Dr John Collins is Executive Director of the International Drug Policy Unit (IDPU) at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), a Fellow of the LSE US Centre and ...view moreDr John Collins is Executive Director of the International Drug Policy Unit (IDPU) at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), a Fellow of the LSE US Centre and a Distinguished Visiting Fellow of the Yale Centre for the Study of Globalization. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Illicit Economies and Development (LSE Press). He is currently a Co-Investigator on a Global Challenges Research Fund project examining illicit drug economies in the borderlands of Myanmar, Afghanistan and Colombia, and Project Investigator on a major Open Society Foundations Institutional Support grant focusing on drugs and sustainable development. He earned a PhD from the Department of International History at the London School of Economics looking at Anglo-American relations and international drug control over the period 1939–1964.view less