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...

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...

Tom Kramer

Tom Kramer (1968) is a political scientist and with over 15-years of working experience on Burma and its border regions, which he has visited regularly since 1993. His work focuses on developing a better understanding of the drugs market in the region as a whole, the relationship between production and consumption, and alternative development (AD). Together with the Drugs and Democracy Pro... 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...