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Vanda Felbab-Brown is an American expert on internal[1] and international organized crime.[2] She is a senior fellow[3] with the center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence in the Foreign Policy program[4] at the Brookings Institution,[5] a Washington-based thinktank.[6]
In June 1999 Felbab-Brown obtained a B.A. in government from Harvard University. In February 2007 she completed a Ph.D. in political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[3][7]
In 2007 Felbab-Brown worked as assistant professor at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. In fall 2008 she became adjunct professor at the university.[8] In 2009 and again in 2011 she was asked to work as adjunct professor at the University of Delaware. In 2012 and 2013 she was guest lecturer at the School of Advanced Military Studies in Fort Leavenworth. From March 2012 until July 2013 she also was on the advisory board of the Modernizing Drug Law Enforcement Initiative. Since June 2013 she has been a member of the Economics of International Drug Strategy expert group which is organized by the London School of Economist's IDEAS.[7] Since March 2017 she is a senior fellow for foreign policy at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.[9] In addition, she is involved in a number of projects at the Institution. She is co-director of the project "Reconstituting Local Orders" as well as director of the "Improving Global Drug Policy: Comparative Perspectives and UNGASS 2016" project.[4]
