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About the Contributors
feiting, artificial intelligence, and illicit trade, and is a frequent speaker on anticounterfeiting
technologies. In 2009, Mr. Picard and his company were selected as a World Economic Forum
Technology Pioneer. Since 2009, he has been a member of the World Economic Forum Global
Agenda Council on Illicit Trade, and is also a member of the Evian Group. Mr. Picard manages
the Web site illicittrade.org, a compilation of information on illicit trade and of the work of
the Global Agenda Council on Illicit Trade.
Celina B. Realuyo is an assistant professor of national security affairs in the Center for
Hemispheric Defense Studies at the National Defense University. Ms. Realuyo teaches
courses on U.S. national security, globalization, counterterrorism, and transnational criminal
organizations. She is an expert on geopolitical risks in the 21 st century, global supply chains,
international financial systems, terrorist financing, and money laundering. Ms. Realuyo served
as the director of counterterrorism finance programs at the State Department’s Office of the
Coordinator for Counterterrorism. Prior to returning to Washington, DC, Ms. Realuyo was a
private banker with Goldman Sachs in London. She began her career as a U.S. Foreign Service
Officer with overseas assignments in Madrid, Panama, and the U.S. Mission to the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization in Brussels, and served in the State Department’s Operations
Center, National Security Council’s White House Situation Room, and as special assistant
to the Secretary of State. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, International
Institute for Strategic Studies, Women in International Security, and Professional Risk Managers
International Association. Ms. Realuyo holds an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business
School, an M.A. in international relations from The Johns Hopkins University School of
Advanced International Studies, and a B.S. in foreign service from Georgetown University.
Louise Shelley is a professor in the School of Public Policy at George Mason University. She
founded and directs the Terrorism, Transnational Crime, and Corruption Center (TraCCC).
She is an expert on the relationship among terrorism, organized crime, and corruption as well
as human trafficking. Dr. Shelley’s research has focused primarily on the former Soviet Union.
She is the recipient of the Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Humanities, IREX,
Kennan Institute, and Fulbright Fellowships and received a MacArthur Grant to establish the
Russian Organized Crime Study Centers. She is the author most recently of Human Trafficking:
A Global Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2010), as well as 10 other books. She
has written numerous articles and book chapters on all aspects of transnational crime and
corruption. Dr. Shelley has run large-scale programs in the former Soviet Union on organized
crime and corruption for the last 15 years. She served on the Global Agenda Council on Illicit
Trade of the World Economic Forum and was the first cochair of its Council on Organized
Crime. Dr. Shelley holds an M.A. in criminology and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University
of Pennsylvania.
Admiral James G. Stavridis, USN, assumed duties as commander of U.S. European Command
and as Supreme Allied Commander Europe, in early summer 2009. He is a distinguished
graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy. A surface warfare officer, Admiral Stavridis commanded
the USS Barry (DDG 52) from 1993 to 1995. In 1998, he commanded Destroyer Squadron
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