Martin Jelsma

Martin Jelsma (1959) is a political scientist who has specialised in Latin America and international drugs policy. In 2005, he received the Alfred R. Lindesmith Award for Achievement in the Field of Scholarship, which stated that Jelsma "is increasingly recognized as one of, if not the, outstanding strategists in terms of how international institutions deal with drugs and drug policy.... Read more...

John Walsh

John Walsh, Senior Associate, directs WOLA’s work on the Andes related to strengthening the rule of law, promoting respect for human rights, and bolstering democratic institutions. Previously, Mr. Walsh served as director of research at Drug Strategies, a policy research group that builds support for more pragmatic and effective approaches to U.S. drug problems (1995-2003). He also worked on the... Read more...

Pien Metaal

Pien Metaal is a researcher with TNI. She holds a Master of Arts Degree in Political Science and International Relations from University of Amsterdam. She has been a member of the Transnational Institute's Drugs and Democracy team since 2002, though her participation with the team dates further back. She lived in Latin America for seven years, spending most of that time in Bolivia. During ... Read more...

Coletta Youngers

Coletta Youngers, WOLA Senior Fellow with the International Drug Policy Consortium, is an analyst of international drug policy, human rights and political developments in the Andean Region of South America and of U.S. foreign policy toward the Andes. She is co-editor of Drugs and Democracy in Latin America: The Impact of U.S. Policy (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2005). Coletta was the Director of ... Read more...

Kristel Mucino

Kristel Mucino is the communications coordinator for the TNI/WOLA Drug Law Reform Project. Previously, she served as a PR consultant for human rights organizations and advertising agencies. Ms. Mucino was a reporter for a national Hispanic TV network, V-Me, for which she covered the 2008 UN General Assembly and the 2008 U.S. presidential election. She has done freelancing for BBC-Mundo, and publis... Read more...

Amira Armenta

Amira Armenta (Colombia/Netherlands) has a degree in Latin American history from the Université de Jussieu (Paris). Read more...

Tom Blickman

Tom Blickman (1957) is an independant researcher and journalist, based in Amsterdam. Before coming to TNI he was active in the squatters and solidarity movements in Amsterdam. Now he is a senior researcher at TNI's Drugs Democracy Programme, specializing in International Drug Control Policy, Drug Markets, Money Laundering and Organised Crime. Read more...

Ernestien Jensema

Ernestien Jensema (1971) is a social anthropologist who researches and analyses the UN drug control system, Dutch drug policy. She is also involved in the Drugs and Democracy Programme’s Asia project. Read more...