Lead Contributors
Daleth’s Lead Contributors bring together the researchers and experts who shape its research agenda and applied work. They combine academic rigor with policy and operational experience to support institutions and organizations addressing complex challenges related to drugs, organized crime, governance, and development. Drawing on interdisciplinary expertise, they develop Daleth's research projects, and contribute expert dialogue, and advisory engagements across contexts.
Deborah Alimi
Founder of Daleth Research, Deborah Alimi is a researcher and policy consultant specializing in global drug policy, organized crime, and sustainable development. Trained in development cooperation, rule of law, and anti-corruption (OECD, Development Results), she has spent the past decade unpacking the complexity of global drug policy-making, and examining how illicit economies intersect with sustainable development, human rights, and governance structures.
Alongside her research work, Deborah advises governmental and intergovernmental organisations — including UNODC, OHCHR, the European Union, the World Bank and bilateral donors — providing research, policy analysis, and programme evaluations, with a strong focus on policy coherence and institutional accountability.
She is an expert member of the UN Expert Group on Alternative Development and contributes to leading networks, including the Steering committee of the ECPR Standing Group on Organised Crime and the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime. She also leads the workstream on Drugs, Development, and Human Rights within the EHESS/Inserm Drugs, social sciences and society program.
Deborah holds a PhD in Political Science from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and an MA in Democracy and Governance from Georgetown University.
Thomas Dournon
Thomas Dournon is a strategic intelligence consultant specializing in the business climate and political and security risk. He has worked with international organizations such as the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), research centers, and the private sector in the MENA region and Europe.
Thomas is also the Director of the Executive Master's program at the École de Guerre Economique (School of Economic Warfare) – Rabat campus. He teaches strategic analysis and the geopolitical implications of international sanctions and frameworks for combating corruption and terrorist financing.
Thomas holds an Executive Master's degree in Strategic Intelligence from the École de Guerre Economique (School of Economic Warfare) – Paris, and a Master's degree in International Affairs from Lyon 3 University, focusing on the analysis of security threats in the MENA region. He also holds training certificates in radicalization prevention from the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM), and a certificate in organized crime financing and illicit trade from the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI).
Ina Kubbe
Ina Kubbe is a Professor at Tel Aviv University, in the School of Political Science, Government and International Affairs, where she primarily conducts research and teaches in the areas of corruption and countering corruption, cybercrime, gender politics and conflict resolution. Ina is also a professor at the International Anti-Corruption Academy in Austria.
She has more than 15 years of experience in these areas and has established herself as a recognized expert and academic specialist. Ina is one of the founding members of the Interdisciplinary Corruption Research Network (ICRN) and Chair of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Standing Group on “(Anti-)Corruption and Integrity”.
She regularly provides consultancy services to organizations such as the European Union, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.