Profile
Khalid Tinasti

Khalid Tinasti

Chargé d'enseignement Invité/ Visiting lecturer
MINT195 -International Drug Policy
Research Associate, Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding

Profile


Khalid Tinasti is the Director of the Global Commission on Drug Policy and serves as a Visiting Fellow at the International Center on Drug Policy Studies at the University of Shanghai (2020-22). Before joining the Global Commission’s Secretariat in 2013 as a Policy Analyst then as its Executive Secretary, he worked as an independent consultant for UNAIDS, WHO, the Graduate Institute and others. Prior to that, Khalid worked as a Press and Communications Officer in the office of the Minister of Urban Cohesion in France, and as an Administrative Officer in Gabon. Khalid holds a PhD in political science from the Institut Catholique de Paris, and held research fellowships at the Global Health Programme at the Graduate Institute (2015-16), at the Global Studies Institute at the University of Geneva (2018-2021) and a honorary fellowship at Swansea University (2016-20).
 

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Books

  • Bewley-Taylor DR, Tinasti K, Eds. (2020) Research Handbook on International Drug Policy. London: Edward Elgar Publishing
  • Buxton J, Chinery-Hesse M, Tinasti K, Eds. (2020) Drug Policies and Development: Conflict and Coexistence. Leiden: Brill | Nijhoff 
  • Tinasti K (2014) Le Gabon entre démocratie et régime autoritaire. Paris: L’Harmattan 

Peer-reviewed journals

  • Gallop G, Tinasti K (2021) Drogen- oder Politikproblem? Pragmatische Wege zur Beendigung der Prohibition. rausch – Wiener Zeitschrift für Suchttherapie
  • Ramos-Horta J, Tinasti K (2020) The World Drug Policy Problem, Interview with José Ramos-Horta. International Development Policy 
  • Tinasti K (2020) The neo-patrimonial ‘use’ of drugs in electoral processes. International Development Policy 
  • Tinasti K, Buxton J, Chinery-Hesse M (2020) Are Barriers to Sustainable Development Endogenous to Drug Control Policies? International Development Policy 
  • Tinasti K (2020) International drug control governance: Is a joint UN programme on drugs relevant? International Journal of Drug Policy
  • Snapp Z, Tinasti K, Herrera J (2019) Regulation of illegal drugs: state control and fragile institutional capacity. Journal of Illicit Economies and Development 
  • Tinasti K, Kronig-Romero N, Goulão J, Stoltenberg C, Kazatchkine M, Clark H (2019) International drug control system: the need for guiding principles for public health. The Lancet 
  • Tinasti K (2019) Towards the End of the Global War on Drugs. Brown Journal of World Affairs 
  • Tinasti K (2018) HIV and AIDS among adolescents who use drugs: opportunities for drug policy reform within the sustainable development agenda. Journal of the International AIDS Society 
  • Barbosa I, Versfeld A, Tinasti K, Terlikbayeva A (2017) Addressing deprivation of liberty, human mobility and tuberculosis in 2018. Public Health Action
  • Tinasti K, Barbosa I (2017) The influence of Global Players on the drug control system: an analysis of the role of the Russian Federation. Drugs and Alcohol Today
  • Tinasti K, Fordham A, Bewley-Taylor DR (2017) WHO and UNDP change in leadership: what views on drug policy and harm reduction? Drug Science, Policy and Law
  • Tinasti K, Ravishankar S, Zuniga JM (2016) Discrimination, HIV among people who use drugs and the UNGASS 2016 on the world drug problem. Journal of the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care
  • Tinasti K, Audoin B, Jomier B, Delfraissy JF, Lévy Y, Barré-Sinoussi F (2016) Cities central to HIV response for people who use drugs. The Lancet HIV
  • Al-Shazly F, Tinasti K (2016) Incarceration or mandatory treatment: Drug Use and the Law in MENA. International Journal of Drug Policy

Newspapers and media
    
Opinion pieces and interviews published in Le Temps, RTS Radio, Radio Cité Genève (Switzerland), The Hill (US), Le Monde, Les Echos, L’Express, L’Obs, La Croix, The Conversation (France), L’Economiste, TelQuel, AlAhdat AlMaghribyia, 2M TV, Al Aoula TV, Médi1 TV, 2M Radio, Atlantic Radio, MAP, Médias24 (Morocco), Daily Maverick (South Africa), Millennium (Italy), Daily Star (Bangladesh), L’Orient-Le Jour (Lebanon), Der Standard (Austria), Modern Ghana (Ghana), HuffPost Maghreb, EUobserver, Jeune Afrique and Southeast Asia Globe.  

Reports and policy analysis

  • Blickman T, Tinasti K (2021) Drug Policy and City Government. Global Commission on Drug Policy
  • Tinasti K (2019) 实现可持续发展的毒品政策 (Drug Policies to Achieve Sustainable Development), Annual Report on International Drug Control. David F. Musto Center for Drugs and National Security Studies, Shanghai University
  • Husbands R, Tinasti K, Podlekareva D (2019) Drug Policy and Deprivation of Liberty. Global Commission on Drug Policy
  • Nougier M, Tinasti K (2018) Drug Policy and the Sustainable Development Agenda. Global Commission on Drug Policy
  • Tinasti K (2018) Cannabis and the drug law in Tunisia: A reform rooted in social justice claims. Global Drug Policy Observatory, Swansea University 
  • Tinasti K (2016) Brazil and francophone Africa, opportunities and challenges. BRICS Policy Center - Igarapé Institute 
  • Tinasti K (2015) UNGASS 2016 on the world drug problem: Involving the Geneva-based international organizations in the global drug policies debate. Global Health Programme, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
  • Matlin SA, Told M, Tinasti K (2015) Time to Revisit Drug Policies: Towards the UNGA Special Session on Drugs. A Brief for Policy-Makers. Global Health Programme, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies  
  • Ball AL, Tinasti K (2014) HIV, Universal Health Coverage and the Post-2015 Development Agenda. World Health Organization
  • Tinasti K, Burzynski R (2013) Meeting the HIV treatment and health needs of gay men and other men who have sex with men. Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)