Antonio Nicaso is an award-winning journalist, a bestselling author and an internationally recognized expert on organized crime.He has written several books on the subject and is best known for having published, for the first time, the "Mafia's Code." His books have been translated in French, English, Hungarian, Dutch and Indonesian. He has been a key speaker at various sysmposia in Canada, the United States, Italy, France and Australia. He sits on the Advisory Board of the Nathanson Centre for the Study of Organized Crime and Corruption at York University (Toronto), and on the Governing Council of The Alliance Against Contraband in Geneva, Switzerland. Frequently quoted by the media, Nicaso has been interviewed by print and broadcast journalists around the world as a Mafia expert. He is also the co-editor of Corriere Canadese-Tandem, the Italian Daily Newspaper in Toronto. Highlights from his list of publications include: Alle origini della 'ndrangheta: la picciotteria (1990); Gli usurpatori e gli usurpati (1990); Deadly Silence: Canadian Mafia Murders (1993); 'Ndranghete: le filiali della mafia calabrese (1994); Io e la mafia: le verità di Giulio Andreotti (1995); Global Mafia: The New World Order of Organized Crime (1995), which has been translated in French (Dans les coulisses du crime organisé: le rôle stratégique du Canada à l'aube du 21e siècle, 1996), Dutch (De wereldwijde maffia: de nieuwe wereldorde van de georganiseerde misdaad, 1996), Hungarian (A maffia: A szervezett bûnözés új világrendszere, 1997), and Indonesian. Nicaso is also a contributing author to the following volumes: Utopia e rivoluzione in Calabria: scritti in onore di Enzo Misefari (1993), and Un'altra Calabria: lo sviluppo della regione nelle idee dei calabresi della diaspora (1997).