Bruce Bagley

Biography Bagley is the co-author with Jonathan Rosen of Drug Trafficking, Organized Crime and Violence in the Americas Today, published in 2015.

Bagley has done consultancy work for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), for the U.S. Government, including the Department of State, Department of Defense, Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Drug Enforcement Administration, and for governments of Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Panama, and Mexico on issues related to drug trafficking, money laundering, and public security. From 1991 to 1995, Bagley was the associate dean of the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Miami under Ambler H. Moss. At the University of Miami, he took part on numerous dissertation committees. Previously he was a comparative politics professor at Johns Hopkins.

Bagley has testified before the U.S. Congress on matters related to Latin America on numerous occasions, and has also appeared in U.S. federal court as an expert witness on drug trafficking and organized crime in Latin America.

In November 2019, Bagley was charged with laundering about US$2.5 million in deposits from overseas accounts that were controlled by Alex Saab. He was placed on administrative leave by the University of Miami.

Bagley lives in Coral Gables, Florida.

Publications Drug Trafficking and Organized Crime in the Americas: Major Trends in the Twenty-First Century, Latin American Program, Woodrow Wilson Center, 2012 International Relations in Latin America, with Betty Horwitz, Taylor & Francis, 2013 Drug Trafficking, Organized Crime and Violence in the Americas Today, with Jonathan Rosen, University Press of Florida, 2015