Thi Hoang

Thi is the Managing Editor for the Journal of Illicit Economies and Development (JIED) and 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. (2021). ‘Combating human trafficking: Trends and gaps in the corporate partnership landscape’, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime.
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

‘Human trafficking in a pandemic context - Utilisation of tech tools as a mitigation strategy?’ Together Against Human Trafficking: Human Trafficking in Europe and Its Challenges for Romania 2020 Conference, organized by MEP Ramona Strugariu (Renew Europe), in partnership with the Romanian Network of NGOs against Trafficking in Persons, the European Center for Legal Education and Research, and Freedom House Romania, online December 2020.
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.