Camilo Pardo-Herrera is an international development scholar focusing on the political economy of development, corruption, political and criminal violence, and Latin America. His doctoral research analyzed criminal networks involved in land grabbing during the civil war in Colombia. He is a current member of TraCCC and has done extensive work on the political economy and crime connected to natural resource extraction in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. His personal research agenda links different forms of organized crime and political violence to development outcomes in the Latin American region. He brings an excellent combination of personal experience designing and implementing national level policy to address organized crime and corruption, a profound commitment for evidence-based policy analysis and design, and strong analytical and methodological capacities to pose and answer complex questions.
He has over 15 years of experience working on natural resource management, human rights issues, and post-conflict reconstruction in the Latin American region. He has done so for national governments, the civil society, academia, and international organizations before and while attending graduate school. He finished his PhD in Public Policy at George Mason University and a Masters degree in Democracy and Democratization from the University College London thanks to a Chevening scholarship awarded by the United Kingdom’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. He has presented his research––among other places––at the World Bank, the Organization of American States, and the United Nations. He currently teaches the courses on Transnational Security, International Organized Crime and Security in the Americas at the Elliot School of Policy and Government at George Washington University and consults for the World Bank on natural resource management issues. Dr. Camilo Pardo
Camilo Pardo-Herrera is an international development scholar focusing on the political economy of development, corruption, political and criminal violence, and Latin America. His doctoral research analyzed criminal networks involved in land grabbing during the civil war in Colombia. He is a current member of TraCCC and has done extensive work on the political economy and crime connected to natural resource extraction in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. His personal research agenda links different forms of organized crime and political violence to development outcomes in the Latin American region. He brings an excellent combination of personal experience designing and implementing national level policy to address organized crime and corruption, a profound commitment for evidence-based policy analysis and design, and strong analytical and methodological capacities to pose and answer complex questions.
He has over 15 years of experience working on natural resource management, human rights issues, and post-conflict reconstruction in the Latin American region. He has done so for national governments, the civil society, academia, and international organizations before and while attending graduate school. He finished his PhD in Public Policy at George Mason University and a Masters degree in Democracy and Democratization from the University College London thanks to a Chevening scholarship awarded by the United Kingdom’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. He has presented his research––among other places––at the World Bank, the Organization of American States, and the United Nations. He currently teaches the courses on Transnational Security, International Organized Crime and Security in the Americas at the Elliot School of Policy and Government at George Washington University and consults for the World Bank on natural resource management issues.