Hai Luong
Research Fellow, The University of Queensland Cross-border crime, transnational organized crime in Asia, drug trafficking, migrant smuggling, harm reduction, policing and police training, and environmental crimes and biological threats.
About this speaker
Dr Hai Thanh Luong has a Bachelor of Law (Criminal Investigation) and has spent twenty years researching and teaching in police’s institutions across the mainland Southeast Asian region, particularly in Vietnam. As a member of the Asian Regional Law Enforcement Management Program (ARLEMP), funded by Australian Federal Police and hosted by Ministry of Public Security of Vietnam and RMIT Hanoi, he has contributed to build a comprehensive connection among law enforcement agencies across Asian countries to prevent and combat serious and transnational crimes since 2005.
In 2010, as one of the new emergent scholars for Australian Development Scholarship in non-traditional security threat’s fields, he was awarded a full scholarship to gain a Master in Transnational Crime Prevention at University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. In 2017 he gained a PhD (criminology) at the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University after examining the complicated structure and modus operandi of several transnational drug trafficking in the Golden Triangle across the borderland between Vietnam and Laos in his thesis.
Dr Hai is currently conducting his Research Fellow in Cyber Criminology at the School of Social Science, the University of Queensland. Additionally, he is a senior research and chair of the Asian Drug Crime Research Committee at the Institute for Asian Crime and Security (IACS), the U.S while holding an Associate Research Fellow at the Social and Global Studies Centre, RMIT University.
His interests include cybercrime, policing in cybercrime/cybersecurity, drug trafficking, migrant smuggling, human trafficking, policing and police training, and environmental crimes and biological threats. His latest book ‘Transnational Drug Trafficking across the Vietnam and Laos Border’ was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2019. He has also published several papers in various academic journals (Asian Survey; Journal of Crime and Justice; International Journal of Cyber Criminology; International Journal of Drug Policy; Policing and Society; International Journal of Crime, Justice and Social Democracy; and Trends in Organized Crime, among others).
