Thi Hoang

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Thi is an analyst at the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime. She works on the Responsible & Ethical Business Coalition against Trafficking (RESPECT) Initiative, which serves as a platform for thought leaders, practitioners, and policy makers and to mobilise the business community as a strategic partner to tackle human trafficking. Thi also coordinates and manages the Modern Slavery Map, an interactive map for business of anti-human trafficking organisations, and is a research lead of the Tech Against Trafficking initiative, a coalition of global technology companies companies (Amazon, AT&T, BT, Microsoft, Nokia, Salesforce.org, Vodafone) and stakeholders aiming to help eradicate human trafficking using technology.

She is currently a member of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR)’s Standing Group on Organised Crime (SGOC) and an academic advisory board member of the Asian Education Network. 

Publications

• ​Hoang, T. (2020). ‘The dual law of technology in trafficking‘, Tech Against Trafficking.
• Hoang, T. (2020). ‘The pandemic’s impact on human trafficking‘, Delta 8.7.
• Bird, L., Hoang, T., Stanyard, J., Walker, S. and Haysom, S. (2020). ‘Transformative technologies: How digital is changing the landscape of organized crime’, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime.
• Hoang, T. (2020). ‘Mapping the landscape of technology tools used in the OSCE area and beyond to counter human trafficking – Research findings’. In ‘Leveraging innovation to fight trafficking in human beings: A comprehensive analysis of technology tools’. Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).
• Wagner, L. and Hoang, T. (2020). ‘Aggravating circumstances: How coronavirus impacts human trafficking’ (policy brief), Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime.
• ‘COVID and cybercrime’ (podcast). (2020). In ‘The impact: Coronavirus and Organized Crime’, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime.
• Hoang, T. (2019). Tech Against Trafficking Contribution to the UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery’s annual thematic report, ‘Current and emerging forms of slavery’. United Nations General Assembly.
• Darnton, H. & Hoang, T. (2019). ‘Accelerating the use of tech to combat human trafficking‘, Thomson Reuters Foundation News.
• Hoang, T. (2019). ‘When the peacekeepers are part of the problem‘, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime.

Invited talks

• Launch of ‘Leveraging innovation to fight trafficking in human beings: A comprehensive analysis of technology tools’, a joint publication by the OSCE and Tech Against Trafficking, June 2020.
• ‘Digital technologies and human trafficking’. TAIEX-Partnership Instrument Workshop on Next Steps in Tackling Trafficking in Human Beings, organized by the European Commission and Hong Kong Security Bureau, Hong Kong, December 2019.
• ‘Digital technologies and transnational organized crime – How tech has changed the ‘traditional’ organized crime landscape’. European Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference 2019, organized by the University of Oulu, November 2019.
• ‘Private sector and human trafficking – From common goals to collaborative actions’. Winter School on Transnational Organized Crime, organized by the European Consortium of Political Research and UNODC, Vienna, January 2019.