Louise Shelley

Louise Isobel Shelley (born 1952) is a university professor and Omer L. and Nancy Hirst Endowed Chair at the Schar School of Policy and International Affairs at George Mason University in Virginia. She is also founder and executive director of the Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TraCCC).{{cite news |last1=Hudson |first1=Michael |last2=Stănescu |first2=Ionuț |last3=Adler-Bell |first3=Sam |author1-link=Michael Hudson (reporter) |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/how-new-york-real-estate-became-dumping-ground-worlds-dirty-money/ |title=How New York Real Estate Became a Dumping Ground for the World’s Dirty Money. Shady magnates and corrupt politicians from all over the globe are stashing their ill-gotten wealth in luxurious Manhattan apartments. |work=The Nation |date=July 3, 2014 |access-date=21 January 2021 |archive-date=November 11, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201111172009/https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/how-new-york-real-estate-became-dumping-ground-worlds-dirty-money/}} Since 2023, Shelley has served as a Global Advisor for the ACE Global Leaders of Excellence Network.{{Cite web |title=Dr Louise L Shelley {{!}} ACE Health Foundation. Greater Washington, DC |url=https://www.acehealthfoundation.org/dr-louise-shelley/ |access-date=2024-01-29 |website=www.acehealthfoundation.org |language=en}}

Before joining the George Mason University in 2007, she was professor at the American University since 1986.

Shelley's most recent book, Dark Commerce: How a New Illicit Economy Is Threatening Our Future was published by Princeton University Press in 2018. She also published Dirty Entanglements: Crime, Corruption, and Terrorism (Cambridge University Press, 2014), Human Trafficking: A Global Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2010), Policing Soviet Society (Routledge, 1996), Lawyers in Soviet Worklife and Crime and Modernization, as well as numerous articles and book chapters on all aspects of terrorism, transnational crime and corruption.

In 1975,[https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/63041565/ Page 3], "The Bennington Banner", Bennington, VT, 26 June 1975. Retrieved 2016-12-02. she married the State Department analyst and Kremlinologist Donald E. Graves, with whom she had two childrenJoseph Cress. [http://cumberlink.com/news/local/remembering-mr-x/article_3ef9b0de-471f-5777-8fbc-438be482e657.html "Remembering Mr. X"], "The Sentinental", Carlisle, PA, 18 August 2008. Retrieved on 2016-12-02. before the marriage was dissolved.