Benoît Gomis is a researcher and lecturer on illicit trade (in legal and illegal drugs) and terrorism.

He is a Lecturer at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on the ‘Illicit Trade in Drugs’, ‘The Tobacco Industry Playbook’, ‘Researching Terrorism’, and ‘Terrorism and Counterterrorism in Western Europe’, and supervises Capstone Seminar and Experiential Course projects on global security and peace, conflict, and justice.

He is a Research Consultant with the Tobacco Control Research Group at the University of Bath, where he researches the illicit tobacco trade and the tobacco industry, and with the University of Toronto’s Leslie Dan School of Pharmacy, where he researches how pharmaceutical industry activities influence public trust and vaccine acceptability. In an independent capacity, he has worked with a number of organizations including governments, think tanks, NGOs, companies, and universities. Benoît is an Associate Fellow with the International Security Programme at Chatham House, a member of the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC)’s Network of Experts and of the North America Strategic Platform on Organized Crime (between the Munk School and GI-TOC), and a frequent contributor to Jane’s Intelligence Review, World Politics Review, and Tobacco Tactics.

He has authored over 130 papers, reports, and briefings, and one book. He was educated at Sciences Po in Aix-en-Provence, Loyola University Chicago, and the London School of Economics and Political Science.