Hai Thanh Luong

Dr Hai Thanh Luong is a lecturer in criminology at the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith University. He is also a senior researcher and chair of the Asian Drug Crime Research Committee at the Institute for Asian Crime and Security (IACS) in the U.S. Dr Luong has a Bachelor of Law (Criminal Investigation) and has spent twenty years researching and teaching in police institutions across the mainland Southeast Asian region, particularly in Vietnam. As a member of the Asian Regional Law Enforcement Management Program (ARLEMP), funded by the Australian Federal Police and hosted by the Ministry of Public Security of Vietnam and RMIT Hanoi, he contributed to building a comprehensive connection among law enforcement agencies, policymakers, and academia across Asian countries to prevent and combat serious and transnational crimes since 2005. Recently, he presented and worked closely with many international and regional organisations, including the Australia-Mekong Partnership and the U.S.-Mekong Dialogue against Transnational Crimes, the UNODC Regional Office for Southeast Asia and the Pacific (Bangkok, Thailand), ASEANPOL, and AFP. In 2020, he was awarded the Young Asian Criminologists Award from the Asian Criminological Society (ASC).