Romain Le Cour Grandmaison is the Director of the Haiti and Caribbean Observatory at the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC). His work focuses on Criminal Organizations and Governance, State and Violence, and Public Security. Romain holds a PhD. in Political Science from the Sorbonne University. He has been a Research and Visiting Fellow at Columbia University; at the University of California, San Diego (USMEX Center); and at the Universidad Ibero in Mexico City.