Falko Ernst Senior Analyst, Mexico Please submit all media inquiries to [email protected] or call +57 60 1 256 5769 ext 101 or +32 (0) 2 536 00 71 Crisis Group Role Falko joined Crisis Group in July 2018 as Senior Analyst for Mexico. He is responsible for conducting research on the country’s lethal conflict and the challenges the incoming president faces, particularly as concerns the country’s many regional conflict settings and intra-institutional realities that underpin corruption and collusion by state actors. He provides field-based insights and recommendations, through reports and contributions to media, as to how these should be factored to make for sound security policy. Areas of Expertise Non-state armed groups Organised crime Criminal governance Corruption Latin America Mexico Professional Background Falko has worked on criminal governance, organised crime-state-collusion, and new forms of conflict in Mexico and Latin America since 2010. As a PhD researcher in sociology at the University of Essex (UK), he lived in organised crime-controlled communities in Mexico. He went on to become a freelance researcher and author based in Mexico City, collaborating with Crisis Group, the Ford Foundation, the London School of Economics, and national and international media. Prior to this, he worked as a research assistant in Germany’s federal parliament in Berlin, and completed a masters degree in Latin American area studies at the University of Passau, Germany. Latest Updates Event Recording 30 ноября 2023 Mexico: Women’s Rise in Organised Crime (Online Events, 30 November 2023) Commentary / Latin America & Caribbean 26 апреля 2022 On the Front Lines of the Hot Land: Mexico’s Incessant Conflict Commentary / Europe & Central Asia 04 марта 2022 The Ukraine War: A Global Crisis? Also available in Español Commentary / Latin America & Caribbean 07 октября 2020 Time to End the Lethal Limbo of the U.S.-Mexican Drug Wars Also available in Español Op-Ed / Latin America & Caribbean 25 февраля 2020 America's appetite for avocados is helping to fuel the Mexican cartels Q&A / Latin America & Caribbean 22 октября 2019 Picking Up the Pieces after Mexico’s Criminal Siege Also available in Español Our Journeys / Latin America & Caribbean 03 июня 2019 Mexico’s Hydra-headed Crime War Also available in Español Q&A / Latin America & Caribbean 01 февраля 2019 Mexico’s New Neutrality in the Venezuela Crisis Also available in Español Q&A / Latin America & Caribbean 30 ноября 2018 Mexico’s New President Squares Up to High Hopes for Peace Also available in Español Our Journeys / Latin America & Caribbean 17 октября 2018 The Life and Death of a Mexican Hitman Load more