David R. Bewley-Taylor, PhD, FRSA Department of Political and Cultural Studies School of Arts and Humanities Swansea University Wales, UK Dr. Bewley-Taylor is Director of the American Studies Programme at Swansea University, where his main areas of research and publication are US drug policy, the UN and international drug policy, various aspects of US politics and government, and surveillance in American urban settings. In the spring of 2006 Dr. Bewley-Taylor was a Visiting Scholar at the Australian Health Policy Institute at the University of Sydney. He is currently on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Drug Policy, the Human Rights Journal, and is a member of the International Advisory Committee for the International Centre on Human Rights and Drug Policy. Dr. Bewley-Taylor has collaborated with a range of drug policy organizations beyond academia, including the Beckley Foundation Drug Policy Programme, the International Drug Policy Consortium, and the Transnational Institute’s Drugs and Democracy Programme. In 2004, he was the recipient of a Swansea University Distinguished Teaching Award and was awarded grants for drug policy research projects by the Leverhulme Trust and the J. Paul Getty Jr. Charitable Trust in 2005 and 2007 respectively.