Dr. Hai Thanh Luong

Dr. Hai Thanh Luong is currently a Research Fellow in Cyber Criminology at the School of Social Science and collaborating with UQ Cyber Centre. Additionally, he is a member of the Global Initiative Network's Expert against Transnational Organized Crime (GI TOC) and also a senior researcher and chair of the Asian Drug Crime Research Committee at the Institute for Asian Crime and Security (IACS), the US, while holding an Associate Research Fellowship at the Social and Global Studies Centre, RMIT University. His interests include cybercrime, policing in cybercrime/cybersecurity, transnational crimes in Asia, environmental crimes, and biological threats. His latest book 'Transnational Drug Trafficking across the Vietnam and Laos Border' was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2019. He has also published several papers in various academic journals (Asian Survey; Journal of Crime and Justice; International Journal of Cyber Criminology; International Journal of Drug Policy; Policing and Society; International Journal of Crime, Justice and Social Democracy; and Trends in Organized Crime, among others). In 2020, he was awarded the Young Asian Criminologists from the Asian Criminological Society (ASC).