Mr Manuel Alejandro Vélez Salas
Deputy Research Director, Observatorio Nacional Ciudadano Researching security, illicit economies and state capacity against organized crime in Mexico since 2014.
About this speaker
Manuel Vélez is Deputy Research Director at the National Citizen Observatory, a leading think and do tank in Mexico. He is also a Research Council member from the Center for Anti-Counterfeiting and Product Protection at Michigan State University.
His career researching crime and security spans for a decade. He has researched a wide variety of topics such as extortion, kidnappings for ransom, homicides, forced disappearances, fuel theft, human trafficking, money laundering, counterfeiting, among many others.
