FRANK G. MADSEN

Dr. Frank G. Madsen is the assistant director of Von Hügel Institute at Saint Edmund’s College of Cambridge University.
He is a member of the Council of the Centre for the Study of Post-Secularism (CSPS) at “Tor Vergata” University, Rome, Italy, and a Scientific Advisor at the Pontificia Universitas Gregoriana, Rome, Italy.

Dr Madsen was awarded his Doctorate by Cambridge University (thesis: International Monetary Flows of Non-Declared Origin). He earned his Master’s degree in International Relations in Paris in the Centre d’Etudes Diplomatiques et Stratégiques.

His main recent publications include:
- “International Organization and Crime, and Corruption” in Robert A. Denemark (ed.),
The International Studies Compendium Project (Oxford and New York: Blackwells, forthcoming; including online publishing).
- Transnational Organised Crime (2009). New York & London: Routledge.
-“Organized Crime and Narcotics’ (2007) in Thomas G. Weiss and Sam Daws (eds), The Oxford Handbook of the United Nations. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Dr Madsen has lectured extensively in particular at the Collège Interarmées de Défense, Ecole Militaire, Paris, France (Crisis Management (1998) and Business Intelligence (2000)), and also elsewhere, e.g. in 2001, in Moscow, the Russian Federation (Counterfeit Pharmaceuticals), and in 2007, at the XVII Economic Forum, at Krynica, Poland, Transborder Trade as well as at a number of conferences hosted by Cambridge University and other universities. Furthermore, he has lectured on terrorism (in particular the French left-wing terrorists) at various university colloquia, corporate, and industry-wide seminars in the USA.

He has held visiting researchships at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at Cambridge University (3 years) and at Georgetown University Law Center, Washington D.C., USA (1 year); and advised the Commission of the European Union, External Relations Directorate-General, FLEGT (Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade) on legal countermeasures against the financial crimes involved in the illegal logging, in particular of hardwood forests.

1983 – 2001 he was Director of Corporate Security of Bristol-Myers Squibb, one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, and prior to that, 1978-1983, head of criminal intelligence and liaison officer at Interpol headquarters, then at Saint Cloud, France. His present research interests are centred on the issue of “corruption and its influence on social justice.”