Speaking on International law and conventions
Khalid Tinasti is a Visiting Lecturer at the Geneva Graduate Institute and a Research Associate at its Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding. He is also a Visiting Fellow at the International Center on Drug Policy Studies at Shanghai University, and an Advisor to the drugs program at PAX Sapiens Foundation. He is the former Head of Secretariat of the Climate Overshoot Commission, and the former Director of the Global Commission on Drug Policy. Earlier, he worked as a consultant, as a Press and Communications Officer in the office of the Minister of Urban Cohesion (ministère de la Ville) in France, and as an Executive Officer in Gabon. Khalid holds a PhD in political science from the Institut Catholique de Paris, and held research and teaching fellowships at the Global Studies Institute at the University of Geneva. He is a member of the UN Expert Panel on the international drug control system.