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Tuesday Reitano is the Head of the Global Initiative Secretariat and runs the Geneva office. She is also the Chief Editor of all the Global Initiative publications, including the Analyzing Organized Crime blog and the author of many of its publications. Tuesday has been working to bring the Global Initiative to fruition since 2012.
Previous to working full-time for the Global Initiative, Tuesday was an Associate Director in a dynamic global consulting company, STATT, working on issues of governance, security sector reform and aid effectiveness for fragile and transition states. She has a specialized focus in organized crime, and engaging both at the national and community level in seeking improved responses to mitigate the impact on human security and the rule of law. She provides both substantive expertise and programme management on a range of projects, including, among others, leading an assessment of the EU’s approach to countering terrorism and organized crime in the Sahel; a study of the impact of organised crime on governance in West Africa, funded by the National Endowment for Democracy; the design of funding instruments to support the development transition for Somaliland, and research with refugee communities from Syria in Lebanon.
Tuesday has twelve years of experience as a policy specialist in the UN System, including with the UN Development Programme, the UN Development Group and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, where she was the principal drafter of UNODC’s Thematic Programme on TOC. She is a Senior Research Associate at the Pretoria based Institute for Security Studies.
She has an MBA from McGill University, a Masters in Public Administration from New York University, and an MsC in International Development, Conflict and Security from University of Leicester’s Department for Criminology in the UK. Tuesday is currently based in Beirut.
