David Leone Suber
Biography
David Leone Suber lectures on organised crime at the Center for Criminology, and is a member of Border Criminologies. His main research focus is on people smuggling dynamics and border violence, but has also conducted research on the smuggling of natural resources, cultural heritage and narcotics.
David has extensive experience conducting ethnographic fieldwork on the criminalisation of migration in West Asia (Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Turkey), North Africa (Libya, Tunisia and Egypt) and the Balkan region (Greece, Bosnia Herzegovina and Serbia).
He regularly contributes as a freelance journalist on international media and has produced award-winning multimedia investigations and film documentaries. He often engages as a consultant for NGOs and law firms, and participates as a speaker and organiser of cross-sector and cross-disciplinary seminars at universities across the Mediterranean region.
At Oxford he teaches courses on research methods, organised crime, criminal justice, borders, migration and citizenship.