Antoine Perret

Civil Society Organisation (CSO) Development Manager 

Dr. Antoine Perret joined ICoCA in a newly created role as Civil Society Organisation (CSO) Development Manager. His remit is to grow the Civil Society Pillar and support CSO Members, developing capacity for effective accountability mechanisms and advocating for responsible private security. Prior to joining ICoCA, Antoine worked at the Business and Security Division at the Geneva Center for Security Governance (DCAF) managing projects and leading research on private security governance. Before that, he was based in Panama working on anti-money laundering and terrorism financing and leading a regional project on mapping organized crime activities in Latin America. Antoine started his career in academic circles as associate researcher at Universidad de Los Andes (Bogota, Colombia); research fellow at Columbia University (New York, USA), and American University (Washington DC, USA). He taught at Universidad Externado de Colombia and collaborated with UN agencies on security and human rights issues.

Antoine holds a PhD in law and LLM from the European University Institute (Florence, Italy); a Master in International Affairs from Universidad Externado de Colombia (Bogota, Colombia) – in collaboration with Columbia University and Science Po, Paris; and a License in International Relations from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. He has published several books and articles on private security regulation.