Georgios A. Antonopoulos is professor of criminology at Teesside University. He has been visiting scholar at a number of universities in the UK, Greece, Croatia and the Netherlands. He is an associate of the Cross-Border Crime Colloquium, editor-in-chief of the journal Trends in Organised Crime, and member of the editorial boards of the journals Global Crime, Journal of Financial Crime, Journal of Money Laundering Control, and the British Journal of Criminology. From 2010 to 2014 he was Chair of the North-east branch of the British Society of Criminology, and in 2014 he served as executive director of the International Association for the Study of Organised Crime (IASOC).
Georgios Papanicolaou is Reader in Criminology at Teesside University UK. He has studied Law and Penal Sciences at the University of Athens, and Criminology at the University of Edinburgh. His research and published work investigate the political economy of policing and the policing of illicit markets, particularly in a transnational context. Georgios is a member of the editorial board of the journal Trends in Organised Crime.
