Gilles BEULLIER

Dr. Gilles Beullier is a French (M.D.), Paediatrician and Victimologist, with the Gabriel Martin Hospital Centre (St-Paul, La Réunion, France). A fellow of the “Comité de Pilotage de l’Unité régionale de Victimologie de La Réunion”, he has been developing the hospital’s capacity to welcome and take charge of sexually abused children. As a member of the Réseau Asie “French-speaking experts network on Asia”, French National Center for Scientific Research, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme de Paris, and Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris), he contributed to several scientific books on inter-cultural psycho-criminology and victimology. He worked in Africa as a consultant for World Health Organization and also collaborated with several NGOs involved in human trafficking issues in Southeast Asia, such as Friends International (Phnom Penh, Cambodia). He is a co-founder, with Pierre Le Roux, of the International Observatory on Slavery and Human Trade. As a consultant, he travels to Southeast Asia yearly to assist NGOs working to prevent pedophilia, child prostitution, abuse and trafficking. In 2007, he published “Pédophilie et inceste à l’île de la Réunion” in Ph. Bessoles (ed.) : Criminalité et récidive. Evaluation. Clinique. Thérapeutique. Interculturel, Grenoble, Presses de l’Université de Grenoble.