Alfred W.

McCoy

Born
in The United States
June 08, 1945

Website
https://history.wisc.edu/cv_am.pdf

Genre
Nonfiction, History, Politics

Dr Alfred W. McCoy is professor of SE Asian History at the U. of Wisconsin at Madison where he also
serves as director of the Center for SE Asian Studies, a federally-funded National Resource Center. He's
spent the past quarter-century writing about the politics & history of the opium trade. In addition to
publications, he serves as a correspondent for the Observatoire Geopolitique des Drogues in Paris & was
plenary speaker at their '92 conference in Paris sponsored by the European Community. In '93, he
presented a paper on the Mafia & the Asian heroin trade at the Conference in Honor of Giovanni Falcone
in Palermo, Sicily. In 3/96, he was the plenary speaker at the 7th International Conference on Drug Harm
Reduction in Hobart, Australia. He's served as expert witness & consultant to the Canadian Commission of
Inquiry into the Non-Medical use of Drugs, the Australian Royal Commission of Inquiry into Drugs, the
Minister of Administrative Services, Victoria State Parliament, & the Deputy Assistant Secretary of
Defense for Drug Enforcement Policy & Support in the Office of the US Secretary of Defense. Recently,
he worked as consultant & commentator for a tv documentary on the global heroin traffic produced by the
Australian Broadcasting Corporation, accompanying the crew to locations in Burma, Thailand, Vietnam &
Laos.