–12.30pm

Session 5

What can the drug policy community learn from the promotion and

experience of gender sensitive approaches in other policy areas

(ie development, security)? How does UNODC compare to

other UN institutions in its gender sensitivity? What are

the toolkits/guidelines and best practice approaches for

incorporating gender in policy cycles, research and

evaluation? Understanding and utilizing an intersectional

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lens; what does existing research on typologies of violence add to

our understanding of gendered violence in drug markets and counter

narcotics enforcement?

LEAD DISCUSSANTS

Mo HUME l Fiona MACAULAY l Juliana BORGES l Marie NOUGIER

l Niamh EASTWOOD l Judith ALDRIDGE

12.30–1.30pm Lunch

1.30–3.30pm

Session 6

Understanding human rights dimensions and rights-based approaches

as a tool for advocacy and change; are reform discussions and

options gender sensitive and oriented to the promotion of rights and

how can the human rights community be better engaged in drug

policy reform advocacy?

LEAD DISCUSSANTS

Rebecca SCHLEIFER l Julie HANNAH l Luciana POL

4.00–5.30pm

Session 7—Wrap up

Key fi ndings of the workshop; next steps in advocacy and research –

what are gaps, next steps and options for collaboration and network

building, what has been the value of the workshop for participants.

LEAD DISCUSSANTS

Graham HUGHES l Julia BUXTON l Lucia SOBEKOVA l Kasia MALINOWSKA l Coletta YOUNGERS

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Schedule DINNERS

Monday, 11 SeptemberWe will host a welcome dinner at VakVarjú Restaurant at 6.00pm.

VakVarjú Étterem

Paulay Ede utca 7

1061 Budapest

Directions from Starlight Hotel A to VakVarjú Restaurant B , to Kashmir

Indian Restaurant C and 0,75 bistro D

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Tuesday, 12 September

Dinner will be held after the

panel discussion. We will meet

at 7.30pm at Kashmir Indian

Restaurant.

Kashmir Étterem

Arany János utca 13

1051 Budapest

Wednesday, 13 September

Our farewell dinner will be held

at 6.00pm at 0,75 bistro.

0,75 bistro

Szent István tér 6

1051 Budapest

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We will arrange airport shuttle

transportation from the airport to

your hotel.

Participants will be accommodated at Starlight Hotel.

Starlight Hotel

Mérleg utca 6

1051 Hungary

Tel: (+36 1) 484 3700

WORKSHOP VENUE

The workshop will take place on the fi rst fl oor of CEU’s Nádor 15 building

in room 103. Nádor 15 is a 3 minute walk from the Starlight Suites.

VENUE:

CEU

Nádor utca 15

1051 Hungary

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MEALS

Coffee breaks and lunches will be served in the basement of the Nádor

15 building.

EATING OUT

There are many places that are close to CEU where you can have din-

ner. The list below is not exhaustive, so we encourage you to explore the

neighborhood. Restaurants marked with an * offer vegetarian dishes.

Bamba Marha Burger Bar

Október 6. utca 6 l open 11:30–24:00

Hummus Bar*

Október 6. utca 19 l open 10:00 (12:00 on Sun&Sat)–22:00

Istanbul Kebab

Október 6. utca 22 l open 08:00–05:00

La Trattoria

Október 6. utca 13 l open 11:00–23:00

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Padthai Wokbar*

Október 6. utca 4 l open 11:00–23:00

Rétesház (Strudel House)*

Október 6. utca 22 l open 9:00–23:00

Soup Culture*

Október 6. utca 19 l open 11:00-19:00, closed on Sundays

SMOKING

Smoking is strictly prohibited within fi ve meters of all building entrances.

INTERNET AND WIFI

Wifi is available on campus.

� Network name: CEU Guest

� Password: Budapest1991

European plugs (220V) are

available at CEU.

SOCIAL MEDIA

If you wish to tweet about the workshop, please use the handle @SPPCEU.

The hashtag is #drugpolicyreform.

WEATHER IN SEPTEMBER

Days are still warm but not as hot as in the summer. Expect pleasant,

sunny days. The average daytime high temperature is a comfortable

22°C, while the average nighttime low temperature drops to 12°C. Light

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the sun goes down. September is also characterized by increasing cloud

cover. The dress code for the workshop is casual.

PERSONAL SAFETY AND SECURITY

Budapest is a safe city but as with other popular tourist destinations you

need to be vigilant. There are three risks that we want to alert you to:

� Do not hail a cab on the street; call a cab. A reliable company is

CITY TAXI, at +36 1 211 1111. Make sure the meter is set at the

pickup rate of 470 HUF before you begin any journey.

� Shops, bars, and restaurants may give the wrong change as a result

of frequent visitor confusion over the multiple zeros in the currency.

MEDICAL CARE

The CEU Medical Center is open to participants with valid medical

insurance. There are two qualifi ed English-speaking doctors (male and

female) who hold regular consultation hours.

CEU Medical Center

Nádor utca 11 Building, Courtyard

Tel.: (+36 1) 327 3815

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Tanja MANNERS

Mobile: +36 30 943 0332

Email: MannersT@spp.ceu.edu

Livia MARSCHALL

Mobile: +36 30 629 1807

Email: MarschallL@spp.ceu.edu

Ilona PUSKÁS

Mobile: +36 20 945 4291

Email: PuskasI@spp.ceu.edu

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Q&A ON CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY (CEU) IN THE NEWS

1. Given the recent controversy around closing Central European

University, will the workshop take place?

Yes. As CEU President and Rector Michael Ignatieff has repeatedly

stated, CEU will continue all of its current academic activities as a

free and independent graduate university.

2. Is it true that CEU does not comply with Hungarian higher education

regulations?

This is patently false. CEU has been operating legally in Hungary for

over two decades.

3. Will CEU remain an independent institution able to exercise its

academic freedom?

A crucial part of higher education is the ability of students and

professors to be free to research the topics of their choice in an

open environment that welcomes debate and discussion. As CEU

President and Rector Michael Ignatieff wrote in his New York Times

op-ed on 3 April 2017, “Central European University, its board and its

administration will never surrender its academic freedom to anyone.”

4. Will CEU’s international faculty, its curriculum or the quality of

education be compromised?

Absolutely not. The quality of our programs and curriculum is well-

known throughout Europe and the world. CEU’s academic programs

are ranked highly by Times

Higher Education and QS

Rankings Worldwide. CEU

is recognized as the 39th

best young university in

the world according to

the latest Times Higher

Education ranking, pub-

lished on 5 April 2017.

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international studies were ranked 42nd in the world according to the

latest Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) subject ranking, as announced on

8 March 2017. CEU faculty remain dedicated to providing this high

level of academic excellence.

5. Is it safe for me to travel to Budapest to attend the workshop?

It is absolutely safe for you to travel to Budapest. We encourage all

participants to enjoy their stay but we do advise everyone to take

responsibility for their own safety. As usual, travelers should always

be aware of their surroundings and take caution if necessary. While

CEU staff are not in a position to produce regular updates, we will

review security information on a regular basis in advance of the

workshop and, should any serious issues come to light, circulate it

among participants both prior and during the workshop. We will in

particular draw participants’ attention to any incidents or potential

threats (such as large-scale demonstrations) in the vicinity of CEU

and hotels.

6. How can I show my support

for CEU?

First, thank you for your

support! We ask you to visit

the website https://www.ceu.

edu/taxonomy/term/380 for

ideas on how to show your

support.

7. Where can I stay up to date

with the developments?

We are dedicated to keeping our

community and our supporters informed of the situation. Please check

our website: http://www.ceu.edu for regular updates and follow us on

Facebook and Twitter.

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A NOTE ON HUNGARY

Capital city: Budapest

Population: ~ 9.9 million

Population of Budapest

~ 1.7 million (city)

~ 3.3 million (including periphery)

Language: Hungarian

Religion

54.5% Catholic, 19.5% Protestant, 0.2% other Christians,

0.1% orthodox Christian, 0.1% Jewish, 0.1% other.

Electric plug details: European plug (220V) with two circular metal pins

Country dialing code

Hungary: 0036 or +36 (00361 or +361 – for Budapest)

To dial Hungarian numbers from Hungary you can dial:

06 + 1 xxx xxxx (Budapest), or

for cellular phone: 06 + 2/3/7 + 0 + xxx xxxx.

Money

The Hungarian currency is the forint (HUF).

1 EUR = 329 HUF, 1 USD = 286 HUF

You usually CANNOT pay in Euro or US dollars. You can exchange

money at the airport or train stations, but change as little as possible

there since exchange rates at these locations are bad. It is preferable

to use one of the many ATMs or cash points across the city.

Public Transport

Budapest has an excellent public transit system consisting of

subways, buses, trolleys, trams, and electric commuter trains called

HÉV. Tickets are available at all metro stations from automated

machines, and most stations also have cashiers at ticket windows.

As the machines aren’t always reliable, it is preferable to buy

tickets directly from the cashier. Tickets can also be bought at

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some newsstands, tram stops, and on some buses, but it is best to

purchase tickets at the metro station and keep a supply with you.

Tickets can be bought individually, discounted in books of 10, or in

the form of daily, weekly, or monthly passes. You need to validate

your ticket before starting your trip on the metro or immediately upon

boarding a bus, tram, trolley, or commuter train. Insert the ticket into

the machines at metro station entrances and in the red or yellow boxes

on trams, buses, and trolleys. The yellow boxes automatically stamp

the ticket, but you must pull the black lever on the red boxes towards

the ticket to punch it. Tickets are valid for 60 minutes after they have

been stamped or for 90 minutes on the night service. Passes and

tickets are checked by inspectors at random and you will be fi ned

HUF 8,000 on the spot if you cannot produce your pass or validated

ticket. If fi ned, get a receipt, as foreigners are sometimes overcharged.

Public transportation runs from 4:30 until 23:00 and is both regular

and frequent. Night trams and buses run on an abbreviated schedule.

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English Hungarian Pronounciation

Yes/No Igen/nem igen/nem

Thank you Köszönöm Kurssurnurm

Hello Jó napot Yow nopot

Goodbye Viszontlátásra Vissont-latashruh

Please Kérem szépen Kherem sehpen

Do you speak English? Beszél angolul? Bessayl ungolool?

I can’t speak Hungarian Nem beszélek magyarul Nem besseylek mud-yarool

Entrance Bejárat Beh-yarut

Exit Kijárat Ki-yarut

I’m sorry Elnézést Ellnezeysht

Toilet WC Vaytsay

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Bio

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Julia BUXTON

Professor of Comparative Politics, School of Public

Policy, Central European University

Julia is a specialist on South America and an expert on

Venezuela, receiving her PhD from the LSE, where she also

studied for her MA (Distinction) in comparative politics.

Her current research focuses on the drugs and development

nexus and the development impacts of counter narcotics programs. Her publications

on drugs include Drug Crop Production, Poverty and Development (OSF 2016);

Drugs and Development: The Great Disconnect (with T. Bingham) and The Rise

and Challenge of Dark Net Drug Markets (both January 2015, Global Drug Policy

Observatory, University of Swansea); The Politics of Drugs, (ed., 2010, Routledge);

“Opportunity Lost: Alternative Development in Drug Control” in J. Tokatlian (ed.) Old

Wars: New Thinking (2010, Libros Zorazal); “A History of Drug Control” in P. Keefer

and N. Loayza (eds) Innocent Bystanders (2010, World Bank Publications); “The UK

drug problem in global perspective,” Soundings (2009); “The Historical Foundations

of the Narcotic Drug Control Regime” (World Bank Policy Research Working Paper

4553/2008) and The Political Economy of Narcotic Drugs (2006).

PARTICIPANTS

Judith ALDRIDGE

University of Manchester | United Kingdom

Judith is senior lecturer in criminology in the School of Law at

the University of Manchester. Her research is focused on drug

markets, policy and use. Over the last fi ve years she has pioneered

research in the area of virtual drug markets, culminating in the

fi rst publication connected to drug sales on Silk Road, the fi rst

and best-known drug cryptomarket. Research established earlier in her career had a

particular focus on recreational drug use among adolescents and adults, culminating in

the development of the normalization thesis as applied to adolescent recreational drug

use. A substantial and extended theoretical and conceptual response to normalization

critics was published in Illegal Leisure Revisited (2011). With Manchester colleagues,

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sJudith also conducted the fi rst ever “in situ” academic study of dance drug use in

clubs (published in the book Dancing on Drugs), innovating the methodology for

research of this kind focused on both indoor venues and outdoor festivals, now taking

place over the globe. She acts in advisory/expert capacity to agencies including the

Pompidou Group of the Council of Europe, the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs

and Drug Abuse (EMCDDA) and the European Commission. As George Soros Visiting

Chair, Judit will be teaching at the CEU’s School of Public Policy in fall 2017.

Juliana BORGES

Women of the Workers’ Party | Brazil

Juliana is the municipal secretary for Women of the Workers’

Party and a consultant. She is currently fi nalizing a book on

black feminism and imprisonment. She is also an anthropologist

at the Fundação Escola de Sociologia e Política de São Paulo,

where she studied sociology and politics. She graduated with a

degree in classical literature from the Universidade de São Paulo. She is a columnist

at Justifi cando, Blog da Boitempo, Perseu Abramo Foundation and Forum Magazine.

In 2017, Juliana worked as a policy articulator at the Black Initiative for a New Policy

on Drugs. Prior to this, she spent two years as an advisor to the Secretariat of the

Government of the Mayor of São Paulo Fernando Haddad. In 2013, she was deputy

secretary of the Municipal Department of Policies for Women of the City of São Paulo.

Caroline BUHSE

Washington Offi ce on Latin America | United States

Caroline provides research, advocacy, and support work to

WOLA’s Drug Policy and the Andes program. She assists with

WOLA’s participation in a regional project on women, drug

policy, and incarceration, and with WOLA’s work as part of the

Research Consortium on Drugs and the Law (CEDD). Caroline

helped draft, edit and publish Global Innovative Approaches, a series of short policy

briefs on alternatives to incarceration as well as health and social programs for

individuals involved in problematic drug use or the drug trade. She has also aided in

planning informal drug policy dialogues that bring together offi cials, academics, and

civil society members to discuss the failed drug war. She graduated with honors from

Washington University in St. Louis with a degree in Latin American studies, Spanish,

and history. Prior to joining WOLA, Caroline was a research assistant for Dr. Kedron

Thomas and also served as WOLA’s Drug Policy intern.

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Thailand Institute of Justice (TIJ) | Thailand

Chontit started her career as legal affairs offi cer at the Ministry

of Justice of Thailand. Her early career mainly focused on

issues related to crime prevention and criminal justice,

particularly in the fi eld of corrections. Currently, she leads a

program which promotes gender-sensitive treatment of female

prisoners in Southeast Asia and beyond. As part of her work, Chontit supervises and

is involved in several research projects on women prisoners and the implementation

of the UN Bangkok Rules in the ASEAN region, the national survey of female inmates

in Thailand, and on the pathways to imprisonment of female and male prisoners in

Thailand as well as Thai female prisoners convicted of drug traffi cking in Cambodia.

She also contributed to developing curriculum for the annual training program on the

“Management of Women Prisoners in the ASEAN Region” which was launched by

the TIJ in 2016. Chontit graduated with a Master of Law from the University of Kent

and a Master of Science in social policy and social research from the University of

Southampton, UK.

Arinta DEA DINI SINGGI

LBH Masyarakat | Indonesia

Arinta is a gender analyst at LBH Masyarakat (Community Legal

Aid Institute), a leading legal aid organization in Indonesia

that provides free legal assistance for the poor and victims

of human rights abuses. Arinta spearheads LBH Masyarakat’s

advocacy on women’s rights that intersect with drug policy

and the death penalty and manages the organization’s projects on those issues. In

2015, she documented more than 500 verdicts on drug offences for personal use

in nine district courts surrounding Jakarta. In 2016, she analyzed Indonesia’s laws

and drugs policies related to young people who use drugs. At the moment, she is

undertaking research projects on women drug offenders and women on death row. In

addition to research work, Arinta is also involved in the organization’s capital defense

work where she is assisting Merri Utami, a woman drug mule facing execution. She

is contributing one chapter on Merri Utami’s case in a book entitled Unfair Trial:

Analysis on Death Penalty Cases in Indonesia.

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sNiamh EASTWOOD

Release | United Kingdom

Niamh is a non-practicing barrister who started at Release

in 2002 as a legal advisor. She has extensive experience of

service delivery, policy strategy, fundraising and operational

development. Having worked in drug policy for the last ten years,

Niamh is passionate about drug policy reform and believes that

the most vulnerable in society are disproportionately impacted upon by the current drug

laws. Niamh has coauthored Release’s two most recent policy papers, “The Numbers in

Black And White: Ethnic Disparities in the Policing and Prosecution of Drug Offences

in England and Wales” and “A Quiet Revolution: Drug Decriminalisation Policies in

Practice across the Globe”. Niamh is also responsible for drafting many of Release’s

briefi ngs for parliamentarians and policy makers. She is an associate of the London

School of Economics IDEAS International Drug Policy Project, a member of the Expert

Steering Group for the Global Drug Survey, a visiting lecturer at the Centre for Public

Health, Liverpool John Moores University, and a trustee of Stop Watch.

Jennifer FLEETWOOD

Goldsmiths College London | United Kingdom

Jennifer joined Goldsmiths College, University of London in June

2017. Before that, she worked at the University of Leicester and

the University of Kent. Her PhD (University of Edinburgh) was

on women in the international cocaine trade and was published

by Palgrave in 2014. Her background is in sociology and her

interests in gender led to researching women’s offending, as drug mules and also as

drug dealers. Jennifer’s other main research interests are feminist criminology, narrative

criminology, and qualitative research methods, especially ethnography.

Louisa GILBERT

Columbia University | United States

Louisa is an associate professor of social work at Columbia

University and has served as the co-director of the Social

Intervention Group since 1999 and the co-director of the

Global Health Research Center of Central Asia since 2007. Her

research has focused on advancing a better understanding of

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s the syndemic mechanisms linking gender-based violence (GBV) to substance misuse

and HIV, and on developing and testing interventions that address these syndemic

mechanisms among women who use drugs. She has led randomized controlled trials

that have produced three evidence-based interventions that are designed to reduce

GBV and HIV risks among substance-using women, which have been disseminated

nationally and globally. Her current work is focused on conducting implementation

research on WINGS, a computerized screening, brief intervention, and referral to

treatment (SBIRT) service model that has been shown to be effective in identifying

and reducing GBV and promoting HIV testing and linkage to treatment among

different populations of women who use drugs in the US, Central Asia, and India.

Louisa has co-authored over 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals from her research.

Fiona GILBERTSON

Recovering Justice | United Kingdom

Fiona is a cofounder of Recovering Justice and community

advisor to Chief Constable Mike Barton of the Durham PCC.

She is on the board of Scot-pep, a sex work rights organization

in Scotland. She has 25 years of experience in advocacy on

issues related to HIV and sex work. She believes that the

fundamental way to tackle stigma and discrimination is through policy change. Fiona

was awarded a Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship last year to study criminal

justice diversion schemes for people with substance use issues.

Maria GORETTI ANE

International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC) | Ghana

Maria serves as the focal point for IDPC in Africa and is a lawyer

having previously worked with Adawudu Law Consultancy, now

Lord & Lords Legal Practitioners based in Accra. She has

special interests in human rights and drug policy reforms and

has been involved in high-level engagements and advocacy on

drug use and the law both locally and internationally. She is an author of a number of

articles on drug use and drug policy reform in Africa. Maria is a strong advocate for

drug policy that is grounded in human rights and public health in the region.

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sNayeli URQUIZA HAAS

Kent Law School | United Kingdom

Nayeli’s research contests traditional concepts and practices

in criminal law through an interdisciplinary analysis of

vulnerability and gender in the case study of women who act as

drug mules. Drawing on feminist legal studies and critical theory,

she argues that vulnerability is not always a straightforward

foundation for justice, because legal and political institutions recognize vulnerability

only as something exceptional, and thus, opposite to legal personality. Her case study

also suggests, through an extensive analysis of sentencing appeals, that in addition to

gendered assumptions, the weight of the drug is signifi cant in determining whether

a person will be considered a drug mule or not. Nayeli is interested in the fi eld of

regulatory theory, post colonialism, feminist studies, criminal justice, and drug policy.

Julie HANNAH

International Centre on Human Rights and Drug Policy |

United Kingdom

Julie is the director of the International Centre on Human

Rights and Drug Policy, where she has been leading high

impact research and teaching projects since 2012. Her work

has been internationally recognized in the areas of human

rights and drug control, which focuses on human rights institutions and drug policy,

the use of force in the context of counter narcotics operations, and the right to health.

She is a member of the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex where she

is also an advisor to the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health, supporting

the mandate’s thematic research and engagement with civil society. Julie has spent

more than ten years leading humanitarian and human rights projects for marginalized

communities, particularly those in Southeast Asia.

Mo HUME

University of Glasgow | United Kingdom

Mo is a senior lecturer in politics at the University of Glasgow. Her research focuses

on how multiple and overlapping forms of violence are perceived by those who live in

post-confl ict contexts. She has applied the insights from feminist theory and practice

for understanding violent processes and women’s responses to these. This involves

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s detailed research on violence against women, as well as a situated exploration of the

wider gendered politics of violence. Mo has carried out extensive fi eldwork in Central

America, particularly El Salvador where she also spent several years as a development

worker in a local women’s organization.

Yatie JONET

Global Fund Malaysia | Malaysia

Yatie is a former drug user and has been in recovery since

2009. She is a former outreach worker for the Needle Syringes

Exchange Program (NSEP), and was later appointed as NSEP

program manager. She is now a focal point for people who

use drugs (PWID) in Malaysia, and is working on creating an

enabling environment for PWIDs to have access to Antiretroviral Treatment and Opioid

Substitution Treatment. She participates in the regional meeting of the International

Drug Policy Consortium and Alliance, and coordinates drug and health forums with

key stakeholders to remove legal barriers to access to treatment in Malaysia. As a

focal point for women who use drugs (WUDs), Yatie coordinates several focus group

discussions on gender-based violence for post incarcerated WUDs. She has been

advocating for policy change together with other stakeholders such as the Royal Police

of Malaysia, the National Anti-drugs Agency, and the Ministry of Health in Malaysia.

Iga KENDER-JEZIORSKA

Corvinus University | Hungary

Iga began working in the drug policy and harm reduction fi eld

back in 2011, when she joined the Students’ Drug Policy

Initiative. Within SDPI, she attended numerous conferences

and seminars on topics related to drugs, and created and

implemented two educational and harm reduction projects for

students. She graduated with an MA in social prevention and rehabilitation from the

University of Warsaw in 2013, and then earned an MSc from the Corvinus University

of Budapest, where she conducted research on how law enforcement infl uences the

functioning of harm reduction services. Soon after, she moved to the Netherlands

to continue her work for the Drugtext Foundation, where she was managing the

international library on substance use. She came back to Budapest in August 2016

to start her PhD at Corvinus University. In her research, Iga focuses on drug policies

from the perspective of recreational drug use, mainly among youth. She also founded

SDPI Hungary, which is part of the Youth Organisations for Drug Action network.

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sGloria LAI

International Drug Policy Consortium | Thailand

Gloria leads the International Drug Policy Consortium’s Asia

regional program, and is based in Bangkok. Prior to this role,

she worked as a senior policy advisor in the Illicit Drugs Section,

Australian Government Attorney-General’s Department and the

Law Enforcement Strategy Division, Australian Customs and

Border Protection Service. Gloria holds undergraduate degrees in Law and Asian

Studies (Chinese), and a double master’s degree in public policy and development

studies from the CEU in Budapest and the Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus

University in The Hague.

Fiona MACAULAY

University of Bradford | United Kingdom

Fiona is senior lecturer in the Division of Peace Studies and

International Development at the University of Bradford. She

was previously responsible for the Brazil desk at Amnesty

International, and then became a research fellow at the Centre

for Brazilian Studies, University of Oxford, from which she

holds a BA Hons (modern languages), an MPhil (Latin American studies), and a DPhil

(politics). She has two principal research interests in Brazil and Latin America: (1)

gender policies and politics, and (2) criminal justice reform and human rights. In both

cases she is interested in the interface between organized civil society and the state,

and the way in which specifi c political institutions and governance arrangements

(political parties, decentralization) impinge on the capacity of civil society groups to

affect policy and reform the state. Fiona has published widely on these topics and

is currently working on a book on the challenges of reforming the Brazilian prisons

system, which she has researched for the last 20 years.

Kasia MALINOWSKA

Open Society Foundations (OSF) | United States

Kasia is the founding director of OSF’s Global Drug Policy

Program and previously led OSF’s International Harm

Reduction Development Program. Prior to OSF, Kasia worked

for the UN Development Program in New York and Warsaw,

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s leading capacity building and drug and HIV policy reform in Central and Eastern

Europe and the former Soviet Union. She publishes regularly on drug policy as it

relates to women, social justice, health, human rights, civil society, and governance.

Her academic publications include works in the Lancet, the British Medical Journal,

and the International Journal of Drug Policy. Kasia wrote her doctoral dissertation on

“HIV among Drug Users in Poland: The Paradoxes of an Epidemic.” She co-authored

Poland’s fi rst National AIDS program; helped formulate policy at the Global Fund to

Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria; the WHO; and the Millennium Project Task

Force on HIV/AIDS, TB, and Malaria. Kasia holds an MSW from the University of

Pennsylvania and a DrPH from Columbia University.

Giavana MARGO

Eotvos Lorand University | Hungary

Giavana is an educator, academic and advocate in the sphere

of gender and drug policy. Currently, she is a lecturer in the

School of English and American Studies at Eotvos Lorand

University in Budapest. She holds a master’s degree in critical

gender studies from Central European University. Her research

focuses primarily on gender and drug policy within the Russian Federation. Having

worked for two prominent NGOs in the sphere of harm reduction, Giavana holds

diverse practical experience as well. While working with the E.V.A. Women’s Network

in Saint Petersburg, she participated in advocacy for women living with HIV, street

outreach, and a number of development and research projects. During her time

as a gender consultant for the Andrey Rylkov Foundation, Giavana gained further

experience in street outreach and completed a CEDAW shadow report on gender-

based discrimination towards women who use drugs in the Russian Federation. The

report was later approved by the CEDAW committee.

Dasha MATYUSHINA-OCHERET

Eurasian Harm Reduction Network | Lithuania

Dasha has an MPH in health systems management from the

Medical School of Liverpool University. She started working in

the fi eld of harm reduction and HIV prevention back in 1998

on an MSF-Holland project in Moscow. Her fi eld of expertise

includes HIV and drug policy advocacy and health systems

decision-making, management of community-based programs, and community

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ssystems strengthening in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. From 2010 to 2015

Dasha worked as deputy director for advocacy and communications at the Eurasian

Harm Reduction Network (EHRN), and now she is an EHRN policy reform advisor.

Bethany MEDLEY

Harm Reduction Coalition | United States

Bethany is the opioid program manager at Harm Reduction

Coalition in New York City where she helps coordinate the

overdose prevention program and advocates for drug user

health. She began her professional career in drug policy as

an intern for the Global Drug Policy Program at Open Society

Foundations (OSF). Bethany has co-authored several articles with Kasia Malinowska

on drug policy as it relates to women. She also helped develop an advocacy tool to

promote evidence-based care for pregnant women who use drugs for the International

Harm Reduction Development Program at OSF. Bethany holds a bachelor’s degree in

social work from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and a master’s degree

in social work with a concentration in policy practice and international social welfare

from Columbia University.

Pien METAAL

Transnational Institute (TNI) | The Netherlands

Pien is a researcher with TNI. She holds a Master of Arts

Degree in political science and international relations from

the University of Amsterdam. She has been a member of the

Transnational Institute’s Drugs and Democracy team since

2002, though her participation with the program dates further

back. She lived in Latin America for several years, spending most of that time in the

Andean region. During those years, she dedicated most of her time and energy to

research, development and implementation of drug policy, particularly in relation to

coca and cocaine, and worked with local and international experts and NGOs. Pien

has written numerous articles, and contributed to various books and publications on

drug policy in Latin America since 1996.

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s Marcela MUÑOZ

Mesa Regional de Organizaciones sociales de

Putumayo | Colombia

Marcela earned her bachelor’s degree in natural sciences

from the South-Colombian University and is now a Master’s

candidate in management of watersheds. Currently, she

oversees the implementation of the Plan for Substitution of

Crops of Illicit Use in Putamayo which forms a part of the implementation of the

Colombian peace accord. Marcela is also investigator at CESPAZ – Center of Studies

for Peace in Colombia.

Marie NOUGIER

International Drug Policy Consortium | United Kingdom

Since 2008, Marie has been responsible for the communica-

tions and publications work stream of IDPC, and also engages

in networking, civil society capacity building activities, and

policy advocacy engagement, in particular at the Commission

on Narcotic Drugs. Marie also supports IDPC’s activities in

Latin America, where she helps coordinate a project to reduce the incarceration rate

of women for drug offences. Her language skills in English, French, Spanish and

Portuguese have constituted a valuable asset for the development of a multilingual

centre of expertise at IDPC. Marie has a master’s degree in international law, human

rights and the law of armed confl icts. Before working at IDPC, she worked on

issues related to compulsory drug detention in South East Asia at the World Health

Organization, as well as immigration, racism and police brutality in Western Europe

at Amnesty International.

Lynn PALTROW

National Advocates for Pregnant Women | United

Kingdom

Lynn founded the National Advocates for Pregnant Women in

2001. She is a graduate of Cornell University and New York

University School of Law. She has worked on numerous cases

challenging restrictions on the right to choose abortion as well

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sas cases opposing the prosecution and punishment of pregnant women seeking to

continue their pregnancies to term. Lynn has served as a senior staff attorney at the

ACLU’s Reproductive Freedom Project, as director of special litigation at the Center

for Reproductive Law and Policy, and as vice president for public affairs for Planned

Parenthood of New York City. She is a Gemini and mother of twins.

Luciana POL

Center for Legal and Social Studies (CELS) | Argentina

Luciana is an Argentine sociologist from the University of

Buenos Aires. She specialized in statistical methods for

social sciences at the Institute of Economic Development.

Since 2003, she has worked at CELS, a prominent human

rights organization in Argentina. She worked as a researcher

and coordinator in the Institutional Violence and Public Safety Program, where

she conducted fi eldwork and studies on security policies, use of force and social

protests, drug policies, prisons and violence. At present, she is entirely dedicated to

international work as a senior fellow in security policy and human rights for the same

organization and has specialized in human rights & drug policy. Luciana is a member

of the board of the Vienna NGO Committee on Drugs and vice-chair of the NY NGO

Committee on Drugs.

Olga RYCHKOVA

Open Society Foundations (OSF) | United States

Olga is a program offi cer for the International Harm Reduction

Development Program, focusing on access to health and to

justice for women marginalized for their drug use. Prior to

joining OSF in June 2009, she worked at Mainline, a harm

reduction advocacy group in Amsterdam that works to protect

health and rights of people who use drugs, and promote better public health policies

for marginalized people. Olga holds a master’s degree in international development

from the University of Amsterdam, and has lived and worked in the Netherlands,

Germany, Kyrgyzstan, and Russia.

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s Rebecca SCHLEIFER

UN Development Program’s HIV, Health and

Development Group, Yale University’s Global Health

Justice Partnership | United States

Rebecca is an expert consultant with the UN Development

Program’s HIV, Health and Development Group and a visiting

fellow with Yale University’s Global Health Justice Partnership.

She previously worked at Human Rights Watch, conducting research to address health-

related and other human rights abuses of marginalized and criminalized populations,

people with disabilities and on the development of human rights-based drug control

policies. She has also worked with migrant farm workers in Florida and Washington,

litigating cases on wages, working conditions, and occupational health and safety. Her

most recent publications cover women’s rights and drug control; autonomy and legal

capacity of older persons; the right to health in prison; the use of condoms as evidence

of prostitution in the U.S.; and compulsory drug detention in China and South East

Asia. Rebecca has a bachelor’s degree from Harvard-Radcliffe College and a law degree

and a master’s degree in public health from the University of California, Berkeley.

Suzanne SHARKEY

Recovering Justice | United Kingdom

Suzanne is co-founder of Recovering Justice, the fi rst

organization in the UK set up by people in recovery from

problematic substance use to focus primarily on drug reform

in the UK. Recovering Justice works towards a policy position

which treats people with compassion and understanding rather

than punishment. They aim to bring people with experience of drug use together

with drug policy reform organizations to create a voice for policy change. Suzanne

is also vice chair and spokesperson for Law Enforcement Against Prohibition UK

(LEAP). UK LEAP is made up of current and former members of the law enforcement

and criminal justice communities who are speaking out about the failures of existing

drug policies and raise awareness to the failed, dangerous and expensive pursuit of

punitive drug policies. LEAP advocates reform and an evidence-based policy with

a public health focus including decriminalization and nuanced regulatory models

for all drugs. Suzanne was a police offi cer for fi ve years working in a specialized

crime unit and as an undercover operative. Suzanne is in long-term recovery from

problematic substance use. Her testimony has been published in the latest Global

Commission report on drug policy 2016.

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sJane SLATER

Transform | United Kingdom

Jane leads the groundbreaking “Anyone’s Child: Families for

Safer Drug Control” campaign and engineered the international

campaign in advance of the UNGASS 2016. Before joining

Transform in 2007, Jane worked for various charities and

public sector bodies, including Gemini.org and the British Red

Cross. She graduated with a degree in geography from the University of Manchester

and has subsequently completed an MSc in international development at Bath

University. Her master’s degree focused on the urgent need for the international

development community to engage with drug policy reform.

Lucia SOBEKOVÁ

Central European University | Hungary

Lucia is a co-organizer of this workshop together with

Julia Buxton. During the last year, Lucia has worked as

Julia’s teaching and research assistant, exploring salient

debates and content for teaching in areas of drug policy,

gender, and security. She holds a master’s degree in public

administration from CEU’s School of Public Policy. During her studies, Lucia was a

part of a graduate applied policy project that drew on the International Crisis Group’s

experience in confl ict prevention. She continued her involvement with Crisis Group

as an independent consultant on drug policies in the Andean region and drafted the

organization’s submission for the UNGASS 2016.

Claudia STOICESCU

Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, University of Oxford |

United Kingdom

Claudia is a doctoral researcher at Oxford University’s

Centre for Evidence-Based Intervention, where she acts as

principal investigator for the Perempuan Bersuara study

exploring correlates of HIV risk among 700+ women who

inject drugs, and co-investigator for a peer-driven intervention study on hepatitis C/

HIV co-infection among people who inject drugs in Indonesia. Claudia has worked

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s with Harm Reduction International as a research analyst since 2009, where she

coordinated the 2012 Global State of Harm Reduction report, and led on HRI’s

research and advocacy work in Asia. She has consulted for a diverse range of national

and international organizations, including UNAIDS, World Health Organization,

Open Society Foundations, and the Indonesian National AIDS Commission. Claudia

obtained her MSc in social intervention from Oxford University and her BA Hons. in

political science and professional writing from York University.

Coletta YOUNGERS

Washington Offi ce on Latin America | United States

Coletta is a senior fellow and consultant with WOLA’s drug

policy reform project, and the lead coordinator of a project

on women, drug policy and incarceration. She participates on

behalf of WOLA in the Research Consortium on Drugs and the

Law (CEDD) and has extensive experience in coordinating drug

policy dialogues and research exchange as well as the development and dissemination

of high-quality and internationally respected publications. She is also the author of

the books, Violencia Política y Sociedad Civil en el Perú (2003) on the Peruvian

human rights movement, and Thirty Years of Advocacy for Human Rights, Democracy

and Social Justice (2006), on the history of WOLA, and is co-editor of Drugs and

Democracy in Latin America: The Impact of U.S. Policy. In addition to her work

at WOLA, she is a senior associate with the International Drug Policy Consortium

(IDPC).

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sFACILITATORS

Graham HUGHES

Biggerplate.com | United Kingdom

Graham is a specialist trainer and facilitator using mind map-

ping to enable individuals, teams and organizations assimilate

and understand complex information and communicate more

effectively about it. Graham has been an international busi-

ness consultant for over 25 years working with multi-national

organizations, enabling cross borders collaboration, leading learning and develop-

ment programs and facilitating multi-cultural change programs.

Ruth WALKER

Biggerplate.com | United Kingdom

Ruth is a community & marketing manager and trainer at

Biggerplate, working with a multitude of diverse Biggerplate

members across the world. She helps members to maximize

the benefi ts of mind mapping in numerous contexts and

facilitates sharing of mind mapping best practices both in the

UK and in Europe. Ruth is British and speaks French. Following her MA in interpreting

and translation, she worked briefl y in Brussels with the European Parliament in the

Interpreting Unit.

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s STUDENT ASSISTANTS

Mai Hla AYE

Central European University | Hungary

Mai is from Myanmar and she is ethnically Chin. Currently,

she is a second year MPA student at CEU’s School of Public

Policy. Recently, she developed a strong interest in drug issues

especially in the harm reduction approach. Before coming to

Budapest, she worked with civil society organizations, both

local and international organizations in Myanmar for around seven years on natural

resource governance issues.

Jasmin GAMEZ

Central European University | Hungary

Jasmin is a second year MPA student focusing on media

and drug reform. She is originally from California and is the

daughter of two Mexican immigrants. Her past experience

includes working as a teacher in Cairo, a case manager and

program coordinator to marginalized communities such as

immigrants, individuals with a substance dependency and with a history of trauma.

She spent this summer in Cambodia interning at Anjali House as a fundraising intern

and making media advocacy videos. This year she will be working on a project for the

Global Drugs Policy Observatory.

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sSPP GLOBAL POLICY ACADEMY STAFF

Bernhard KNOLL-TUDOR

Director

Prior to his appointment at CEU, Bernhard worked for the

OSCE, an international organization devoted to ”hard” security

as well as to human rights diplomacy. He was involved in

policy design and public relations, both at the level of fi eld

missions (Sarajevo, 1999–2000; Prishtina, 2000–02), and at

the OSCE Offi ce for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (Warsaw, 2006–

12). He has held positions at the European Union Monitoring Mission (deputy head,

Political and Information Division, Bosnia & Herzegovina, 1998); the United Nations

Administration Mission in Kosovo (acting Temporary Media Commissioner, 2003);

and with the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Political Directorate, desk offi cer for

EU accession countries, 2005–06). Bernhard earned a master in law at the University

of Vienna and an MA in international relations and economics at Johns Hopkins/SAIS

with a focus on IR theory (Bologna and Washington, DC). He obtained his PhD from

the European University Institute (Florence, Italy), and is the author of Legal Status

of Territories Subject to Administration of International Organisations (Cambridge

University Press, 2008). He has published widely on human rights protection in post-

confl ict situations in leading academic journals and currently teaches a two-credit

elective course on public international law at SPP.

Tanja K. MANNERS

Senior Program Manager

Tanja has spent the past decade working in education both in

front of the classroom and behind the scenes, teaching mathe-

matics in Micronesia and Austria and working in administration

at the Institute of Education, University College London,

and King’s College London. She has a degree in applied

mathematics from Brown University and a master’s degree in comparative education

from the Institute of Education of the University of London. She moved to Hungary in

summer 2015 after spending a year as an education consultant in Shanghai.

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s Livia MARSCHALL

Program Coordinator

Livia joined CEU as a program assistant at the Roma Access

Programs Unit in 2014. She was appointed to her present

role as part-time program coordinator at SPP’s Global Policy

Academy in 2015. She holds an MA in cultural anthropology

and English language and literature from Eötvös Loránd

University (ELTE) in Budapest. At university, she conducted fi eldwork in a Hungarian

Roma community and has participated in various Roma advocacy projects. Livia is

also currently working as a curator at Gallery8–Roma Contemporary Art Space.

Ilona PUSKÁS

Events Manager and Program Assistant

As a devoted communications professional, Ilona liaises with

creative practitioners, the business sector, and the media. She

has a background in cultural project management. Involved

in contemporary fi ne art, she has been researching the role

of the curator in facilitating sustainability and solidarity in

curatorial praxis. She earned an MA in art and design management from the Moholy-

Nagy University of Art and Design and a BA in communication and media studies

(specialization in journalism) from Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) in Budapest.

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Open Society Foundations

Global Drug Policy Program (GDPP)

Since 2008, OSF’s Global Drug Policy Program has promoted drug

policies rooted in human rights, social justice, and public health. GDPP

works with policymakers and grassroots groups advocating to end the

injustices of the drug war, through research, dialogue, engagement, and

action. Through grant-making and programmatic efforts, GDPP supports

reforms that promote security, social justice, human rights, and public

health. In advance of UNGASS our civil society partners are working

with governments to promote real debate on drug law reform. We and

our partners research the impact of current drug policies, as well as

alternative approaches that have yielded more positive results.

CEU School of Public Policy,

Global Policy Academy

The Global Policy Academy (GPA) is part of CEU’s School of Public Policy

(SPP). GPA has fi ve years of experience running executive education

programs and hosted numerous courses, workshops and public events

that have focused on developing an innovative research agenda while

deepening cooperation with OSF and its networks. While the majority

are organized in Budapest, we have also run courses abroad including

in Vienna, Warsaw, Brussels, Athens, Sando, and Kuala Lumpur. GPA

has partnered with OSF geographical and thematic programs and units

numerous times, but other partners include the Natural Resource

Governance Institute, the Council of Europe, the Organization for

Security and Cooperation in Europe, the Regional Environmental Center

for Central and Eastern Europe, and Namati, amongst others. Its events

range from evening panel-discussions to two-week long training courses

with participant numbers ranging from 15 to 130.

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